Weymouth Trading Post (Campbell's Store)
4613 Highway Number One, Weymouth, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1990/09/23
Autre nom(s)
Weymouth Trading Post (Campbell's Store)
Campbell's Store
Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
1859/01/01 à 1863/01/01
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2004/07/23
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
Weymouth Trading Post is a three-storey, wood-framed, commercial building located in downtown Weymouth. The building is constructed on a slope and is built right up to the road. Included in the heritage designation is both the building and the building footprint of the store.
Valeur patrimoniale
Weymouth Trading Post, formerly known as Campbell’s Store, is valued as one of Nova Scotia's oldest continuously operational stores. The interior of the store serves as a time capsule for a mid-1800's mercantile store. The store has been a landmark in near original appearance for many generations of shoppers. The architectural elements and details have changed very little over its 140 years operation.
Built between 1850 and 1860, the store is also valued for its association with Colin Campbell, a leading businessman and lumber baron in Weymouth. The Mercantile Bank of Halifax signed a five-year lease for a section of this store in the late 1800's and the original safe is still used today. Campbell built this store and the property remained in the Campbell family until 1968.
Source: Built Heritage Inventory, Office of the Municipality of the District of Digby.
Éléments caractéristiques
Character-defining elements associated with the form and function of the store include such things as:
- elongated building form and massing of the store;
- 6 over 6 windows on the second storey;
- wood door set back from the facade;
- solid wood counters;
- late 1800s bank safe built beneath the staircase leading to the second storey.
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Nouvelle-Écosse
Autorité de reconnaissance
Administrations locales (N.-É.)
Loi habilitante
Heritage Property Act
Type de reconnaissance
Bien inscrit au répertoire municipal
Date de reconnaissance
1990/09/23
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
s/o
Thème - catégorie et type
- Économies en développement
- Commerce et affaires
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Commerce / Services commerciaux
- Magasin ou commerce de vente au détail
Historique
Architecte / Concepteur
s/o
Constructeur
s/o
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Built Heritage Inventory, Office of the Municipality of the District of Digby, P.O. Box 429, Digby, NS B0V 1A0
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
17MNS0003
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
s/o