Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Liverpool Town Hall/Astor Theatre
Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1901
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Architect/designer
- Herbert Gates
- Notice of registration date
- 24 August 1995
- Civic address
- 219 Main Street
- Community
- Liverpool
- County
- Queens
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.03870, -64.71518
- File number
- Prov_file_198
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3 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 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
is an important example of the work of architect Herbert Gates; and it is unique in Nova Scotia, as a nineteenth century town hall combining civic offices and a public auditorium.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Liverpool Town Hall and Astor Theatre that relate to is dual function include:
- two units as part of one larger exterior structure, each with its own entrance, sitting back to back;
- front section of building serving as Town Hall with principal entrance off Main Street treated formally with an open pediment supported by free standing columns, and rear section serving as a theatre.
Character-defining elements of the Liverpool Town Hall and Astor Theatre include:
- wood construction;
- hipped roof with gable roof projection on either ends of the front façade;
- brackets beneath the eaves;
- round headed windows in the attic;
- dormer window on front façade;
- birch stairway off the main floor hallway.
Nearby in the register
- Liverpool Courthousepublicunder 1 mi
- Perkins Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Elisha Calkin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- John and Phebe West Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.