Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Stayley Brown House
Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1864
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 28 November 1996
- Civic address
- 12 Vancouver Street
- Community
- Yarmouth
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.85154, -66.11659
- File number
- Prov_file_216
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, 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 associations of this property with the Hon. Stayley Brown, prominent Yarmouth businessman, Provincial Treasurer, and for 34 years, member of the Executive Council.
Character-defining elements
The character defining elements of the Stayley Brown House include:
- location at the head of Yarmouth Harbour;
- single family dwelling;
- large, well landscaped lot.
The character defining elements of the Italianate style of the Stayley Brown House include:
- two storeys with a one-and-a-half storey back ell and a semi-enclosed breezeway connecting to garage on west side;
- wood construction and shingle cladding;
- medium pitched, truncated gable roof;
- centred front cross gable, return eaves and bracketed cornices;
- Scotch dormer in back;
- three inset chimneys on main roof, inset corbelled chimney on ell;
- symmetrical three bay facade;
- centred, conservatory-style front entry porch;
- centred Palladian window above entry porch;
- tripartite triangular-headed window in front gable;
- tripartite windows with double hung sashes in first and second storey of facade and west gable end;
- bracketed crowns on facade windows;
- one storey cutaway bay window in east gable end;
- acanthus shaped cutouts at apex of gabled crowns on first storey bays;
- six-over-six glazing in most windows in east gable end and back;
- granite block foundation.
Nearby in the register
- Samuel Crowell Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Ebenezer Corning Jr. Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Lovitt Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Guest Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.