Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Jost House
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1786
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Cultural association
- German, Foreign Protestant
- Notice of registration date
- 3 March 1995
- Civic address
- 54 Charlotte Street
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.14360, -60.19885
- File number
- Prov_file_189
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sydney, Canada. Coal Resources of the World. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the oldest surviving building in Sydney and likely on Cape Breton Island, and because architecturally it demonstrates two centuries of building history, including especially the contemporary issues of interpretation and conservation.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the exterior of Jost House include:
- close proximity to the street;
- full rubblestone foundation;
- two-storey, wood frame structure;
- all Neo-classical elements including 6/6 six windows and surrounds, and clapboard on first storey and on the original second storey gable end sections of north and south facades, and the gable roof and two dormer windows on the front facade;
- all late Victorian Plain style elements including low pitched roof, 2/2 double hung windows and surrounds, and shingle cladding on second storey.
Nearby in the register
- Cossit Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- St. Patrick's Churchmuseumunder 1 mi
- Kennedy Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.