Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Amherst Dominion Public Building
Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1934
- Decade built
- 1930-1939
- Architect/designer
- Leslie R. Fairn
- Builder
- Rhodes, Curry & Company
- Notice of registration date
- 15 September 2004
- Civic address
- 98 Victoria Street
- Community
- Amherst
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.83426, -64.21275
- File number
- Prov_file_258
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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
it is architecturally significant because it relates to prominent Nova Scotia architect Leslie R. Fairn and to the Beaux Art design, front facade, made of light coloured sandstone, with six immense fluted ionic columns of granite with moulded caps and are surmounded by a Greek cornice featuring carved medallions and trygliph, the cornice is surmounted by a plain parapet, has 2 sets of bronze doors and a clockface; culturally significant for its role as the area post office for approx. 40 years; and contextually significant for being on its original site and part of a prime historic streetscape in the Town of Amherst.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Amherst Dominion Public Building include:
- two-storey front section of sandstone construction;
- one-storey rear section of brick construction;
- symmetrical front façade;
- six fluted ionic granite columns on the front façade having moulded caps and surmounted by a Greek cornice featuring carved medallions and tryglyphs;
- bronze doors and a bronze marquee surmounted by a large clockface with a decorative metal dial on the left side of the front façade;
- prominent location at the streetline on East Victoria Street.
Nearby in the register
- Old Amherst Post Officepublicunder 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.