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ARCHITECTURALINVENTORY: The Heart’s Content Heritage District

Edited by: Katherine Harvey

Intangible Cultural Heritage OfficeSt. John’s, NL Canada A1C 5V5

Layout/design by Jessie Meyer

2017

Architectural Inventory: The Heart’s Content Heritage District

EDITED BY:

Katherine Harvey FIELD RESEARCH/PHOTOGRAPHY:

Katherine Harvey & Eddy O’Toole


The Heart’s Content Heritage Inventory documents pre-Confederation (pre-1949) heritage structures within and immediately adjacent to the Heart’s Content Registered Heritage District. The district was designated in 2013 in recognition of the significant existing cultural landscape that is a testament to the history of the community as the site of the first trans-Atlantic cable station. The inventory was conducted by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Subsequent to changes made to the Foundation’s designation program in 2017, the decision was made to undertake a pilot project in the Heart’s Content Heritage District to see how these changes could best be implemented. Whereas, previously the Foundation had only one category for designation (Registered Heritage Structure), it was felt that this left out much that was significant to our cultural landscapes. One of two new categories created is “Registered Heritage Landmark” which will recognize a relatively small number of the province’s most significant heritage structures. The second category “Recognized Heritage Structures and Features” is meant to be more inclusive and recognize some of those structures and features which may be seen as less significant but which, nonetheless, contribute to a heritage landscape. These include dwellings, outbuildings, stages and stores, root cellars, fences and walls, cemeteries, amongst others. The benefit of designating some of these structures is they would then become eligible for funding under the Foundation’s Restoration Grant Program.

It is hoped that this inventory will lead to a number of new heritage designations in the community and support further measures to realize the full potential of the Heritage District to enhance the community and to support economic development.

Jerry DickEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Introduction


On June 27, 2017, my very first day with the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Eddy O’Toole and I were dropped off in the Heart’s Content Heritage District to survey already designated Registered Heritage Structures. I had basic knowledge of vernacular architecture at that point, and had never been to Heart’s Content.

Fast-forward two months, and I had made about a dozen trips to Heart’s Content, conducted several interviews with locals, completed about twenty architectural inventories of various historic properties and participated in Ted Rowe’s walking tour of the town. The community was beginning to feel like a second home to me.

From day one, the locals were welcoming and eager to help, and for that I am grateful. This project would not have been possible without the cooperation of the Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society, and my informants: Monica Hindy, Ed Matthews, Lloyd Smith, Howard Tavenor and Ted Rowe.

Undoubtedly, documenting the architectural features of historic buildings is essential for preservation, but collecting the oral histories of these places adds another layer of significance and value that can bring the buildings to life. I tried to collect as many memories as possible of each place we documented. The community has such a rich history, and each building pays tribute to that uniqueness.

Katherine Harvey

Methodology

Heart’s Content is located in Trinity Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. The first mention of Heart’s Content is by John Guy of Bristol, England in 1615. Heart’s Content was incorporated as a town in 1967.

The significance of the Heart’s Content Heritage District dates in large measure to 1866 when a transatlanticcommunications cable was successfully landed in the community. Included in the district are staff houses built by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company and Western Union Telegraph Company, and buildings associated with the development of the community such as Heyfield Memorial United Church, the Methodist School and the Society of United Fishermen Hall. Other principal physical elements of the district include cemeteries, a municipal park, a monument to the cable industry, traditional pathways and ornamental trees purposely planted during the construction of staff and cable company properties. The district is bounded by Station Road on the northeast, by School Road on the east, by Long Lane on the southeast and by the shoreline on the southwest, west and northwest.

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Heart’s Content Heritage District. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

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Uncle Charlie Rowe’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It was constructed circa 1921, and has a steep gable roof and a large bay window on the front facade. This was one of the houses that was built for cable station staff in the early twentieth century.

It was originally owned by Uncle Charlie Rowe who was employed by the cable office. It is currently used as a summer home.

Judy Arnott, the woman who lives next door, explained that the previous owner of her house believes Uncle Charlie Rowe’s House is haunted. They used to sit outside on the back step and watch the house, and they witnessed a variety of paranormal activities.

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Front facade. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Front facade. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2016.

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ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS

ALTERATIONS (note any visible alterations to the structure)

Sliding glass door in rear

GENERAL ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION

Building Name: Uncle Charlie Rowe’s HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Main Road

Postal Code: A0B 1Z0

Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Steep gable

Roofing Material: AsphaltDormer Position: None

Dormer Type: NoneExterior Sheathing: Vinyl

Type of Construction: Wood frameFoundation Type: Below ground

Foundation Material: ConcreteStoreys: 2.5

Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: Single door + double sidelights and transomMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: EaredMain Entrance Location: Left gable end

Stairs: Straight frontPorch Type: Stoop

Typical Window Shape: RectangleTypical Window Type: Single hung

Typical Panes: 2/2Window Trim/Decoration: Plain lintel

Roof and Eaves Trim: Eave brackets

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Rabbit House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It was constructed circa 1920, and has a mid pitch roof, narrow clapboarding and triangular brackets. It was originally owned by the Rabbit family. Mr. Rabbit worked in the cable station in the early 1900s.

The house is currently owned by Ed and Judy Arnott. The house has retained many of its original features, particularly on the interior, despite a near catastrophic fire that took place some years ago.

“This house when we bought it, it was primarily used as a summer home prior to that, although, I think the owners did live here year-round for some time. And just a couple of years prior to

us owning it, there had been a fire here. The owners had a little dog, and [they] had a record collection in the back room, and he was out and apparently the dog’s tail tipped over a burning candle or something. I think Bill and Lloyd were out walking Lloyd’s dog and they saw the smoke. There’s a volunteer fire department here and they... I tell you they earned kudos that night. We owe the volunteer fire department this house. It would have burned to the ground if they never got to it on time.”

