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Local Amenities. Property Details. Are you looking for a project? This large 2 story home set in the wonderful community of Port Maitland, may be the project for you! The Putnam-Frieze House is now located back further than the main house on the Springhurst property facing the Shubenacadie River.
It is in close proximity to the wooden carriage house. Springhurst and the Putnam-Frieze House are located on a working farmstead with a kitchen garden and surrounded by an orchard.
Source: Provincial Heritage Program property files, no. Character-defining elements relating to the Picturesque style of the main house at Springhurst include:. Nova Scotia. Province of Nova Scotia. Heritage Property Act. Provincially Registered Property. Harris Reid and Sons. Provincial Heritage Program property files, no.
The Bulmer House is a simple one-and-one-half storey wood frame structure with wood clapboard, tin…. Built on a…. South elevation, Putnam-Frieze House. Front elevation, main building, Springhurst.
Heritage Value The main house at Springhurst is valued as it is an excellent example of the Picturesque style with its fine exterior and decorative interior woodwork. Character-Defining Elements Character-defining elements relating to the Picturesque style of the main house at Springhurst include: - building form and massing; - two-and-a-half storey wood construction; - steeply pitched gable roof with three high gables on the front elevation; - two symmetrically placed central chimneys; - central heating system with a coal furnace and hot water pipes covered by an ornamental iron grillwork, depicting animals and flowers; - marble-topped fireplaces; - two pineapple carvings at the base of the arch in the central hallway; - one-storey wooden addition in the rear of the main building; - wooden barn addition in the rear of the one-storey wooden addition.
In fact some of them I had to get second hand from dad in the car later because between the 5 of us we had a couple conversations going on at once. We had a picture showing the old gas station on the main street, and the older man said it is right here. That is where the sign was. Every day after school, he had to join his dad at the gas station and had to start right to work on repairing the big stack of broken tires.
He said they had built 3 runways, and they were in a triangle pattern from the gravel pit. He had to repair all of their tires. Dad said he must have been one strong son of a gun to repair all those tires, and he said he was! It was such a treat!! He said when Grandpa was there, there would have been an old snowmobile in front of the gas station with a airplane propeller on the front of it.
I said the photos show all the beams inside the hangar were all wood and they were all labelled with a number so they could, assumingly, be put back together. That is when he got a sparkle in his eye and a grin and said I have one of those beams. I came across it just the other week!
We all chuckled thinking it would be like a jigsaw puzzle missing the last piece when it got back to Holland! He said the entire big building was made of wood, and it was all fastened with bolts. He said there was big plans for the airport, but after the war, nothing was done. He said after the war the troops came back and the barracks were used as a retraining facility.
Most of the buildings in the photos he could recognize. Some of them had been moved. It looks like the men, or some of them, were staying in it.
Then the older man had to rush off for his lunch. It was getting too close to the cliff and was in danger. Look at the old road sign:. But then on our way home, not too far from Maitland, we spotted one! It was in a yard, that looked like a little working steam generated museum.
It was hooked to a big spin wheel and steam power with pipes coming off. I should have taken a photo. Luckily the fellow has a website! So here is what I spotted! Everything worked out so perfect.
Weather was perfect, and everything else fell into place. Meeting those 3 people. Spotting that steam boiler. And then an owl! Dad said just a couple weeks ago he was lamenting that he had never taken a good picture of an owl. Just past Maitland, maybe 15 minutes or so, there was his owl. Sitting on the top of a spruce tree. We spotted and Dad was able to take many photos, progressively upgrading his camera lens.
There has been so much interest in the older photos I have of Maitland, Nova Scotia. They dismantled 5 hangars and a drill hall in Maitland, and two hangars in Yarmouth.
It was February when they were in Maitland. He also mentioned how he regretted that he had to dismantle such magnificent buildings in Maitland. In both towns, they were billeted in boarding houses with other men from their Dutch crew. If you recognize any, please let me know! Hi lisa Tom was out on his motor bike today and ended up visiting your mom.
She told him ablaut your blog so I am reading it to him tonight!!! Very cool for you to meet those older people who were there when he would have been there. How cool is that , Plus we love the old pictures versus new pictures, Very good!!!!
Hey Lisa, just getting caught up on your blog entries. Unlikely that you know, but my dad started a journal after he had his stoke and there are some detailed stories about jjis time in Nova Scotia when Grandpa Verkley was there too.
The journal is in Dutch mostly but if you feel there might be some value and interest for you, we could translate it for you! Trudy I would love to read a translation!!
I treasure them so much. Will my blog be read decades from now? That would be funny. I will get the journal from Mom this weekend and start translating.
Stay tuned…. Also will see if there are any pictures I can share with you as well! Just came across your blog and pictures of Maitland. It brought back some memories.
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