Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bower (The)
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1790
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Architect/designer
- Piers Brookfield
- Cultural association
- British Colonial
- Notice of registration date
- 19 February 1990
- Civic address
- 5918 Rogers Drive
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.62861, -63.57953
- File number
- Prov_file_115
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its close historical association with Brenton Halliburton, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia from 1833 to 1860 and the diarist and diplomat Charles Ritchie and because it is one of the oldest and best known residences in Halifax.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the The Bower include:
- mansard roof on the main section and a pyramid roof on the library extension;
- symmetrical facade of main building;
- wood clapboard cladding;
- location in Halifax's South End;
- all original elements include portico entry, century chimney pots, original site orientation;
- two-over-two windows with 'eye brow' dormers on the second storey.
Nearby in the register
- George Wright Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Thorndeanresidenceunder 1 mi
- Universalist Unitarian Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Fort Massey United Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.