Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Mount Hanley School Section #10
Mount Hanley, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- schoolhouse
- Year built
- 1850
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Architect/designer
- William Dawson
- Notice of registration date
- 16 May 1995
- Civic address
- 2130 Mount Hanley Road
- Community
- Mount Hanley
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.96642, -65.17396
- File number
- Prov_file_193
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 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 Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 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
it is one of the earliest examples of the simple, functional design inspired by William Dawson's pamphlet "School Architecture - Abridged from Barnard's School Architecture" and because among those attended were the first Acadia University woman graduate, Clara Belle Marshall, and Joshua Slocum, the first to sail single-handedly around the world.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Mount Hanley School Section No. 10 include:
- wood frame construction;
- front facing gable roof;
- rectangular plan incorporates a main classroom, as well as an entry hall/boy's coat room and a girl's room;
- wooden shed attached to the rear with a gable roof and separate entrance;
- clad in wood shingles;
- asphalt shingle roof;
- each side elevation has three 9/6 sash windows;
- 4/4 sash window on either side of the entrance;
- smaller fixed sash window over entrance, at attic level.