Judy recalls a recurring - potentially paranormal - knocking on her back door.

“Before we moved in, we spent a Christmas here . . . and all the kids came home. And on

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Front facade. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2016.


one particular night, we were watching a movie on TV, and late in the night we went to bed, and some of the other kids went to bed, and my oldest girl stayed up. She was the last one; she was going to watch the rest of this movie. And she said the next morning, 'Mom, you didn’t hear me knocking on your bedroom door last night?'

And I said, ‘No, what did you want?’

And she said, 'Well I was calling out to you but I was only saying (whispers) ‘Mom, mom, mom.’

I said, ‘What was it?’

She said, ‘Somebody knocked on the door last night in the wee hours of the morning, and I was a bit nervous about going to answer the back door. So I went up to get you but I couldn’t wake you so I got Kristen up (her sister).’

And she said Kristen came down, and she said they were both still a bit nervous about going and opening the back door. And she said the door, it knocked again. And with that they flipped off the lights, ran upstairs and went to bed. We thought, who could it possibly be? We didn’t know anyone, at that time, who would come visiting.

We never thought anything of it, and it was only a matter of weeks later . . . somebody knocked on the door in the middle of the night . . . So I left our bedroom at the front of the house and walked to the back bedroom. And the motion sensor light was on. So there had been somebody there, and to this day I couldn’t tell you who it was.”

Ed and Judy Arnott in their home. Photo by Lisa Wilson.

Right facade. Photo courtesy Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. 1994.

Front facade. Photo courtesy Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. 1994.




Large triangular eave brackets Front veranda Beams underside side eaves

HISTORICAL/INTANGIBLE VALUESOriginal Owner: The Rabbits Builder/Architect: The RabbitsRough date of construction: 1920s

Main Door Shape: Single door + double sidelights and transomMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: EaredMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: Straight frontPorch Type: Covered


Typical Panes: 3/1Window Trim/Decoration: Eared



Building Name: Rabbit HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017



Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Mid-pitch gable

Roofing Material: AsphaltDormer Position: Cut through eave line

Dormer Type: PeakExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard



Plan: Short facade

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Heyfield Memorial United Church is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a vernacular Gothic Revival church with a steeple and a steeply pitched roof, which tapers to a hipped roof on the rear facade.

Previous to the establishment of a cable station in Heart’s Content, the community had a small number of Methodists who met in their own homes. Several of the Company’s employees were Methodists, and by 1874 more than 20 Wesleyans were recorded as living in Heart’s Content.

In 1877, the Methodist mission at Heart’s Content got its first clergyman, Reverend Joseph Lister, during whose one year term the church building

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Heyfield Memorial United Church Registered Heritage Structure

Front and right facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.

Front facade. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2013.


Under restoration. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2016.

Left facade. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.

was planned and started under the supervision of builder Robert Horwood of Carbonear. Construction was completed the following year during the ministry of Reverend Jesse Heyfield. The church was dedicated on November 12, 1878 by Heyfield, and he served at Heart’s Content until 1879, and again from 1908 until his death in December 1910.

In 1975, upon the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Church of Canada, the Heart’s Content congregation named the church Heyfield Memorial in his memory.

The Heyfield Memorial United Church was designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2011. It was recently restored and operates as a regional arts centre.




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Stained glass windows Angled clapboard


Building Name: Heyfield Memorial United Church Registered Heritage Structure

Date Recorded: June 27, 2017Recorded By: Katherine Harvey

Street Address: Main RoadPostal Code: A0B 1Z0

Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Steep gable (front); Hip (rear)


Dormer Type: NoneExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard

Type of Construction: Wood frameFoundation Type: Above ground

Foundation Material: Concrete and stone + Stone wallStoreys: 1

Plan: Short facade

Main Door Shape: Double door with arched transomMain Door Material: Wood plank

Door Trim/Decoration: Plain lintelMain Entrance Location: Right gable end

Stairs: NonePorch Type: Ramp + stoop

Typical Window Shape: Rectangle with triangular archTypical Window Type: Fixed

Typical Panes: 4/9Window Trim/Decoration: Moulded flat

Roof and Eaves Trim: NoneSignificant Features: Steeply pitched roof; tower with spire; original dimen-sions and height; materials, size, style, and placement of original windows and doors; pointed arch windows with textured and mauve-coloured stained glass; and decorative tin applied to ceilings and walls

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Oates House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is an early 1900s saltbox-style house. It was owned by Uncle Tommy Oates who worked in the cable office. His two daughters, Ethel and Helen, lived here after his death, and remained until they moved into a retirement home.

Helen and Ethel trained at the London Royal Academy of Music. The trunk that they travelled with is now on display at the Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Museum. The girls taught piano lessons from this house when they returned to Heart’s Content. Helen taught in St. John’s, while Ethel remained at home to care for her aging parents. Monica Hindy recalls.

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Front and right facade. Photo courtesy Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. 1994.



“My daughter, Bethany, took music lessons from them, she went up there for two years . . . Ethel had a ruler, if she missed a note she would click her on the finger with the ruler.”

Ethel also played the piano every Sunday at mass at the Heyfield Memorial United Church.

Monica Hindy shared another memory of this house from her childhood.

“We used to take milk down there as children . . . my mother and father kept cows so we used to deliver milk to their house back then. Before we went to school we’d have to go to several houses . . . early in the morning they’d milk the cows, and in the afternoon they’d milk them again and we’d go to so many more houses.”

