Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
White-Irwin House
Shelburne, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1784
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 7 January 1993
- Civic address
- 119 Water Street
- Community
- Shelburne
- County
- Shelburne
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.75993, -65.32180
- File number
- Prov_file_167
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (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 association with the family of the noted Loyalist, Gideon White, and as the residence of Robert Irwin, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, 1937-40.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the White-Irwin House relate to its Neo-classical style and include:
- form and massing;
- two-and-a-half storey main house;
- symmetrical five bay façade of main house;
- one-storey ell;
- hipped roof;
- capped six-over-six windows on front and side façades;
- wooden cladding;
- location close to street and close proximity to houses of similar age and style;
- prominent location on Water Street.
Nearby in the register
- Shakespear Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Ross Thomson Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Joseph McGill Company Officecommercialunder 1 mi
- Etherington-Robertson Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.