Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Joseph's Glebe House
St. Joseph, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1908
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Notice of registration date
- 8 July 1992
- Civic address
- 2733 Ohio East Road
- Community
- St. Joseph
- County
- Antigonish
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.53911, -62.07749
- File number
- Prov_file_158
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (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)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with the Roman Catholic Church in one of the earliest settled parts of Antigonish County and it is a largely unaltered example of the Second Empire style used for Glebe Houses in late 19th and early 20th century Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of St. Joseph’s Glebe House include:
- four-bay façade;
- three covered verandas with supporting posts;
- two protruding bay windows;
- tall slender chimneys;
- decorative trim around the verandah;
- location overlooking a lake in a pastoral setting close to St. Joseph’s Church.
Character-defining elements of the Second Empire style of St. Joseph’s Glebe House include:
- Mansard roof with two individual dormers extending through the eave line;
- pediments above dormers in each section of the roof;
- projecting central tower with a steeply pitched hip roof;
- tall windows with surround moldings.