Rear and left facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.




Vinyl windows & steel doors


Building Name: Oates HouseDate Recorded: June 27, 2017

Recorded By: Katherine HarveyStreet Address: Main Road


Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Single front peak





Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: Single door + double sidelightMain Door Material: Modern metal

Door Trim/Decoration: EaredMain Entrance Location: Right gable end




Roof and Eaves Trim: None

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Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a simple mansard roof with some decorative elements. Directly above the main door is an arched sign with the organization’s triangular shaped logo and motto. The triangular shape was chosen to represent Newfoundland’s approximate shape. Within the triangle appears the Maltese Cross, representing the eight Beatitudes, which members are taught to learn and observe. The motto adopted for the society was Love, Purity and Fidelity represented by the colors red, white and blue. These colors are reflected on the exterior trim with white being the predominant color.

The Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 was the first SUF lodge that was built in Newfoundland in 1869. Founded in 1862 by Rev. George Gardener, a Church of England clergyman, this mutual benefit society and fraternal order building was constructed as a meeting hall for members.

The Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 provided fellowship and established a mutual support system for its members at a time when there were few services available to fishermen and their families. The building was designed by the SUF founder, Rev. George Gardner, and was constructed by members offering free


Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 Registered Heritage Structure



Left and rear facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.

labour and materials. The duties of the officers involved providing community aid in the forms of attending to the sick and bringing water and wood to those who needed it. They provided money and support to families for funerals of deceased members. This was made available through the collection of annual fees. The SUF also involved itself in projects to benefit

individual communities through fundraising and charity work.

Ted Rowe recalls the SUF lodge at Christmas time.

“There were two main Christmas times: the fishermen always had theirs on New Year’s day, and the Orangemen always had theirs


Left facade, under restoration. Photo courtesy Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. 1994.

on Old Christmas Day, on January 6th. The Orangemen’s Hall is where the Masonic Hall is now, just up the road from the Fishermen’s Hall, and I have good memories of both of them. But mostly the Fishermen’s Hall because that’s pretty much intact inside the way it was back then. They had a fishermen’s band – for awhile there were two bands, and then they combined and had a combined fishermen’s and Orangemen’s brass band for marching. They would be on the stage and the band would play Christmas carols while they were serving the

supper and then afterwards they would clear back the tables and there would be a dance. An accordion player, a fiddler, for a traditional dance. I have a lot of good memories of going up there when I was very young.”

The Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 was designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation, and underwent major interior and exterior renovations in 1994.



Sign installed


SUF sign/arch above main entrance Triangular window on upper front facade



Building Name: Society of United Fishermen Lodge SUF #1 Registered Heritage Structure



Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Mansard

Roofing Material: Wood shingleDormer Position: None



Foundation Material: Stone pileStoreys: 1.5

Plan: Rectangular; short facade

Main Door Shape: Double doors with triangular archMain Door Material: Wood plank

Door Trim/Decoration: Plain flatMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: NonePorch Type: None

Typical Window Shape: Rectangle with triangular archTypical Window Type: Fixed


Roof and Eaves Trim: NoneSignificant Features: Mansard roof; wooden shingles; narrow wooden clap-board; gothic windows; triangular window; signage with emblem and logo; and simple, unadorned building.

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Front and left facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.

Methodist Schoolhouse

The Methodist Schoolhouse is located on Alex Rowe’s Lane in Heart’s Content. The first Methodist “school” was started by the congregation in 1891. They housed twenty-three students in the basement of their church. In 1917, the government allocated $1,500 to build a new school for the twenty-eight methodist students in the community. By 1923, the one-room school house was functional. In 1933, the school was amalgamated under the Board of Education. Monica Hindy recalls attending as a child.

“There was a little blackboard in the back and a calendar, and every morning you’d have to know what way the wind was blowing. If it was raining you’d draw a little umbrella and whatever way the wind was blowing. As a child I didn’t know so my

time came in the morning to go out and find what way the wind was blowing, too shy to tell [my teacher] I couldn’t do it . . . I went out and put my handkerchief up and of course I don’t know if the wind was blowing that morning . . . I was hoping someone would go by that I could ask (laughs).”

When the schoolhouse closed, the Masonic Order began leasing the building in 1942. In 1969, the Orangemen decided the building they were using was too large for their purposes, and so traded places with the Masons. When the Loyal Orangemen’s Association was shut down in the community, the building became the property of the Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society. It now houses the Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Museum.


Rear of building. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.Historical photo of schoolhouse. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Museum.

Interior of building. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2012.



Steel rear door


Large projecting eaves with underside beams Cottage roof with tall windows



Building Name: Methodist SchoolhouseDate Recorded: June 26, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Alex Rowe's Lane


Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Hip




Foundation Material: ConcreteStoreys: 1


Main Door Shape: Rectangle panelledMain Door Material: Modern metal

Door Trim/Decoration: Moulded flatMain Entrance Location: Rear facade


Typical Window Shape: Tall rectangleTypical Window Type: Single hung



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Front and right facade. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2016.

Uncle Will Mallon’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is an early twentieth-century, double front peak house with pedimented bay windows.

It was once owned by Uncle Will Mallon who was from Bay Roberts. He moved to Heart’s Content to work in the cable office. This house is currently under renovation to become a Bed and Breakfast.

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Front facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.

Left facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.




