Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Gardenia Lodge-Savary House
Plympton, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1820
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 2 April 1990
- Civic address
- 7410 Highway 101
- Community
- Plympton
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.51137, -65.90639
- File number
- Prov_file_116
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Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
The 1879 map covering this location: "County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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
its intimate association with the descendants of the Loyalists, Nathan and Deidamia Savary, and especially of the Honourable Alfred William Savary, LL.D. (1831-1920), judge, parliamentarian, historian and antiquarian.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Gardenia Lodge-Savary House relating to its New England Colonial style include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- form and massing;
- five bay front façade;
- 12 x 12 white pine, hand hewn and pegged frame;
- summer kitchen, rear wing and front vestibule addition;
- clad in clapboard;
- three chimneys;
- prominent location across from family cemetery and provincial park;
- wooden barn.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.