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80,000 square feet (7,000 m 2) Design and construction. Architect (s) Nathaniel McKay. Stabroek Market is the largest market of Georgetown, Guyana. Located in the centre of the capital city, the market is housed in an iron and steel structure with a prominent clock tower. Stabroek Market on a 1934 stamp of British Guiana [2] designed by Leonard ...
Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana. It is situated in Demerara-Mahaica, region 4, on the Atlantic Ocean coast, at the mouth of the Demerara River. It is nicknamed the "Garden City of the Caribbean." It is the retail, administrative, and financial services centre of the country, and the city accounts for a large portion of ...
Castellani House is a large nineteenth-century building in Georgetown, Guyana. It is on the corner of Vlissengen Road and Homestretch Avenue (by the Botanical Gardens). It was designed and constructed by the Maltese architect, Cesar Castellani, between 1879 and 1882. Originally serving as a residence for colonial government officials ...
City. Georgetown. Established. 1782. Area. • Total. 0.6 km 2 (0.25 sq mi) Stabroek was the old name of Georgetown, Guyana, between 1784 and 1812, and was the capital of Demerara. Stabroek is currently a ward in the centre of Georgetown.
Georgetown City Hall is a nineteenth-century Gothic Revival building located on the corner of Regent Street and Avenue of the Republic in Georgetown, Guyana. The building was designed by architect Reverend Ignatius Scoles in 1887, and was completed in June 1889. The building houses the offices of the Mayor, the City Council, and the City ...
St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown. St. George's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana. The church is of Gothic revival timber construction and reaches a height of 43.5 metres (143 ft). It is the seat of the Bishop of Guyana. St. George's was designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield and opened on 24 August 1892.
State House (formerly Government House) located in Georgetown, is the official residence of the president of Guyana. It was previously the official residence of the governor of British Guiana before the colony gained independence and became Guyana. The original structure was built in 1823 on a small piece of land belonging to the first Anglican ...
In 1798, it was a coffee plantation owned by Erve Weber & Co. [4] A cemetery was established there, people began to settle in Werk-en-rust, and it became an extension of Stabroek by 1799. [3] It is located south of Stabroek, [2] [3] which began as a two-mile brick road with a row of houses on each side of the road. By 1812, Werk-en-rust was one ...