Dauphin Canadian National Railway Station

• its highly visible location at the top of 1st Street NW, placement on the north side

of the railway track, aligned east-west and extensive landscaped grounds

Key exterior elements that define the heritage character of the station's style and construction include:

• the building's

impressive scale reinforced by its dramatic red brick facades with contrasting limestone trim and the tiered symmetry of its high centre block

• the strong horizontal massing and lines created by the elongated

rectangular plan, the first storey's shallow hip roof, broad overhanging eaves and prominent rusticated stone base, and the continuous stone stringcourses on the upper levels

• the striking centre block that

rises 1 1/2 storeys above the main floor to a steeply pitched pyramidal roof flanked by one-storey side wings with gable roofs

• the rhythmic placement and simple design of the many deep wooden brackets, each

springing from a small stone base, and supporting the first-storey eaves on all sides

• the numerous

tall openings on all elevations, including symmetrically placed single and double rectangular-shaped windows with six- and nine-pane upper sashes, the customary track-side bay window, single and double doors with transoms, paired round-arched second-floor windows on the north and south elevations, oculi highlighted by four keystones in the gable ends, etc.

• the wealth of finishes and decorative details,

including the centre block's crenellated brick and stone turrets; the rusticated stone quoins, keystones, sills, lintels and coping; the tall corbelled brick chimney; metal roof sheathing; painted wood trim;

roof ornaments; wooden rafter tails beneath the eaves of the pyramidal roof; yard-type light fixtures;

etc.

• the limestone pediments on the north and south sides of the pyramidal section, with wheat sheaf

crests incised with 'CNR' and '1912'