Building Name: Uncle Will Mallon’s HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017



Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Double front peak





Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Wood plank

Door Trim/Decoration: EaredMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: CoveredPorch Type: Stoop


Typical Panes: 2/2Window Trim/Decoration: Plain flat



Vinyl windows and steel doors on rear (non-historic fenestration) Vinyl windows on left side


Pedimented double bays

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The Orangemen’s Lodge is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a two-storey wooden hall on a concrete foundation with a hip roof and a two-storey hip-roofed front portion.

The Loyal Orange Association erected this building in 1880 after the associated arrived in Newfoundland in 1870. The upper level was renovated and leased by the Masonic Order in 1921. The Orangemen took over the Methodist Schoolhouse in 1941, and moved locations in 1969 as they realized the space was too large for their declining membership, while the masons remained at this location.

The lodge had many functions according to locals who remember spending time there when they were growing up in the community. Ted Rowe recalls weekly movie nights at the lodge.

“In the 1950s they would have movies every Friday night in Heart’s Content. There was a movie man that came from New Harbour up the shore. And they would show the movies in the basement of the Orange Hall, and it was almost all men, accept teenage girls would go. But once you became married certainly, and once you got to a certain age, I’m thinking over twenty, women wouldn’t go to the movies. I don’t know why, it was just a thing, only men



went to the movies.”

Tiernan Rogerson and Art Cumby explain.

“It was a building used for meetings, bingo, dances, and suppers to raise money to keep it going. It was made of all Protestants. If you were Catholic, and swore allegiance to the Queen, you could join. Sadly they couldn’t

raise enough money, so now the Orangemen’s building is sometimes used as a craft centre. [Art’s] great grandfather, Fred Cumby, was waked in the Orangemen’s Lodge in 1989. There was no funeral home in Heart’s Content and he refused to be waked anywhere but in the community he was born and raised in."




Altered main entrance Vinyl window in left side of front bay Originally had a steep gable roof


Building Name: The Orangemen’s LodgeDate Recorded: July 7, 2017









Main Door Shape: Single door (originally double door) + large arch decoration

Main Door Material: Modern metalDoor Trim/Decoration: Arched window originally above main door

Main Entrance Location: Front facadeStairs: None

Porch Type: NoneTypical Window Shape: Rectangle/front window round-arched

Typical Window Type: Single hungTypical Panes: 4/4

Window Trim/Decoration: NoneRoof and Eaves Trim: None

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Allison Moore’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is an early twentieth-century style house with a hip roof, dual dormers and a large bay window. It was originally owned by Allison Moore.

Lloyd Smith relays his memory of this house.

“They had a shop between that house and the high road. They sold clothing and groceries . . . They closed that shop in the 50s. As a youngster I was buying stuff for 10 cents . . . That shop is torn down now.”

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Rear facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.




Vinyl windows


Building Name: Allison Moore’s HouseDate Recorded: June 28, 2017




Roofing Material: AsphaltDormer Position: Cut though eave line

Dormer Type: ShedExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard



Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: Rectangle with transomMain Door Material: Modern metal with glass

Door Trim/Decoration: Moulded flatMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: Straight frontPorch Type: Covered




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Marcus Farnham’s house pictured on far left. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.


Marcus Farnham’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It was constructed circa 1921 for staff of the cable station. It is a two-and-a-half storey home with a steep gable roof.

It was owned by Marcus Farnham who worked in the cable station. His son, Wallace, also worked in the cable station. This style was typical of the other staff houses built during this period.





Building Name: Marcus Farnham’s HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017









Main Door Shape: Single door + sidelight on rightMain Door Material: Modern metal

Door Trim/Decoration: NoneMain Entrance Location: Right gable end

Stairs: Straight sidePorch Type: Stoop

Typical Window Shape: RectangleTypical Window Type: Casement

Typical Panes: PictureWindow Trim/Decoration: None



Large porch added to front facade

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Rear facade. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2013.

The Western Union Staff Houses are located on Office Hill Road in Heart’s Content. They are side-by-side, one and a half story, Southcott style duplexes. The cable industry was booming in the early twentieth-century as a result of World War I, and so these houses were built in July of 1918 to accommodate growing staff at the cable station. There was a shortage of construction workers at the time, and so these duplexes took over a year to complete.

When men would go and work in the cable station, their wives were often left alone for

a period of time. Monica Hindy remembers keeping a friend company in these houses while her husband was at work.

“I used to go up and sleep in the nights with her for company when [her husband], Claude, was working nighttime. They didn’t have any children . . . I’d spend a week, sleeping in a different bed from her, just for company, and being in the house with her. I guess maybe she was lonely.”


Front facade. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2013.

Front facade. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.




All original materials removed with the exception of wooden front door.


Building Name: Western Union Staff HousesDate Recorded: July 26, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Office Hill Road


Building Type: Duplex relatedRoof Type: Mansard

Roofing Material: AsphaltDormer Position: Above eave line

Dormer Type: ShedExterior Sheathing: Vinyl

Type of Construction: Wood frameFoundation Type: Underground



Main Door Shape: Rectangle panelledMain Door Material: Solid wood


Stairs: Straight frontPorch Type: None

Typical Window Shape: Double VinylTypical Window Type: Single hung



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Heart’s Content Cable Station is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is one of several buildings constructed by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company in the town throughout the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries to support the operation of the transatlantic cable. It was erected in 1876, and still contains much of the original equipment, layout and hardware which were in use at the site up to the time of its closure.

Constructed in 1876 by John Southcott, a prominent St. John’s architect, the Heart’s Content Cable Station functioned as the main cable station used by the Anglo-American Telegraph Company and later, Western Union. In 1918, in response to increased traffic, the

building was renovated, and an extension was added onto the original structure. The exterior of the 1876 section still retains its distinctly Gothic bargeboard which reflected the popular features of English gatehouses and stables of the time. This style of architecture, and its accompanying decorative features, were unusual for nineteenth-century industrial buildings constructed in the outports of Newfoundland and Labrador.

