Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Turner House
New Minas, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residential, commercial
- Year built
- c.1850
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 27 August 1990
- Civic address
- 8876 Commercial Street
- Community
- New Minas
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.06837, -64.46688
- File number
- Prov_file_123
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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
the land and house have remained in the continuous ownership of the descendants of the New England Planter John Turner, and because it is the oldest surviving building in New Minas and in a largely unaltered state.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the New England Colonial style of the Turner House include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- two chimneys inset from either end;
- cornerboards with classically inspired capitals;
- centered entrance in the front elevation;
- two-storey projecting bays on either side on the front entrance;
- two-storey bay on the east elevation;
- kitchen/living wing to the rear;
- stone and brick foundation;
- log and hand hewn floor joists;
- one-and-a-half storey wood barn.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.