The Panet House - Ottawa, Ontario
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The Panet House, currently the Embassy of Angola, was built in 1876 by Colonel Charles-Eugène Panet. It is located on Laurier Avenue, in Ottawa.
Waymark Code: WMGAMN
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 02/06/2013
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"Panet House was built in 1876 by Colonel Charles-Eugène Panet, the Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence. In 1915, another owner added a third storey and converted the house to apartments.
Panet House was purchased by the city of Ottawa in 1965 when plans were being made to raze the property in order to accommodate the proposed King Edward Expressway. These plans, however, were abandoned. In 1975, the city proposed replacing it with a fire station. Heritage groups objected to this and eventually, the new station was built across the street. On September 21, 1983, City Council declared it to be a heritage building. In 1986 it was sold to developers who restored it. In 1986, the house became part of the King Edward Avenue Heritage Conservation District.
For a time, it was occupied by the Canadian Conference of the Arts before being purchased by the Government of Angola in the late 1990s."
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