Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Victoria
Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1907
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Architect/designer
- Willard Morse Mitchell
- Notice of registration date
- 17 August 1990
- Civic address
- 177 Victoria Street
- Community
- Amherst
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.83795, -64.20614
- File number
- Prov_file_127
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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 Kent, New Brunswick (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 house is one of the finest examples of the Queen Anne style in the Province and because its erection reflected the industrial prosperity of Amherst at the beginning of the 20th century.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Queen Anne Revival style of Victoria include:
- asymmetrical massing seen in the corner tower and verandah;
- centered entrance;
- Classical elements, as seen in the verandah columns and bracket supported pediment over the centre window;
- decorative stone and wooden clapboard cladding;
- plain wooden shingles and decorative wooden shingles with a scallop edge;
- irregular floor plans, with several nooks;
- foundation walls built of roughly cut blocks of red sandstone;
- prominent location and siting on a corner property in a central area of the Town of Amherst.
Nearby in the register
- Amherst Dominion Public Buildingpublicunder 1 mi
- Old Amherst Post Officepublicunder 1 mi
- Amherst Intercolonial Railway Stationrailway stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.