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The Prescott shares a reputation with The Lafayette House in the Byward Market as the oldest licensed drinking establishment in Ottawa. Originally called The Preston Hotel (it stopped renting rooms in 1978), the establishment was re-baptized The Prescott in 1941, it is held, in recognition of its status as the last watering hole between Ottawa and the town of Prescott, 100 kilometres down the Prescott Highway. This fact also earned it the moniker “The Last Chance.”
Cars, trucks and heavy transports bustle down the busy thoroughfare known as Preston Street / Corso Italia, in Ottawa, Canada. A vital link between country and city, a highway link between the province of Quebec and Ontario industry, here the traffic is often deafening, swallowing up the street in rush-hour madness.
The Preston Street area is such a distinctive neighbourhood. The uninspired architecture is at first overpowering for its drabness. This, of course, is the first superficial view of an outsider. Little on the street can be cited as distinctive with any unanimity. But there is an historical building on Preston Street that is not only the oldest on the streetscape, but contains, perhaps, one of its most controversial, yet most relevant, stories. That building is The Prescott.
Most agree that the building, located at the corner of Beech and Preston Street, is one of the area’s oldest structures, and probably the most stable anchor and visible point of orientation in the hierarchy of the Preston streetscape.
Founded in 1934 by partners Giuseppe Costantini and Antonio Disipio, the hotel was the result of a local petition to City Hall for a bar license. But securing such a license required rentable rooms for eventual stay-overs; and so the Prescott Hotel was born. Once the government charter permitting liquor in the hotel was acquired, the location quickly established itself as a cornerstone of the community, a favourite spot for the locals, as both Costantini and Disipio proved themselves able hosts and entrepreneurs. Business was good and the future seemed secure, so little did they suspect that life on Preston Street was soon to change forever.
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