While there remains no equipment from the early period, the 1876 section does retain much of the original layout and the distinctive wainscoting. The interior layout, which is primarily intact, also reflects the close

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Provincial Historic Site

Original building and extension. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2016.


Front facade. Photo courtesy Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. 1994.

relationship between the social and work world of the staff with space for the library made available in the original 1876 section of the building.

With the extension in 1918, a whole new section, reflecting the changing technology, was added to the structure. In addition, a second washroom for the female staff, the only tangible evidence of a female presence and role in the history of the site, was also added. This section still retains much of the equipment, lighting and hardware used by the company for its operations up to the time the site closed in the 1960s.

Many members of the community remember working at the cable station. It has since been designated a Provincial Historic Site, and now

function as a museum. Georgina Balsom recounts a day when she was working at the museum.“You get all kinds of people, all walks of life comes in. You don’t know who you’re going to get. This couple came out and they said, ‘you know you have a ghost here?’

And I said, ‘Is that right?’

‘Oh yes, you do have a ghost.’

And I said ‘Where did you see this ghost?’ And they said, ‘Right there in the stairs as you’re going to go up to the second part of the building, there’s a ghost standing right there, by the rails at the steps.’

I said, ‘Okay.’


‘But it’s nothing to worry about.’I said, ‘Is it a man or is it a woman?’

‘Oh it’s a man, but you have nothing to fear from him because he’s friendly.’

I said, ‘Okay, as long as he’s friendly, that’s okay with me.’”

Bob Balsom also worked at the museum. He recalls a story of romance at the station. “Yeah, there was an interesting story. This young man and his fiancé, we didn’t know they were about to get married or anything, but we had an area there where you could tap messages on a key, back and forth on a large table. And anyway, he went and tapped a message because, you know, they could interpret the message because we had the Morse Code there on both ends of the table that you could read and do the dashes and dots and so on. Anyway he tapped out a message, ‘Will you marry me?’ and she was on the other end. She started yelling and crying. So, you know, of course she said yes, and they wrote that on our guestbook as they went out.”

Front facade of old cable station. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.

Man with horse and cart in front of cable station. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.




Building Name: Heart’s Content Cable Station Provincial Historic Site

Date Recorded: September 12, 2017Recorded By: Katherine Harvey



Roofing Material: SlateDormer Position: None

Dormer Type: NoneExterior Sheathing: Brick

Type of Construction: UndeterminedFoundation Type: Below ground

Foundation Material: UndeterminedStoreys: 1.5

Plan: Rectangular; long facade

Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Modern metal

Door Trim/Decoration: ShapedMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: Straight frontPorch Type: None

Typical Window Shape: Square and rectangleTypical Window Type: Single hung

Typical Panes: 2/2Window Trim/Decoration: Shaped

Roof and Eaves Trim: BargeboardSignificant Features: Gothic bargeboard; 2 chimneys with ornate brickwork; 2/2 sashes in windows; red brick exterior walls with white accents over the windows and doors; white quoins; slate roof; skylights; and finial


Addition on rear of building made in 1918

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HCI-013NUMBER ON MAP: #13Uncle Cyril & Dot Farnham’s House


Farnham House is on the far right. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.

Uncle Cyril and Dot Farnham’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It was built circa 1921, and has a steep gable roof and bay window. It was built by the Western Union Cable Company for staff housing.

It was originally owned by Uncle Cyril Farnham, who worked in the cable station, and his wife, Dot.




Building Name: Uncle Cyril and Dot Farnham’s HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017









Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Modern metal with glass


Stairs: NonePorch Type: Covered





Vinyl windows, siding, and steel door

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Old Jack's Shop is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a one-and-a-half storey structure with a steep gable roof. It was constructed circa 1900, and has historically been used as a commercial building.

It was built by William Hopkins, and initially used as a grocery store. It was sold in the early 1900s and became a drug store. The structure was sold in 1955 and converted once again into a grocery store. Joan Smith recounts the many transformation of this building.

“When I was a small child that was a pharmacy, and it had been a pharmacy for many years. I don’t think it was a pharmacy originally, I think it might have been a grocery store in the beginning. It




Old Jack’s Shop


was actually built for the Hopkins family, by the Hopkins family, and they were the original owners of the house that we bought too. Anyway, Mom, she had the head for business, she had the education. [In the past] things were still rationed, and with all these kinds and these borders, there was never enough sugar. The food then arrived by truck, of course is still does but now there’s only one or two basic firms, but then every company had a little small truck on the go. Often they would get to Heart’s Content by lunchtime or in the evening, or they would be on their way back to St. John’s in the evening, and they would book and spend the night. They said to mom at one time ‘You know,

if you had a little shop it would be easier for you to get sugar.’ So she started this little shop with $50.00. Our house was a double house, and my brother owned the other end but never lived in it. He’d gone to Montreal, and it was empty. So in the front living room of that house she started a little grocery store. $50.00! And she kept it there for about two years, so that would have been up to ‘47, ‘48... I would say in ‘49 she bought this place right across the road. It was for sale at the time, and she bought that and moved her store over, enlarged it, and kept it running for many years. When she gave it up, she gave it to my brother Jack.”

Interior of shop. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2012.



