Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Amherst Intercolonial Railway Station
Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- railway station
- Notice of registration date
- 16 January 2020
- Civic address
- 27 Station Street
- Community
- Amherst
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.83049, -64.21257
- File number
- Prov_file_309
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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
its age, built between 1907 & 1908, assocation with the Intercolonial Railway Company, one of Canada's 1st crown corporations; & the building's architecture. Prominent location on Statin Street in Amherst; form and massing 1½ storey building in red sandstone in broken courses with a steep-hipped roof; romanedque Revival architecture with stone chimney stacks; arched tripartite masonry openings with double doors at all public entranceways; prominent molded cornice above the platform canopy, with deep shadow lines created by projecting courses of masonry; the projecting operator's bay on the southwest facing facade, complete with a pyramidal roof and 3 bayed arched windows on the 2nd floor; projecting bay on the northeast facing facade, complete with a gabled roof and 3 bayed arched windows on the 2nd floor; dormer windows with stepped detailing and gabled roofs on each of the facades; roofed canopy surrounding the building supported by large wooden brackets and chamfered scissor brackets resting on stone corbels; random placement of window and door openings including the 3 bayed arched window sets (some with central doorways) along the ground floor.
Nearby in the register
- Old Amherst Post Officepublicunder 1 mi
- Amherst Dominion Public Buildingpublicunder 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.