Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Rev. James Smith Property
Upper Stewiacke, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1833
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 29 July 1993
- Civic address
- 5305 Highway 289
- Community
- Upper Stewiacke
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.22026, -62.99863
- File number
- Prov_file_173
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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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (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 historical association with the Rev. James Smith, Presbyterian Minister in the Stewiacke River Valley for 41 years, noted scholar and second Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America and because of its subtle Greek Revival detailing in the front elevation and entrance design.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Reverend James Smith Property house include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood frame structure;
- two inset chimneys;
- rear kitchen addition;
- front elevation and entrance design with Greek Revival style detailing;
- large projecting pediment supported by four slender columns, and corresponding pilasters on the façade;
- doorway incorporating pilasters, which demonstrate the Greek Revival technique of entasis, triglyphs, taenia and guttae, in the frieze area, and a heavy cornice;
- small knee windows at the second floor level, beneath the pediment.
- location set back in from the road;
- wood frame barn.