Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Stella Maris Convent
Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- convent
- Year built
- 1876
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Notice of registration date
- 18 November 1991
- Civic address
- 159 Denoon Street
- Community
- Pictou
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.67942, -62.70426
- File number
- Prov_file_150
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Sect. No. 2, Caribou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, 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
it was the oldest convent school of the Congregation of Notre Dame in Nova Scotia, which order was first active in Nova Scotia at Louisbourg in the 1740's and because it is an excellent example of the Second Empire style used for Roman Catholic teaching institutions to symbolize culture and order.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Stella Maris Convent include:
- three-storey brick construction;
- large form and massing;
- sandstone quoining;
- Mansard roof;
- gable dormers;
- lugged sills;
- location in close proximity to Stella Maris Church.
Nearby in the register
- Stella Maris Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.