Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
At the Sign of the Whale
Dayton, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- 1811
- Decade built
- 1810-1819
- Notice of registration date
- 16 June 1989
- Civic address
- 543 Highway 1
- Community
- Dayton
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.87722, -66.09717
- File number
- Prov_file_100
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is one of the earliest surviving and largely unaltered houses in Yarmouth County, and because it has become an important landmark in southwestern Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of At the Sign of the Whale include:
- two-over-two double hung sash windows;
- recessed entrance with large hood supported by cutout brackets;
-location on Highway No. 1 and large “At the Sign of the Whale” sign.
Character-defining elements of the Georgian style of At the Sign of the Whale include:
- five bay symmetrical façade;
- two-and-one-half storeys;
- medium pitched gable roof;
- front door with sidelights.
Nearby in the register
- Ebenezer Corning Jr. Houseresidence1 mi
- Stayley Brown Houseresidence2 mi
- Samuel Crowell Houseresidence2 mi
- Greenville United Baptist Churchchurch3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.