Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Lawson House
Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1897
- Decade built
- 1890-1899
- Notice of registration date
- 27 April 1998
- Civic address
- 64 William Street
- Community
- Yarmouth
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.83293, -66.11778
- File number
- Prov_file_227
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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 building's association with J. Murray Lawson, newspaper publisher, historian, and author.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Lawson House include:
- wood frame;
- variety of wood cladding – first storey clad with clapboard and shingles on second storey;
- belt course with bell cast separates storeys;
- enclosed entrance porch;
- second floor balcony supported by turned columns with Corinthian capitals;
- two-and-a-half storeys;
- shallow cross gabled back ell;
- steeply pitched gable roof;
- return eaves;
- boxed in recessed Gothic arches under gables;
- centred two-tiered wall dormer breaking bracketed eaves line in front;
- symmetrical three bay façade;
- centred entrance with stained glass side and transom lights;
- balconies under side and rear attic windows;
- double hung sashed window;
- Palladian window in front dormer;
- spindlework balustrades on veranda and balconies.
Nearby in the register
- MacKinnon-Cann Innresidenceunder 1 mi
- Charles Richards Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Augustus Cann Estateresidenceunder 1 mi
- Guest Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.