The Exhibition is a

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Bootham Bootham is a street in the city of York, England, leading north out of the city centre. It is also the name of the small district surrounding the street. History The street runs along a ridge of slightly higher ground east of the River Ouse, Yo ...

, a street leading north from the city centre of

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, in England. The building was constructed in the late 18th century, as a large house. At the time, the Bird in Hand pub operated further south on the street, next to

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. It was demolished in 1835, when the bar's

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was pulled down, and rebuilt across the road, on the corner of

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. In 1879, the new pub was also demolished, to make way for Exhibition Square. It then relocated to its current building, which had six or seven bedrooms, two bars, a coffee room, a sitting room, and a kitchen. It was renamed the Exhibition Hotel after the Yorkshire Fine Art Exhibition. In the 1880s, it was renamed as "Churchill's Hotel", but in 1892 it was bought by

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and became the Exhibition again. In 1896, it became "Dyson's Family and Commercial Hotel", but it was still popularly known as the Exhibition, and that eventually became its official name once more. In 1967, there was a proposal to demolish the building, in order to make the city's inner ring road a dual carriageway, but the plan was soon abandoned. It was

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in 1983. The building is constructed of brick, covered in roughcast painted render, and has a slate roof. It is three storeys high, with an attic, and three bays wide. The ground floor has a 20th-century shopfront, while the upper floors have

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s, and the attic has a Venetian window. The roof has its gable facing Bootham, which is topped by a decorative semi-circle. The interior of the building has been altered throughout, but it originally had the entrance to one side, the main staircase in the middle of the building, running across its width, and two rooms at the rear, separated by a passage.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Exhibition, The Grade II listed pubs in York Bootham