Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Marconi Towers
Towers Road, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- site
- Year built
- 1907
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1983
- Civic address
- 149 Marconi Towers Road
- Community
- Towers Road
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.15470, -59.94549
- File number
- Prov_file_1
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sydney, Canada. Coal Resources of the World. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the properties long association with the world famous scientist and inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, and for the central role this property played in the development of a worldwide communications system.
Character-defining elements
The character-defining elements of this site include:
- the location on the eastern tip of Nova Scotia facing Big Glace Bay Lake;
- the large multi-hectare surface area, with structures and remains on an open site;
- the integrity of the foundations of the aerial towers, in their footprints and original materials;
- the varied massing, heights, sizes and distinctive profiles of the site’s surviving structures, including the three-storey main station building, the two-and-a-half-storey residence, and the coach house;
- the spatial relationship of the buildings to each other, to the foundations of the aerial towers, and to the open site.