Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
James House Museum
Bridgetown, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1835
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Cultural association
- British Colonial
- Notice of registration date
- 29 December 1998
- Civic address
- 12 Queen Street
- Community
- Bridgetown
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.84108, -65.29103
- File number
- Prov_file_234
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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 property's association with merchant Richard James, and its role as an architectural landmark and focus for heritage within the area.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of James House include:
- asymmetrical structural plan;
- clapboard exterior;
- large first floor bay windows;
- rubble stone foundation;
- all Neo-classical elements, including two and a half storey and five bay façade;
- all Regency style elements, including second storey covered gallery with balcony; five storm doors, each with six panes of glass, on the doors of the covered gallery; medium pitched gable roof with flare bellcast eaves of the front roof slope.
Nearby in the register
- Rothsay Masonic Templecommercialunder 1 mi
- Morse-Magwood Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Morse Cemeterycemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.