Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
West-Buley House
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1878
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- Henry Stephen Elliot
- Notice of registration date
- 16 April 1992
- Civic address
- 2146 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.65299, -63.58198
- File number
- Prov_file_153
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Halifax, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Plate C. Part of Ward 5, Halifax. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (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 is a rare example, in Nova Scotia, of the Gothic Revival style in brick masonry for terrace housing and because of its importance to the heritage character of Brunswick Street.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Gothic Revival style of the West-Buley House include:
- two-and-a-half storey brick masonry construction;
- mansard roof, with truncated dormers and original slates;
- second floor window arcade with pointed arches, stone archivolts and wooden tracery;
- its continuity with the attached West-Osler property and the surrounding streetscape.
Nearby in the register
- West-Osler House (Personage House)residenceunder 1 mi
- West-Webster Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.