Charlottetown covers a land area of 42.6 sq km (16.5 sq mi). One of the most famous buildings in the city is Province House, site of the 1864 Charlottetown Conference and home to the provincial legislature of Prince Edward Island. Province House has been declared a national historic site.
Near Charlottetown Harbour and next to Province House is the Confederation Centre of the Arts, which was built in 1963 to commemorate the Charlottetown Conference. The arts center was financed by gifts from all the provinces of Canada and a grant from the federal government. It houses a theater, museum, art gallery, and library. It is also the site of the Charlottetown Summer Festival, which each year produces a musical, Anne of Green Gables, based on the novel by local author Lucy Maud Montgomery, as well as other Canadian plays. The festival began in 1965.
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