Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Elisha Calkin House
Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1793
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Notice of registration date
- 15 August 1990
- Civic address
- 63 Main Street
- Community
- Liverpool
- County
- Queens
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.04118, -64.71065
- File number
- Prov_file_126
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
because of its successive ownership, since its erection in 1793 and over a continuous period of 179 years, by the interrelated families of Elisha Calkin and William Kenny, who were especially prominent in the mercantile and civic history of the 19th century Liverpool.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Elisha Calkin House relating to its New England Colonial style include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- central entrance;
- five bay front façade;
- windows tight to the eave line;
- two inset chimneys;
- wooden quoining at the corners;
- kitchen wing addition;
- prominent location on Main Street.
Nearby in the register
- Perkins Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Liverpool Courthousepublicunder 1 mi
- Fort Point Lighthouselighthouseunder 1 mi
- Liverpool Town Hall/Astor Theatrepublicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.