Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Gilbert Grosvenor Hall
Baddeck, Victoria, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1885
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- Thomas Fuller
- Notice of registration date
- 6 December 1983
- Civic address
- 532 Chebucto Street
- Community
- Baddeck
- County
- Victoria
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.10094, -60.74822
- File number
- Prov_file_23
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the property's value as a fine example of a post office of this period.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Gilbert H. Grosvenor Hall, with Romanesque Revival elements, include:
- central location in the Village of Baddeck;
- heavy stone work with rounded arches over doors and windows;
- copper and slate high hipped roof;
- decorative features include carvings, voussoirs, sills, dormers and gables;
- post office clock in the west gable;
- face carved in stone above the main entrance;
- red sandstone construction.
- one stone chimney located on the east side;
- one offset stone chimney located on the south-west corner.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.