Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Lyceum
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1904
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Architect/designer
- George E. Hutchinson, Chappel Bros. & Co. Ltd.
- Builder
- Mr. Farlinger
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1983
- Civic address
- 225 George Street
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.14237, -60.19361
- File number
- Prov_file_2
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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
the building's long association with the cultural development of the City of Sydney and the industrial area of Cape Breton Island and the building's architectural design, unique to a building of this type and to the Province as a whole.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Lyceum include all those elements that convey the association of the building with the cultural development of the City of Sydney and industrial Cape Breton, as well as key elements of the Colonial Revival style, including:
- three-storey pressed brick and firestone structure;
- rectangular symmetrical façade;
- foundation to entablature brick pilasters;
- two symmetrically placed entrances;
- rectangular transoms over entrances;
- ornate broken Tuscan style pediment with truncated paired pilasters over each entrance;
- symmetrically placed round windows;
- ground floor quoins;
- rounded keystone arch windows with eyebrows;
- location in the heart of Sydney.
Nearby in the register
- Sacred Heart Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Cossit Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Kennedy Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.