Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Amherst Post Office
Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1884
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- Thomas Fuller
- Builder
- Rhodes, Curry & Company
- Notice of registration date
- 15 January 1996
- Civic address
- 50 Victoria Street
- Community
- Amherst
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.83307, -64.21346
- File number
- Prov_file_201
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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)
- 1879 · County of Kent, New Brunswick (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 building is possibly the finest example in Nova Scotia of the work of Thomas Fuller, a 19th century architect of national significance; and the building is a prominent architectural landmark in the Town of Amherst.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Gothic Revival style of the Old Amherst Post Office include:
- two-and-a-half storey stone masonry structure;
- symmetrical main façade;
- asymetrical side and rear elevations;
- front matching doors;
- two rows of Gothic Revival style windows;
- nine bay façade;
- roughly surfaced stonework with contrasting smooth mouldings;
- slate hip roof with a large Gothic dormer;
- two flanking small gable roofed dormers;
- central clock tower topped with a cupola;
- decorative details include carved floral motifs, stringcourses and dentils.
Nearby in the register
- Amherst Dominion Public Buildingpublicunder 1 mi
- Amherst Intercolonial Railway Stationrailway stationunder 1 mi
- Victoriaresidenceunder 1 mi
- Fort Lawrence Terminussite3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.