Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Halifax Academy
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1878
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- Henry Frederick Busch
- Notice of registration date
- 6 December 1983
- Civic address
- 1668 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.64582, -63.57616
- File number
- Prov_file_21
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (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 association with the Dalhousie Law School, the first Law School to be established in the Commonwealth.
Character-defining elements
The character-defining elements of Halifax Academy include:
- unpainted, patterned, red brick construction;
- cut sandstone sills;
- course granite foundation;
- all elements related to its Second Empire style including the mansard roof with projecting dormers; the central entrance pavilion and two end pavilions; the five bay facade; the central tower;
- all elements which relate to its Italianate stylistic influences including its detailed, symmetrical exterior style and round headed windows;
- prominent location on the corner of Brunswick and Sackville Streets.
Nearby in the register
- Grafton Street Methodist Churchchurch, graveyardunder 1 mi
- St. Paul's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Bollard Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's Basilicachurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.