Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
MacDonald House
Iona, Victoria, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1830
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Cultural association
- Scottish, Gaelic
- Notice of registration date
- 19 February 1990
- Civic address
- 4119, Highway 223
- Community
- Iona
- County
- Victoria
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.94818, -60.81877
- File number
- Prov_file_113
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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)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is among the few surviving and largely unaltered examples of the Scottish Vernacular once familiar in Highland Scottish Cape Breton settlements of the 19th century and because it remained in the family of Norman MacDonald, a native of North Uist, Scotland, until 1960.
Character-defining elements
Character defining elements of Mac Donald House as a Scottish style house include:
- one-and-one-half storey, wood construction with a stacked field stone foundation;
- steeply pitched gable roof, with wooden shingles and a centrally placed chimney;
- wooden clapboard exterior with corner boards and return eaves;
- transom with three-panel fanlight;
- three bay façade with six-over-six and three-over-three windows.