The Architectural Economy of Reform: Commerce, Class, and the Newfoundland Hotel
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Canada’s grand railway hotels are a celebrated building type. However, historians have paid little attention to the economic strictures of the hotel type in Canada, or to their role in inscribing networks of commerce and finance onto the North American landscape. This article proposes the Newfoundland Hotel as an exemplary case study to explore these networks. Born of a late nineteenth-century desire to diversify Newfoundland’s economy away from the fishery, the hotel later suffered insolvency and from the prerogatives of corporate investment interests. The building was also involved in a series of changes to the organisation of Newfoundland as a political state, which saw ownership of the hotel pass from private to public hands and elevated it from a provincial to a national concern. Designed by the preeminent Montreal firm of Ross and Macdonald in 1926, the Newfoundland Hotel attempted to consolidate a class-based vision of financial modernity in a resource-dependent economy. In discussing the hotel’s construction, use and demolition, this essay explores how a series of contestations over class, culture and nationhood were manifest in the project’s turbulent financial affairs. It highlights the need to study the financial history of buildings alongside their material and social features to understand more fully how economic pressures shape the valuation of buildings over time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".