Then: Victoria Park Restaurant

The Refectory Restaurant at Victoria Park opened in 1904. It was a Swiss chalet-style building, constructed from boulder stone hewn from the bed of the Niagara River. Not long after, the Niagara Parks Administration established offices there, in what is known as the Commissioners' Quarters. Later, the Refectory became known as the Victoria Park Restaurant. Legend has it that there were (and still are) ghostly sightings at the Commissioners' Quarters – a man dressed in a tuxedo, and a well-dressed woman in late nineteenth-century formalwear.

Now: Queen Victoria Place Restaurant

Today, the restaurant is known as Queen Victoria Place Restaurant. The original chalet structure is still visible behind the modern superstructure of the current establishment.

Niagara Falls Public Library. 2017. Niagara Falls - Then & Now: A Photographic Journey Through The Years. Victoria Park Restaurant/Queen Victoria Place Restaurant

Niagara Falls Then and Now
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Niagara Falls Museums - Niagara Falls Public Library - Dept. of Geography and Tourism Studies,Brock University.
Original newspaper series by Sherman Zavitz, Official Historian for the City of Niagara Falls from 1994 - 2019.

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