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L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse
L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, Windsor
Mile 31.51 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision
- Facing the Windsor Station
- Insulated Apple Warehouse
- Wooden construction
- Capacity: 10,000 barrels of apples[1]
History
The warehouse was built in 1906 by the Lewis Albert Armstrong and Sons Apple Exporting Company. It was a wooden second generation apple warehouse built with wooden knees and iron tensioning rods.[2] In later years the warehouse was a factory outlet shop for the nearby Windsor Wear textile mill. It became something of a Windsor landmark due to its prominent location downtown and a large mural depicting a railway scene which incorporated the warehouse windows into the artwork. The warehouse was acquired by the Windsor and Hantsport Railway who used the spur to park MOW equipment, but following the mothballing of the railway, the warehouse as unused and racked up $95,766 in unpaid taxeses owed by the Windsor and Hantsport. The warehouse was purchased at a forced tax sale by the Town of Windsor with hopes that it would encourage commercial development by the river. The town judged that the warehouse was beyond repair and approved demolition in October 2019.[3] It was demolished on November 19, 2019.[4]
Gallery
Locomotive No. 557 at Windsor with the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, 1924.
Locomotive No. 540 at Windsor with the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in background, 1938.
Locomotive No. 999 in Windsor with the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in the background, circa 1950.
The new Windsor Station with the old freight shed in the centre and the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, Aug. 7, 1973.
Train No. 1 at Windsor Station with the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse to the left and the Avon River Causeway to the right, Aug 17, 1977.
The L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Windsor, April 1979.
The L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse with its mural in Windsor, photographed by Wayne Simon, March 14, 2017.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway, DAR Chart of Apple and Produce Warehouses, February 23, 1927
- ↑ Richard Gordon Armstrong Facebook Comment, November 19, 2019
- ↑ Carole Morris-Underhill, "Windsor approves demolishing former Windsor Wear Factory Outlet building", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Oct 31, 2019
- ↑ Photo and Facebook Post about demolition, November 19, 2019
