Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Kennedy House
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1786
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Notice of registration date
- 28 November 1996
- Civic address
- 89 Esplanade
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.14270, -60.19858
- File number
- Prov_file_217
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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 property's association, as a surviving 18th century structure, with the founding and early development of Sydney.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Kennedy House include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- gable roof;
- a central doorway in the rear elevation, with two windows on either side and a narrow, gable dormer over the rear entrance;
- slightly inset large chimney;
- two gable dormers on the front elevation.
Nearby in the register
- St. Patrick's Churchmuseumunder 1 mi
- Cossit Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Jost Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.