Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Harbour House
Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1790
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Notice of registration date
- 31 March 1993
- Civic address
- 163 Green Street
- Community
- Guysborough
- County
- Guysborough
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.38936, -61.49646
- File number
- Prov_file_170
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
The 1901 map covering this location: "Eastern Half of Nova Scotia." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 construction dates from the early years of settlement of Guysborough Town and because of its close association with William Francis Cook, prominent religious lay leader and fish merchant.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Harbour House include:
- one-and-one-half storey, wood frame structure;
- Gable roof with two Scottish dormers and a central gable dormer with Palladian window;
- two-over- two sash windows;
- exterior wood shingle cladding;
Nearby in the register
- Henry Marshall Jost Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Old Guysborough Court Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Walsh Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.