Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Clifton Museum Park (Haliburton House)
Windsor, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1836
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Notice of registration date
- 4 August 1983
- Civic address
- 424 Clifton Avenue
- Community
- Windsor
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.98892, -64.14247
- File number
- Prov_file_13
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 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 · 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 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
the property's close association with the well known Nova Scotian author, lawyer and politician, Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the unique Italianate villa style seen in Haliburton House include:
- villa building form and massing;
- hipped roof and remnants of the original roof, including light wells and raised belvedere;
- projecting dormers from bedroom wings and wooden portico;
- gardens and surrounding grounds.
Nearby in the register
- Convocation Hallschoolunder 1 mi
- Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Thornton Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Christ Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.