St. John’s City Council has approved a proposal to turn the Georgestown Inn into a recognized heritage building.
The owners of 50 Bonaventure Avenue are hoping the designation can help them with renovations and marketing and expanding their bed and breakfast business according to Councillor Maggie Burton.
(Interior photo of the Georgestown Inn.)
The owners are hoping to offer an English “proper High Tea” with scones, cucumber sandwiches, cakes, tarts, cookies and tea.
The house, known as “Raheen”—an Irish word meaning “a peoples’ place”—was built in 1905 for Charles O’Neill Conroy who worked with the Reid Newfoundland Company. DR Thistle, who helped raise funds for the Sunshine Rotary Park, lived at the home in the 1950s, and the Presentation Sisters moved there in the 1970s and owned it until the current owners purchased it last year.
