Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Fraser-Octagon House
Tatamagouche, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1857
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Architect/designer
- Orson S. Fowler
- Builder
- James Talbot
- Notice of registration date
- 31 March 1993
- Civic address
- 63 Church Street
- Community
- Tatamagouche
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.71127, -63.29186
- File number
- Prov_file_171
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Queens and Kings, Prince Edward Island (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its eight-sided style, in a domestic residence, is unique to Nova Scotia as far as is known and its construction date of 1857 makes it a rare early-Canadian example of this type of building.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Fraser Octagon House include:
- one and a half storey wood frame structure built to near octagonal plan form (two walls are slightly longer);
- one-storey addition added on the driveway side of the house some time after the original construction but before the end of the nineteenth century;
- Greek Revival pilasters and entablature at the front entrance;
- prominent location on a corner lot.
Nearby in the register
- Lynwoodresidenceunder 1 mi
- Margaret Fawcett Norrie Heritage Centremuseumunder 1 mi
- Tatamagouche Intercolonial Railway Station (Train Station Inn)railway stationunder 1 mi
- William Campbell Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.