Temperance Hall (Grand Bank)
Temperance Hall (Grand Bank)![[Temperance Hall: Image]](050.jpg)
The Temperance Movement clearly had some standing in the Grand Bank of 1860 when this structure was built. A simple gable-roofed building, with its entry in the gable, it is typical of dissenting meeting-houses of the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. The use of the Gothic bargeboard, while tinusual in the meeting houses, should not be considered unusual in a building built in Newfoundland in 1860 when such details had become common to both public and institutional buildings. The Temperance Society granted the buildings to the Salvation Army Boy Scouts in 1971 and, in 1976, the Scouts sold the building to the Orange Lodge. The apparent intention of the Lodge was to demolish the building for a parking lot -- not a fitting end for a temperance hall, nor for one of the town's oldest buildings.