When it was built in 1854, the Central Business District building now home to the Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery and Nina Compton’s Compère Lapin was a coffee warehouse. Later, as the hotel’s name indicates, it was indeed a chandlery supplying wholesale goods to the shipping industry. In some ways, the new coffee program […]
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