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C.A. MacQuarrie House

51 Queen Street, Truro, Nouvelle-Écosse, B2N, Canada

Reconnu formellement en: 1999/01/08

C. A. MacQuarrie House, south elevation, 2004; Heritage Division, NS Dept. of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2004
Front elevation
C. A. MacQuarrie House, porch detail, 2004; Heritage Division, NS Dept. of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2004
Porch detail
C. A. MacQuarrie House, central bay and dormer, 2004; Heritage Division, NS Dept. of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2004
Central bay with Shingle dormer

Autre nom(s)

C.A. MacQuarrie House
51 Queen Street

Liens et documents

Date(s) de construction

1889/01/01

Inscrit au répertoire canadien: 2004/10/04

Énoncé d'importance

Description du lieu patrimonial

This two-storey wood frame residence is located at 51 Queen Street in Truro, NS in the urban core of the town. It is an elaborated American Foursquare house, with its simple square plan, hipped roof with broad eaves, and symmetrical façade. The gabled entrance porch has turned supports and spindles, and the projecting central bay extends into a pedimented dormer with unusual side walls, clearly influenced by the Shingle style. The designation includes the building and surrounding property.

Valeur patrimoniale

Historical Value

This house is valued for its association with C.A. MacQuarrie, a locally prominent pharmacist who moved to Truro from Pictou and established a drugstore on Prince Street in the 1920s. MacQuarrie’s business still exists, and has expanded province-wide under the guidance of his son and grandson.

The house is valued too for its association with James Little (1835-1905), a teacher at the Colchester County Academy and an amateur meteorologist, whose generous bequests are still benefiting students and local churches a century after his death.

Architectural Value

The house is also valued as an excellent example of the American Foursquare style of architecture. Its layered “wedding cake” façade and unusual dormer have made the house a local landmark.

Source: Planning Department, Town of Truro, file 10MNS0024

Éléments caractéristiques

Elements that define the building’s external heritage character include:
- basic American Foursquare form and massing;
- hip roofed entrance porch with turned supports and spindle railings, and an intersecting gable front with textured shingles;
- angled central bay over the porch stepped upward and back into a pedimented gable dormer, with Shingle style textured walls supporting the eave overflights on the dormer;
- narrow double-sashed windows with wide corbelled mouldings and matching door surrounds;
- wooden cladding, with trim elements painted in a contrasting colour.

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

1999/01/08

Données sur l'histoire

Date(s) importantes

s/o

Thème - catégorie et type

Économies en développement
Commerce et affaires
Établir une vie sociale et communautaire
L'éducation et le bien-être de la société

Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction

Actuelle

Historique

Résidence
Logement unifamilial

Architecte / Concepteur

s/o

Constructeur

s/o

Informations supplémentaires

Emplacement de la documentation

Planning Department, Town of Truro, PO Box 427, Truro, NS B2N 5C5; file 10MNS0024

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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.

10MNS0024

Statut

Édité

Inscriptions associées

s/o

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