LSPU Hall, Heritage clubhouse and performance center in St. John's, Canada.

LSPU Hall on Victoria Street is a clubhouse and performance venue housed in a wooden structure with a gable roof and ornamental exposed rafter ends. The building now functions as a center for theatrical and artistic presentations in downtown St. John's.

The building stands on the site of Newfoundland's first Congregationalist Church, established in 1789. It was reconstructed multiple times following major fires that occurred throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The name LSPU Hall comes from the Longshoremen's Protective Union, which bought the building in 1912 for its union meetings; speeches and bingo nights followed. Since 1975 the Resource Centre for the Arts has run the hall as a performance venue, and artists such as Mary Walsh, Andy Jones and Rick Mercer have appeared on its stage.

You can book tickets and find event details through the Resource Centre for the Arts website or by contacting the venue directly at 3 Victoria Street. The location in downtown St. John's is walkable and easy to find along the main street.

Behind the hall's plain 1922 exterior, the remains of the 1789 Congregationalist Church's stone foundation walls still stand on the site, a detail most visitors walk past without noticing. The church was the first Congregationalist church in Newfoundland.