The site of the current NaN Embassy was originally a wooden building built in 1887 as an “Embassy of Avalon” by a shyster called Mr Baltimore who claimed rights to the Palatinate of Avalon located on Newfoundland during the 1600s. Mr Baltimore’s credentials proved fake after he used city funds to upgrade the site to the current building, modeled on the British Legation of Sofia, Bulgaria, after 1908.