Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Harmony Lodge #52
Aylesford, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- lodge
- Year built
- 1929
- Decade built
- 1920-1929
- Architect/designer
- Leslie Fairn
- Notice of registration date
- 14 October 1997
- Civic address
- 1290 Victoria Road
- Community
- Aylesford
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.03028, -64.83751
- File number
- Prov_file_225
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, 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)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this structure is a rare example of an intact lodge building, a building type representing the important role played by fraternal societies in many Nova Scotian communities, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Harmony Lodge #52 relate to its use as a fraternal lodge building and include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood frame construction;
- pressed metal cladding;
- gable roof;
- six-over-one sash windows;
- gabled portico surmounting front entrance, supported by turned columns;
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.