Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Shakespear House
Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1784
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Builder
- Stephen Shakespear
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 2 October 1989
- Civic address
- 17 George Street
- Community
- Shelburne
- County
- Shelburne
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.75902, -65.32133
- File number
- Prov_file_109
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
is most likely the oldest standing building in the Town of Shelburne, and because it is the only surviving one known to have been originally constructed of logs, and then clapboard over.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Shakespear House include:
- all evidence of original log construction;
- original stone chimney;
- wooden clapboard siding;
- location in original town plot;
- cedar shingles on roof;
- stone hearths;
- five bay symmetrical façade;
- simple façade, no decoration with exception of dentils.
Nearby in the register
- White-Irwin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Ross Thomson Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Joseph McGill Company Officecommercialunder 1 mi
- Etherington-Robertson Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.