St. John's, Canada · 1892Great Fire of St. John'sDowntown and the cathedral gone in one evening, from a pipe. How did it beat every stone wall?On 8 July 1892 a dropped pipe in a stable started a fire that took the cathedral and the Water Street and Duckworth Street businesses.
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Burned and Rebuilt? · Rome, Italy
Great Fire of Rome
The open question
The fire took the old town, and something grander went up within a few years. Who had the money, the masons and the stone ready that fast?
On the record
In the aftermath of the fire, nearly three quarters of Rome had been destroyed (10 out of 14 districts). He rebuilt much of the destroyed area and had the ostentatious building complex known as Domus Aurea (Golden House) built, his personal residence, replacing the Domus Transitoria and including an extension of about 2.5 km2, which came to include the Palatine, the slopes of the Esquiline (Opium) and part of the Celio.
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