Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bulmer House
Great Village, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1850
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Notice of registration date
- 21 May 1997
- Civic address
- 8740 Highway 2
- Community
- Great Village
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.41634, -63.59959
- File number
- Prov_file_221
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Colchester, 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)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the historical associaiton with poet Elizabeth Bishop, a Pulitzer Prize recipient, whose work incorporated the imagery of the Great Village landscape, and the Bulmer House.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Bulmer House include:
- simple one and one half storey, wood framed house;
- wood clapboard cladding and metal shingle cladding on the roof;
- rectangular, gabled roof main structure with kitchen ell and shed additions;
- entry porches, dormers and sky light addition;
- balanced and symmetrical front façade;
- central porch with a window on either side;
- eight over eight front façade windows;
- six-over-six windows on side elevations.
Nearby in the register
- Layton's General Storecommercialunder 1 mi
- St. James United Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Great Village Schoolschoolhouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.