Description of Historic Place

Flin Flon Museum (1934) is housed in a former
Canadian National Railway Station, originally located in downtown Flin Flon and moved to its current
location in 1983. The municipal designation applies to the building on its footprint.

Heritage Value

Flin Flon Museum is valued as a symbol of the railway and its historic importance
to northern development, and as a community museum. It is an attractive storey-and-a-half example of
a 2nd Class Canadian National Railway Station, the type of station situated in communities of notable
size. With its paired tall sash windows, broad cross-gabled hipped roof with deep bellcast eaves supported
by decorative brackets, and ornamental half-timbering in the gable front over the office, the station
is a fine surviving representative of the type.

Source: City of Flin Flon By-law No. 2013-02, 7 January
2014

Character-Defining Elements

Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of the Flin Flon Museum include:

-
the basic massing: a long rectangle covered by a low-pitched hipped shingled roof, with a gable-roofed
crossing wing terminating at the front in a shallow bay with windows on three sides, and at the rear
in a short rectangular wing; the former passenger area to the right of the projecting wing; the former
baggage and freight handling area to the left
- the light-painted stucco cladding
- the organization
of the fenestration: large window openings containing paired tall sash windows divided horizontally into
three: a square pane at the top with a larger oblong pane in the middle and small sliding ventilating
panes at the bottom
- the main passenger doorway at centre right, with freight doors to the left
- the
contrasting-coloured ornamental half-timbering in the gable front
- the deep eaves, supported by large,
decorative wooden brackets