Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Captain James Embree House
Port Hawkesbury, Inverness, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1880
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 21 March 1995
- Civic address
- 209 Granville Street
- Community
- Port Hawkesbury
- County
- Inverness
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.61641, -61.36516
- File number
- Prov_file_191
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with the Embree family, notably Captain James Embree, with the establishment in 1859 of the first regular ferry service across the Strait of Canso and its continuance until 1932 and because the house's exterior is relatively unaltered since its construction in 1880.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the exterior of the Captain Embree House include:
- brackets under eaves and widow and door roofs;
- dentils under window and door roofs;
- hipped roof over windows and doors;
- wooden clapboard cladding;
- sandstone foundation;
- one-and-one-half storeys;
- gable roof;
- cross gable ell;
- corner pilasters;
- original side and front doors.