Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Gilbert's Cove Lighthouse
Gilbert's Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1904
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Notice of registration date
- 18 June 1991
- Civic address
- 244 Lighthouse Road
- Community
- Gilbert's Cove
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.49420, -65.95226
- File number
- Prov_file_141
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Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
The 1879 map covering this location: "County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with a native of Gilbert's Cove, William Melanson and his family, its first and only keeper of the light, and because of the style of lighthouse, with a centrally mounted lantern, is one of only two known to have survived in the province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements associated with the unique style of Gilbert's Cove Lighthouse include:
-the form and massing of the lighthouse
-centrally mounted lantern
-square floor plan
-wood shingle cladding
-hipped roof
-wood-framed lean to on side of building
-wooden sash windows with four over four pane arrangement
-context of isolated building on point of land extending from shoreline
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.