FOR SALE: Acreage, home and outbuildings CDN $900,000
Historic 1904 Canadian Pacific Railway train station converted to home and home based business. There is a built-in garage/workshop, plus separate hobby machine shop, 2 bay carport/garage, barn with 2 stalls/feed bunks (easily converted to 4 stalls), corral with heated water trough, garden shed and greenhouse, all on 8 acres (3.25 hectares). We are a 90 minute drive south of Calgary Alberta Canada (population 1.3 million). The house is a model 12 CPR Station 25'x100' (about 7.6mx30m, or 250 sq.metres) moved from the village of Granum about 40 years ago. It is located at the bottom edge of Willow Creek valley, at the base of a 20m hill directly to the west, with a long row of tall poplar trees to the east side of the house, plus lots of maple trees, some ash trees, and many large lilac shrubs. The fence along the north end of the yard was built to look like a train track on its side with a "bumper" at one end so none of the train cars can roll off the end :-). Lovely front yard has a flower area in front of an antique cart, placed in front of our water well casing, with several berms filled with trees, shrubs and flowers, and a terraced hillside east of the entry driveway.
The train station was built in two halves, with the warehouse addition added onto the north end years later, same as the original construction. The south half of the building was converted into a house about 40 years ago and the north (warehouse) half was converted into a home based sewing business and garage/workshop. The original wood platform on the front of the building has been changed into a wood deck, and with the huge overhang designed to protect waiting passengers from the weather, there is lots of shade later in the afternoons. There is a barbecue modified to run on natural gas located under the eves, and we cook on it all year.
As you can see below, the property has appeal in both the summer and winter. All the photos in this document have been taken over a number of years, and there have been changes pretty much every year, so some are not current. We have made numerous changes to the property/yard to make it more beautiful and/or easy to manage but any changes to the house have been to make it more like a train station than less so. Examples are: converting to antique ceiling light fixtures and we are in the process of converting most of the light switches to the older style push buttons with brass faceplates.
