Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Smith's Cove Baptist Meeting House
Smith's Cove, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1834
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Builder
- Benjamin Potter
- Notice of registration date
- 7 March 1994
- Civic address
- 590 Highway 1
- Community
- Smith's Cove
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.61112, -65.70672
- File number
- Prov_file_184
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 Archive
2 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)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its close historical association, since its erection in 1837, with the Baptists of Smith's Cove and especially until 1972, with the temperance movement.
Character-defining elements
Character-Defining Elements of the Smith’s Cove Baptist Meeting House and Temperance Hall related to its Gothic Revival architecture and public meeting house and include:
- location in the centre of the village of Smith’s Cove;
- wooden frame;
- front facing gable roof;
- wooden clapboard cladding;
- two separate doorways on front elevation;
- pointed arched panels surmounted by an entablature with dentils above front doors;
- Gothic Revival pilasters;
- Gothic Revival arched window centered between two front doors on second storey;
- Gothic Revival windows along each side;
- wide corner boards and dentils;
- cut granite and rubble foundation.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.