Booth House is a prominent

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building in

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, Canada located at 252 Metcalfe Street, just south of Somerset in

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. The house was built by lumber baron John R. Booth in 1906, and it was designed by John W.H. Watts, who did a number of other Ottawa buildings. It remained in the Booth family until 1947, when it then became home of the Laurentian Club, one of Ottawa's leading

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s. The club closed in 2000, however, and the property was bought by

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to house its academic-internship program, the Laurentian Leadership Centre. It now houses Trinity Western students who are interning in various governmental, cultural, business, journalistic, or non-governmental offices. In 1990, the building was designated a

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