Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Pugwash Train Station
Pugwash, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- train station
- Notice of registration date
- 30 December 2009
- Civic address
- 10222 Durham Street
- Community
- Pugwash
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.84977, -63.66074
- File number
- Prov_file_279
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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 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Queens and Kings, Prince Edward Island (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its unique architectural style; it is one of two brick stations designed by Sir Sanford Fleming; its association with Canada's first rail stystem and its location reflecting changes to the industrial landscape/context. Character defining elements: original site, form and its one-and-one half storey massing; red brick construction materials; bargeboard on front and side eave and front dormer edge; wood trim; steeply-pitched gable roof; small dormer with truncated gables; front gable decorated with truss; fenestration including its tall, narrow windows and transom over doors with slightly curved arch in top frame of windows and doors; protruding corbelled voussoirs create hoods over several windows and transom over doors; and one-storey luggage room attached on the west side.
Nearby in the register
- Acadia Lodge No. 13 A.F. & A.M.lodgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.