Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
West-Webster House
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1874
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Notice of registration date
- 1 August 1996
- Civic address
- 2138 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.65286, -63.58185
- File number
- Prov_file_214
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Halifax, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Plate C. Part of Ward 5, Halifax. (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 is an important example, in Nova Scotia, of the Gothic Revival style in brick masonry; and, because of its importance to the heritage character of Brunswick Street.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the West-Webster House include:
- brick masonry;
- three sided bay window with two-over-two windows on first storey;
- dormers with two-over-two windows.
Character-defining elements of the Gothic Revival style of the West Webster House include:
- second floor window arcade with pointed arches and wooden tracery;
- prominent front entrance with pointed arch transom.
Character-defining elements of the Second Empire style of the West Webster House include:
- mansard roof;
- truncated dormers;
- brackets beneath the eaves.
Nearby in the register
- West-Osler House (Personage House)residenceunder 1 mi
- West-Buley Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.