Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Pictou Iron Foundry
Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- 1855
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Notice of registration date
- 21 October 1992
- Civic address
- 100 Front Street
- Community
- Pictou
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.67677, -62.70506
- File number
- Prov_file_161
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Sect. No. 2, Caribou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the buildings making up the Pictou Iron Foundry represent the best examples known for pre-Confederation industrial buildings in Nova Scotia and may be the earliest extant iron foundry buildings in the Province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Pictou Iron Foundry include:
- three buildings of brick construction; two one-storey and one two-and-a-half storey buildings, in their original configuration conducive to industrial activity;
- cut stone foundation of the blacksmith's shop;
- features common to industrial buildings of their era, including king post roof trusses, returned eaves in brick, six-over-six windows with inlaid brick arches on 102 and 106 Front Street;
- two twelve-over-twelve symmetrically-placed windows on the front façade with central entrance between them on 100 Front Street;
- shared courtyard;
- prominent location on the waterfront.
Nearby in the register
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Stella Maris Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Stella Maris Conventconventunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.