Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Hillsdale House
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- inn
- Year built
- 1859
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Notice of registration date
- 14 June 1991
- Civic address
- 519 St. George Street
- Community
- Annapolis Royal
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.74052, -65.51100
- File number
- Prov_file_135
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 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 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, 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
it so well incorporates several interesting details of the Italiante style and because of its associations, as an inn, with such distinguished guests as King George V, when Prince of Wales and Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Hillsdale House relate to its Italianate style and include:
- form and massing;
- set back from the street on large , open lot;
- timber frame;
- moderately pitched gable roof;
- symmetrical three bay façade;
- centred doorway;
- double arched windows;
- second floor pilasters and paired bracketed return eave;
- deep, projecting portico supported by paired turned columns;
- open deck enclosed with ornate balustrade;
- second floor balcony over portico;
- first floor windows with bracketed shelves;
- second floor, and, all other windows double 1-over-1 with slender surrounds;
- recessed corner boards and wide banded fascia.
Nearby in the register
- deGannes-Cosby Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Queen Anne Inninnunder 1 mi
- Girvan Bank-Runciman Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Annapolis County Court Housepublicunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.