Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bread & Roses
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- B&B
- Year built
- c.1880
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Notice of registration date
- 18 October 1993
- Civic address
- 82 Victoria Street
- Community
- Annapolis Royal
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.74337, -65.51653
- File number
- Prov_file_177
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 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 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (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
it is a rare, and possibly unique, example in Nova Scotia of a brick masonry Queen Anne Revival house, demonstrating architectural details uncommon in North American examples of this style.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Bread and Roses Country Inn relating to its Queen Anne Revival style include:
- two-and-a-half storey, brick masonry structure;
- hipped roof with several gables, all covered in slates;
- asymmetrical elevations, irregular floor plans and complex massing;
- projecting bays, oriel windows, heavy pediments and inset porches;
- steeply pitched hip roof, broken with several large, pedimented gables, and roof cresting;
- large chimney rising at the gable end;
- finely cut freestone for string courses, quoining, lintels and sills.
Nearby in the register
- St. Luke's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Annapolis County Court Housepublicunder 1 mi
- Sinclair Inncommercialunder 1 mi
- Adams Ritchie Housecommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.