Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Henry Marshall Jost House
Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1863
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Notice of registration date
- 13 February 1991
- Civic address
- 62 Main Street
- Community
- Guysborough
- County
- Guysborough
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.39115, -61.49744
- File number
- Prov_file_132
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
The 1901 map covering this location: "Eastern Half of Nova Scotia." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (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 building's association with the Jost family, one of the best known families in Guysborough County, and because of its importance in maintaining the heritage character of the Main Street of Guysborough.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to Jost House include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood frame construction;
- gable roof;
- large rear wing;
- Scottish dormers on either side of the central gable dormer, which incorporates a Palladian window;
- two inset chimneys in the main part of the house;
- prominent location on Main Street backed by the Guysborough Harbour in close proximity to a former Jost-owned store.
Nearby in the register
- Harbour Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Old Guysborough Court Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Walsh Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.