ruins of a Kingston church

As a result of the earthquake, and the fire that followed, much of Kingston suffered terrible destruction. Among the structures damaged, often beyond repair, were many old and familiar buildings. Below is a selection of the pictures I have been able to find of some of those buildings.

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Public Buildings	Post Office building on Harbour Street	Theatre Royal on North Parade	Bank on Harbour Street under guard	Victoria Market at the bottom of King Street.
Religious buildings	Kingston Parish Church on South Parade	Old Calabar Baptist Chapel on East Queen Street	The Synagogue on Duke Street built in 1888	Holy Trinity Roman Catholic church on Duke Street
Educational buildings	unidentified High School building	Mico College built in the mid-1890s
Hotels/clubs	Constant Spring Hotel	Streadwick's Marine Gardens, residential hotel, next door to the Myrtle Bank Hotel, on Harbour Street.	Myrtle Bank Hotel on Harbour Street	Jamaica Club on Hanover Street
Houses	Marble Hall in Rae Town	York House on Slipe Pen Road southwest of the Race Course	on Duke Street	damaged houses
Streets	Harbour Street	street off West Street	Port Royal Street	street in Kingston
Stores	soldiers guarding stores	the King Street/HarbourStreet crossing.	Machado's Cigar Store	destroyed stores downtown
Transport	Railway Station	burnt out street car	Royal Mail Line offices
		Even Queen Victoria's statue was shaken by the 'quake and stirred on its plinth . . . but somehow retained its footing!	Queen Victoria's statue on Parade

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