AZM150 Galvalume® Steel Provides Added Protection to this Heritage Trust Structure
Wolfville’s Railroad Station is one of Nova Scotia’s few remaining brick railway stations. The Station was abandoned in 1990 when Dominion Atlantic Railway ceased passenger service in the Annapolis Valley. However, after months of community fundraising efforts, private donations, and support from the Province and the Town of Wolfville, the station was purchased by the Wolfville Library Foundation.
The station, a two-and-a-half storey brick and stone building, is valued for its historical association to the railway system in the Annapolis Valley and for its renovation in 1993 by Wolfville’s citizens. In 1994, the Foundation received the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia Built Heritage Award for the Station’s restoration. The current Wolfville Memorial Library, is one of eleven branches of the Annapolis Valley Regional Library System. In 2017 it was determined that the original shingles on the railroad station, now the Wolfville Library, had reached the end of their service life.
Harvey Freeman, of FMB Architecture I Design, the project architect for the re-roofing, elected to use a diamond shaped roof tile made from ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s .38mm (.0149”) pre-painted AZM150 Galvalume steel in the Granite Deep Mat paint system, coloured QC60035 Graphite Gray. Granite Deep Mat is a pre-painted Galvalume coated steel that combines excellent formability and corrosion resistance and brings differentiation and originality in roofing and cladding designs for residential and commercial building projects.
According to a community consultation done by the Annapolis Valley Regional Library (AVRL) in late 2017, most agree that a larger library is needed in Wolfville.“The planning is in the early stages,” says Ann-Marie Mathieu, chief executive officer of AVRL. “We are looking at all possibilities and how a new library fits in with the aspirations of the Town of Wolfville.” According to the survey results, most people want the library to stay in the current building, but the community has two needs: a traditional library as well as a social gathering space. The current Library space is 269m2 (2,900 sq. ft.).
The Annapolis Valley Regional Library – Wolfville Library Needs Assessment, 2017, estimated that the design population for the
Wolfville Library to be 13,000, with the total space requirement
being 1,382m2 (14,880 sq. ft.). A working group of staff and
volunteers, with relevant experience, has been composed
and is looking at how the library fits with the ongoing review
of the town’s planning documents.
South and Northwest elevations of the re-roofed historic Wolfville Railway Station, now the Wolfville Library, showing the diamond shaped pattern roofing tile made from ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s pre-painted .45mm (.0179”) AZM150 Galvalume using the Granite Deep Mat paint system coloured QC60036 Graphite Gray, with snow guards.