Steel door and pressure treated stairs on right side



Building Name: Old Jack’s ShopDate Recorded: July 26, 2017







Foundation Material: Concrete and stoneStoreys: 1.5


Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Wood plank

Door Trim/Decoration: Flat hoodMain Entrance Location: Front facade


Typical Window Shape: Wide rectangleTypical Window Type: Fixed

Typical Panes: 6 paneWindow Trim/Decoration: Plain flat


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George and Emma Moore’s House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a third-generation style house with a steep gable roof and decorative clapboarding. It was built circa 1900, and was originally owned by George and Emma Moore.




George & Emma Moore’s House




Building Name: George & Emma Moore’s HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017








Plan: Rectangular; long facade

Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Metal w/glass

Door Trim/Decoration: Moulded flatMain Entrance Location: Front facade






Vinyl windows


Diagonal clapboarding + trim boards Protruding porch on front facade

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Western Union Operator's House is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is a two-and-a-half storey house with Victorian style influences. It was built circa 1921, and was home to Edgar (Ed), who was an operator at the Heart’s Content cable station, and his wife, Sadie Hopkins. Monica Hindy shares a memory of Mr. Hopkins.

“Mr. Ed Hopkins, he worked in the cable office. He was crippled for years, he was in a wheelchair. I remember him as a child sitting out on the back. When we’d go down for water, we’d always wave to him, and he waved back from his wheelchair.”

The Western Union Telegraph company was the successor to the Anglo-American Telegraph Company – which had successfully landed the first

HCI-016NUMBER ON MAP: #16Western Union Operator’s House

Registered Heritage Structure

Front facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017

January 1959. Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.


transatlantic telegraph cable linking Europe and North America in Heart’s Content in 1866. The community quickly became a communications hub - transmitting and relaying messages across the North Atlantic.

Western Union Telegraph Company took control of cable operations in 1912. The small outport saw an influx of trained operators from England and Canada, and at peak operation over two hundred people were employed by

the cable companies. In the years following World War One, cable traffic slowed down and automated equipment was being introduced. By the 1950s telephones had almost made telegraphs obsolete. The station closed in 1965, after a century of providing a vital communication link between continents. Western Union Operator's House is associated with the firm of Saunders and Howell. Heart’s Content saw a construction boom when the Western Union Telegraph Company took over

Front facade as vinyl siding was being removed. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2015


operations at the cable station in 1912. Noted Carbonear firm, Saunders and Howell, built many of the houses needed to accommodate employees. These professionally built houses introduced new housing styles to the community, and are important components of the community’s built heritage.

Western Union Operator's House is one of several similar houses built by the firm that were influenced by Victorian design elements. These elements include the steep gable roof, returned eaves, bracketing, the two-storey bay window topped by a pediment and the open front porch.

Western Union Operator’s House was designated a Registered Heritage Structure by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2015 and restored by its current owners.

Front and left facade before vinyl siding was removed. Photo by Michael Philpott. 2015.

Rear facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017


Main Door Shape: Typical panelled + screen doorMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: Decorated flatMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: NonePorch Type: Covered


Typical Panes: 1/1; 2/2Window Trim/Decoration: Plain flat

Roof and Eaves Trim: Eave bracketsSignificant Features: Number of storeys; steep gable roof; chimney number, style and placement; return on the eaves; narrow wooden clapboard; wooden corner boards; bracketing; two-storey bay topped with pediment, size, style, trim and placement of wooden windows; size, style, trim and placement of wooden storm windows; size, style, trim and placement of exterior wooden doors; wooden transom windows above front door; size, style, trim and placement of porch on front façade; and dimension, location and orientation of building.



Deck on rear Over-decoration of front porch


Pedimented bay window Rear porch Front stained glass windows


Building Name: Western Union Operator’s House Registered Heritage Structure


Street Address: 187 Main RoadPostal Code: A0B 1Z0







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Underhay Bungalow

Underhay Bungalow is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is one of a number of cottage-style bungalows that were built circa 1920. It was likely constructed by the Carbonear architectural firm, Saunders and Howell.




Building Name: Underhay BungalowDate Recorded: July 7, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: 184 Main Road




Dormer Type: HipExterior Sheathing: Vinyl



Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: Single door + double sidelightMain Door Material: Modern

Door Trim/Decoration: NoneMain Entrance Location: Front facade


Typical Window Shape: Rectangle with diamond motifTypical Window Type: Fixed

Typical Panes: 9/1Window Trim/Decoration: Shelf



Vinyl dormer Steel front door


Diamond shaped, triple window arrangement Large eave overhang

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Stenneford Bungalow

Stenneford Bungalow is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It is one of a number of cottage-style bungalows that were built circa 1920. It was likely constructed by the Carbonear architectural firm, Saunders and Howell.




Building Name: Stenneford Bungalow Date Recorded: July 7, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: 180 Main Road




Dormer Type: HipExterior Sheathing: Vinyl



Plan: Square

Main Door Shape: Single door + double sidelightMain Door Material: Modern





Roof and Eaves Trim: Spire


Rear/side porch Vinyl dormer window + steel door


Large eave overhang

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HCI-019NUMBER ON MAP: #19Billy Palmer’s House


Billy Palmer’s House is located on Parish Hall Hill in Heart’s Content. It was erected circa 1921, and has a steep gable roof and bay window on the front façade.

It was once owned by the well-known Newfoundland artist, Billy Palmer. He worked at the cable station but he had an incredible talent for painting. Lloyd Smith and Monica Hindy remember Mr. Palmer.

“We used to delivery groceries to him, but his wife died before I can remember . . . he spent his time painting. I used to watch him painting, and mow his grass with a push mower. He

lived alone for a long time. He used to sit in his garden, he kept busy.”

