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Exploring Nelson largest mercantile building in Castlegar
Nelson’s downtown, though Nelson. The turret and window Road map 2 C4. * 8,000. ~ @
hilly, is easily walkable. Over 350 arches are noteworthy. n 1995 6th Ave, (250) 365-6313.
historic buildings, from elegant ∑ castlegar.com
mansions to elaborate commercial P Houston Block
structures, give the city its unique 601–607 Baker St. 7 Located at the confluence of
style. Many of these restored Nelson’s first mayor, John the Kootenay and Columbia
buildings are part of Nelson’s Houston, commissioned Rivers, Castlegar is an angler’s
historic downtown walk ing architect A. E. Hodgins paradise. In the early 1900s,
tour. The visitors’ center provides to design the grand Doukhobors (Russian
maps and guides for the tour. Houston Block, built in religious dissen ters)
1899, to house a bank. fleeing persecution
P Bank of Montreal began arriving here. The
298 Baker St. Closed bank & major E Touchstones Nelson Doukhobor Discovery
hols. 7 502 Vernon St. Tel (250) 352- Centre showcases the
When it opened in 1900, after 9813. Open 10am–5pm daily (to group’s culture with
a year under construction, 8pm Thu, to 4pm Sun). 8 7 displays of traditional
the Bank of Montreal was Spokane pink brick and clothes, and tools in a
considered one of the finest Kaslo marble make for re-created village. Set in
commercial buildings in the a picturesque mixture lovely grounds with river
BC Interior. Its Italian influences of textures and patterns views and accessed via a
include rounded window arches on the 1902 Post Office Statue of Tolstoy, 470-ft- (143-m-) long
and detailed brickwork. and Customs House, Doukhobor Village suspension bridge,
now a museum of art Zuckerberg Island
P Mara-Barnard Block and history. Heritage Park features a Lake
421–431 Baker St. 7 Salish pit house and Russian
This elaborate High Victorian P Nelson Court House Orthodox chapel.
building, with unusual bay 320 Ward St. Tel (250) 354-6165.
windows on the second floor, Open year-round: 8:30am–4:30pm E Doukhobor Discovery Centre
housed the first branch of the Mon–Fri. Closed major hols. 8 7 112 Heritage Way. Tel (250) 365-5327.
Royal Bank of Canada to open F. M. Rattenbury, designer of Open May–Sep: 10am–5pm daily.
in BC, in 1897. Victoria’s Parliament Buildings & 7 ∑ doukhobor-museum.org
(see p254), designed this fine E Zuckerberg Island
P K.W.C. Block example of Beaux Arts chateau Heritage Park
488–498 Baker St. 7 architecture. Dating from 1909, 901 7th Ave. Tel (250) 365-6440.
Built by three merchants, Kirk- it features a high pitched roof, Open Park: year-round; Chapel: May–
patrick, Wilson, and Clements, towers, conical caps, gables, Sep, call for hours. & by donation.
in 1901, the K.W.C. Block was the and paired windows. 8 =
Bus station
200 m (220 yd)
Nelson City Center
3A
1 Bank of Montreal
2 Mara-Barnard Block F R ONT ST REE T
3 K.W.C. Block
4 Houston Block H A LL S T RE ET
5 Touchstones Nelson L AKE ST R E ET V E RN O N S TRE ET
6 Nelson Court House CE D AR S T REET
Touchstones
Nelson Court Nelson
House Houston Block
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Mara-Barnard
K. W. C.
Block
B A KE R S TR E ET
Block
H AL L S T R EET
SI LI CA S TR EE T
Bank of HE RR IDG E L AN E
Montreal J OS EP HI N E S TR E ET
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