Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Caldwell House
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1840
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Notice of registration date
- 25 September 1990
- Civic address
- 1714 Robie Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.64369, -63.58912
- File number
- Prov_file_125
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Halifax, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1879 · County of Kings, 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
the house was built by William Caldwell, the first mayor of Halifax to be elected by direct vote, and because it is a rare example of the Regency style in Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Caldwell House include:
- cornice and frieze incorporating triglyphs;
- wood relief details on underside of roof;
- double stone foundation;
- blackened out window on south façade.
Character-defining elements of the Regency style of the Caldwell House include:
- one-and-a-half storeys, symmetrical three bay façade;
- low-pitched hip roof;
- roof extends over a wide veranda with twelve fluted Doric columns;
- four dormers facing each of the four directions;
- central doorway with transom window and sidelights;
- large first floor windows.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Crest Apartmentsapartmentunder 1 mi
- Bollard Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Hunter-Forbes Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- The Jubilee Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.