Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Eisenhauer House
Chester Basin, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1779, 1823
- Decade built
- 1770-1779, 1820-1829
- Cultural association
- New England Planter, German
- Notice of registration date
- 4 January 1996
- Civic address
- 430 Borgalds Point Road
- Community
- Chester Basin
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.54965, -64.30428
- File number
- Prov_file_200
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
4 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)
- 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 Hants, 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
the building's unique form of construction; and its historical associations with both New England Planter and German settlement in the area.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of Eisenhauer House include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood frame construction;
- post and beam construction;
- built into a steep hillside with the rear of the lower entry level built into the hill;
- gable roof;
- main entrance slighty off centre on the front elevation;
- slightly asymmetrical arrangement of windows on either side of the main entrance;
- small pediment projects over the entrance;
- central chimney, aligned with the entrance;
- clad in wood shingles;
- rubble stone foundation.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.