Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Quaker Whaler House
Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1786
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Cultural association
- Quaker
- Notice of registration date
- 4 August 1983
- Civic address
- 57 Ochterloney Street
- Community
- Dartmouth
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.66696, -63.56828
- File number
- Prov_file_18
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, 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)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this property's association with the development of the City of Dartmouth, the history of the provincial whaling industry, the Quaker community in Nova Scotia, and the age of the building, which pre-dates 1812.
Character-defining elements
Character-Defining Elements of the Quaker House include:
- heavy timber framing;
- wood shingled façade;
- two and a half storeys;
- asymetrical façade with six-over-six wooden windows and off-centre door;
- original stone foundation under front section of house;
- position close to the street;
- unadorned façade;
- remians of original fireplaces and chimneys;
- historic side addition with slightly bellcast roof.
Nearby in the register
- St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Churchchurch1 mi
- Round Church (Little Dutch Church)church1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurch1 mi
- West-Buley Houseresidence1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.