Sinclair Inn

Reason for registration

because it combines in its construction history, buildings dating from the Acadian and early British Colonial periods, and because of its role in the history of Annapolis Royal as an inn through much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Character-defining elements

Character-defining elements of the Sinclair Inn include:

- historic clapboard on front and the street elevation;
- A-dormer on the top of the front door with fanlight;
- all Georgian style elements including: five bay symmetrical façade, fanlights, and twelve-over-eight double hung windows;
- wooden paneled doors for both street and front entrance;
- all Classical elements including: Classically detailed pediment, prominent front entrance with door mouldings, and transom;
- all elements that demonstrate the Acadian and French methods of construction including waddle and daub insulated wall cavities, stenciled floorboards re-used as supports for new lathing, trim, wainscoting, and mural painted on all four walls of the second floor room facing St. George Street (presently covered by wallpaper).