Kennedy's Hotel, St. Andrews
The best of St. Andrews' business hotels, Kennedy's Hotel was erected on the ashes of the old Railroad Hotel site in 1881 and has served the Town faithfully and well ever since. Actually, Kennedy's Hotel is the third incarnation of the business. Angus Kennedy, a native of Ontario, established the first Kennedy's Hotel in 1869 at the corner of Water and Frederick Streets but soon moved to the corner of Water and Augustus. As the town's reputation as a scenic vacation spot for visitors from the upper reaches of the Province expanded, and visitors came down the St. Andrews and Quebec Railroad to breathe the healthy sea air, so did the business of Mr. Kennedy's hostelry. The Hotel expanded several times in response to increased summer traffic until it burned in the summer of 1879. After a few years purgatory at downtown locations, Mr. Kennedy rebuilt on the site of the old Railroad Hotel, which had burned in 1874. The Hotel opened at the same time as the Argyll, and might perhaps have been viewed as the Argyll's poor cousin, inasmuch as it was a somewhat plainer version of the other. But the Hotel was well built. It was remarked on many decades after its construction that in the entire interval the structure was so finely made that not a single adjustment had ever had to be made to a window or door.