C.A. MacQuarrie House
51 Queen Street, Truro, Nouvelle-Écosse, B2N, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
1999/01/08
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
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
10MNS0024
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
s/o