Painting by Billy Palmer. Photo courtesy Town of Heart’s Content.




Building Name: Billy Palmer HouseDate Recorded: July 7, 2017

Recorded By: Katherine HarveyStreet Address: Parish Hall Hill



Roofing Material: AsphaltDormer Position: Flush with eave line

Dormer Type: PeakExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard




Main Door Shape: RectangleMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: ShelfMain Entrance Location: Left gable end






Porch added onto rear

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HCI-020NUMBER ON MAP: #20Harold & Carrie Martin’s House


Biscuit boxes line the walls of the Hunter’s laundry room. Photo courtesy Wendy Hunter. 2017.


Harold and Carrie Martin’s House is located on Martin’s Lane in Heart’s Content. It was built in the early 1900s, and was originally owned by Harold and Carrie Martin.

Monica Hindy explained that they ran a shop when she was a little girl.

“He took over the old business from his father, Harold, and his business was groceries. It was right by the little store, Jack’s Store . . . it was a big old fashioned house, and the store was

built together. So Old Adam Martin, I don’t remember him, but that’s who had it. Then Harold took it over after I guess the father died.”

The house is currently owned by Keith and Wendy Hunter who use it as a summer home. When you enter the house through the back door there is a laundry room to your immediate right, and the walls are lined with old biscuit boxes from the shop.





Building Name: Harold & Carrie Martin’s HouseDate Recorded: July 26, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Martin’s Lane


Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Low pitch






Main Door Shape: Rectangle PanelledMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: Pain flatMain Entrance Location: Front facade

Stairs: Straight sidePorch Type: Enclosed





Addition to right side with steel door

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The Anglo-American House is located on Parish Hall Hill in Heart’s Content. Construction began on this house, and several other cable staff properties, in 1881. The slew of houses that were built at this time were finished by 1882, except for this house. It took a little longer to complete due to the fact that Ezra Weedon, the first cable station superintendent, was handicapped, and required special alterations to be made to the house. Ed Matthews, the current owner of the house, explains.

“There was a whole slew of them built at the same time. You can appreciate, everything was done by hand then. No backhoes or bulldozers, and I’m sure it took a long time to build all those homes. Not one year. But the best proof I have – a couple of years ago I was working upstairs and I found



Ed Matthews outside his house in Heart’s Content. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

The Anglo-American House


Historical drawing front facade. Courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.

a nickel that could only have been lost during construction, and it was 1896. I was selling all my silver a couple of years ago, and I sold it with that.”

This house was built in the Second Empire Style for which the architect, John Southcott, was most famous. It is a two-story house with a mansard roof. Its grandiose architecture is exemplified by its high ceilings, large hallways, intricately-carved eaves brackets and sun room. The property has undergone various minor renovations over the years; however, for the most part it remains in its original condition.

The house was owned by the Anglo-American Cable Company, and the cable station’s superintendents were stationed here until Ed Matthews purchased the house in the 1970s. His children grew up in this house, and Lloyd Smith, Ed’s neighbour, recalls a story of their childhood.

“Ed Matthews, when he bought it, his sons used to play hockey upstairs in the hall because the hall was so huge.”



Original veranda altered with right corner being enclosed for a porch Dormer window size and roof shape altered


Wrap around front veranda, original rear porch and wooden detail, ash pit in rear



Building Name: Anglo-American HouseDate Recorded: July 26, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Parish Hall Hill


Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Mansard


Dormer Type: PeakExterior Sheathing: Vinyl and some clapboard


Foundation Material: Concrete and brickStoreys: 1.5


Main Door Shape: Rectangle panelledMain Door Material: Modern material (rear is solid wood)


Stairs: Straight front and straight sidePorch Type: Covered



Roof and Eaves Trim: Eaves brackets and eave line scalloping

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The Cable Staff Houses are located on Parish Hall Hill in Heart’s Content. They are two-stories with mansard roves, eaves brackets and dormer windows built in the Second Empire Style. Cable Staff House #1 and #2 were built by the Anglo-American Cable Company in 1882 to accommodate employees of the cable station in Heart's Content, NL.

The Cable Staff Houses are a landmark in the community of Heart’s Content. Built on the highest hill, their location is a testament to the influence of the Cable Company in Heart’s Content. The Cable Staff Houses are two of the largest and most elaborate buildings in Heart’s Content which stand in stark contrast to the



Cable Staff House #1 & #2 Registered Heritage Structures

Front facade. Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. 1995.


typical fishermen’s houses throughout the community. Howard Tavenor remarks.

“The only time you got to go in one of those places was if mother was babysitting, or doing the laundry.”

The Cable Staff Houses are significant due to their association with the Anglo-American Cable Company. The Cable Company, formerly the New York, Newfoundland, London Company was granted a 50 year monopoly on telecommunications in Newfoundland by the government in 1854. The first cable was landed in Heart’s Content in 1866, and immediately revolutionized communication. In 1888, the company saw the need to build accommodations for the staff of the Cable Station.

The Cable Staff Houses were designated Registered Heritage Structures by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1995 and subsequently restored.


Left: Anglo-American House, Right: Cable Staff Houses. Courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.



Vinyl windows in foundation


Bonnetted dormers



Building Name: Cable Staff House #1 Registered Heritage Structure


Street Address: Parish Hall HillPostal Code: A0B 1Z0



Dormer Type: Modified SemicircularExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard




Main Door Shape: Rectangle panelled + screen doorMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: Moulded flatMain Entrance Location: Left gable end




Roof and Eaves Trim: Eaves bracketSignificant Features: Mansard roof; eaves brackets; dormer windows; window style and placement; dormer style; and window trim.

