Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Lawrence House
Maitland, East Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- c.1870
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Notice of registration date
- 8 April 1983
- Civic address
- 8660 Highway 215
- Community
- Maitland
- County
- East Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.32266, -63.50252
- File number
- Prov_file_12
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, 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)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this property's association with the shipbuilding industry and with the master shipbuilder, William Dawson Lawrence.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements associated with Lawrence House and the surrounding grounds include:
-Building form and massing
-Five-bay façade with steep pitched gable roof
-Central windows with symmetrical sidelights on ground floor and second floor
-Italianate detailed pediment on portico
-Double-loaded, wrapping front stairway
-Two symmetrical central chimneys
-Symmetrical rear ell with verandahs either side, and two out buildings
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.