Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Provincial Normal College
Truro, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- 1877
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- Henry Frederick Busch
- Notice of registration date
- 9 July 1998
- Civic address
- 754 Prince Street
- Community
- Truro
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.36412, -63.27868
- File number
- Prov_file_231
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (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
the building's close association with the development of Nova Scotia's public education system, in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Old Provincial Normal College include:
- unpainted brick construction with stone facings;
- contrasting brick relative to the scale;
- cut sandstone sills;
- course granite foundation.
- all Second Empire style elements including: three storeys; symmetrical five bay façade with a central entrance; mansard roof; central projecting tower; pedimented gable dormers; Palladian style windows with segmented keystone arches; round window above the central dormer; repetition of semicircular and circular decorative forms; moulded cornices with support brackets.
Nearby in the register
- First United Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Archibald Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- John Logan Doggett Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Robie Street Cemeterycemtery2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.