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Vinyl windows in foundation


Bonnetted dormers



Building Name: Cable Staff House #1 Registered Heritage Structure


Street Address: Parish Hall HillPostal Code: A0B 1Z0



Dormer Type: Modified SemicircularExterior Sheathing: Narrow clapboard




Main Door Shape: Rectangle panelled + screen doorMain Door Material: Solid wood

Door Trim/Decoration: Moulded flatMain Entrance Location: Right gable end




Roof and Eaves Trim: Eaves bracketSignificant Features: Mansard roof; eaves brackets; dormer windows; window style and placement; dormer style; and window trim.

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Heyfield Memorial United Church Cemetery is located on Main Road in the grassy churchyard. It contains approximately fifty gravemarkers constructed in column or tablet forms that are made of white and grey marble. They date from the late 1870s through the mid-1930s.

Markers commemorating Reverend Jesse Heyfield and S.S. Stentaford are amongst them. Other surnames include Ainley, Bonner, Gardner, Haddon, Hopkins, Howell, Janes, Lever, Matthews, Oates, Ollerhead, Pugh, Rabbitts, Robbins, Rowe and Thompson.

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View of cemetery from across the road. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Headstones. Photo by Lisa Wilson. 2013.

Heyfield Memorial United Cemetery Municipal Heritage Site


The Anglican Cemetery is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content. It served as the burial grounds for the Anglican Church, which was tragically destroyed by fire in May of 1989.

Ted Rowe explains why he believes certain families are buried in this cemetery.

“[The cemetery] has a lot of headstones in it with the names of people who were company employees, and the names of children of people who were company employees. And people say that is where they buried their own because they didn’t want to bury them where other people were being buried. You might think that if you saw it, but there are local people buried in here as well. I think the reason why there are so many

company employees and children of company employees in here is because they were using that part of the cemetery during one of the diphtheria outbreaks, so a lot of children died. You see a lot of children buried in that section of the cemetery because it just happened to be used at that time.”

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Anglican Cemetery. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Anglican Cemetery

Rectory (c. 1890-1954) and St. Mary’s Church (1884-1989). Photo courtesy Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society.


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Stone Wall. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Stone Wall

This stone wall is located on Main Road of Heart’s Content, adjacent to the Anglican Cemetery. Ted Rowe explains.

“My guess is that the wall was built in 1868, when the land was prepared for building Cable Terrace, the cable company staff house

which was located where the Royal Bank is now. Construction on the building started in 1868 and it opened in 1869. The elevation of the churchyard was higher than the building, suggesting that a wall was in place.”


The Anglo-American Coal Shed is located on Main Road in Heart’s Content.

Lloyd Smith and Monica Hindy explain how the coal shed was used in the past:

“The coal boats used to come into that wharf . . . they came from North Sydney by ship, and they stored coal in that building. They delivered the coal to their company men for their houses. They had coal furnaces in a lot of their houses, that’s what they burned.”

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Left facade. Photo by Eddy O’Toole. 2017.

Anglo-American Coal Shed



Vinyl siding



Building Name: Anglo-American Coal ShedDate Recorded: June 26, 2017

Recorded By: Eddy O’TooleStreet Address: Heart’s Content


Building Type: Single detachedRoof Type: Single slope






Main Door Shape: Double plank doorMain Door Material: Wood plank



Typical Window Shape: Long rectangleTypical Window Type: Casement

Typical Panes: PictureWindow Trim/Decoration: Plain flat


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One of the water pumps on Main Road. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Water Pump

Before running water was accessible in every home in Heart’s Content, these water pumps were used by members of the community to acquire drinking water. Those who worked in the cable station had running water in their company homes, while the rest of the community did not. Those who were not

employed by the cable company were required to pay to have pumps installed in their homes, and this was an issue of great contention. Two of these water pumps remain on Main Road in Heart’s Content to serve as a reminder of the past, and they remain functional for members of the community.


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Ash box. Photo by Katherine Harvey. 2017.

Ash Box

This Ash Box is located on Parish Hall Hill in Heart’s Content alongside the Anglo-American House. It was likely built around the same time as the house, circa late 1800s or early 1900s.Ed Matthews explains what they were used for in the past, and what he uses it for in the present day.

“When they were burning coal all those years, when they’d take the ashes out, they’d put it in the little brick house. Then every year they would take them out, I guess with horse and cart, and carry away the ashes, and probably spread it over their potato grounds. I kept it there. The wife usually she puts flowers [in it] but this year it was so bad we let it go to nature.”



The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador

The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador is a nonprofit organization which was established in 1984 to stimulate an understanding of and an appreciation for the architectural heritage of the province. The Foundation, an invaluable source of information for historic restoration, supports and contributes to the preservation and restoration of buildings of architectural or historical significance. The Heritage Foundation also has an educational role and undertakes or sponsors events, publications and other projects designed to promote the value of our built heritage. The Heritage Foundation is also involved in work designed to safeguard and sustain the intangible cultural heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador for present and future generations everywhere, as a vital part of the identities of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, and as a valuable collection of unique knowledge and customs. This is achieved through policies that celebrate, record, disseminate, and promote our living heritage.

For more information on the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, contact the office at:

Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador1 Springdale StreetSt. John’s, NL A1C 5V5

Phone: (709) 739-1892Fax: (709) 739-5413Website: www.heritagefoundation.ca


Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador1 Springdale StreetSt. John’s, NL A1C 5V5

Phone: (709) 739-1892Fax: (709) 739-5413Website: www.heritagefoundation.ca

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