Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Samuel Crowell House
Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1896
- Decade built
- 1890-1899
- Notice of registration date
- 8 July 1992
- Civic address
- 109 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Yarmouth
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.84853, -66.11101
- File number
- Prov_file_157
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its association with Samuel Crowell and his wife Mary Edna (Corning) and George Killam and his family, two of Yarmouth's most prominent businessmen, and it is a fine example, in Nova Scotia, of the Queen Anne style.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Samuel Crowell House relate to its Queen Anne Revival style and include:
- irregular form and massing;
- projecting bays;
- corner tower;
- wood frame and wood cladding that ranges from clapboard to scalloped shingles;
- heavy pedimented dormer;
- hip roof;
- irregular shaped windows including triangular shaped window on third floor, octagonal window on second floor;
- stained glass in several windows.
Character-defining elements of the Samuel Crowell carriage house include:
- mansard roof;
- two storeys;
- wood shingle cladding;
- dormer windows in second storey;
- sliding barn-style door.
Nearby in the register
- Stayley Brown Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Ebenezer Corning Jr. Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Guest Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Lovitt Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.