Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Borden House
Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1792
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Builder
- Roswell Pelton
- Notice of registration date
- 18 May 1999
- Civic address
- 1999 Grand Pre Road
- Community
- Grand Pre
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.10015, -64.30501
- File number
- Prov_file_239
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 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)
- 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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (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 historical association with Sir Robert Laird Borden; Prime Minister of Canada during World War I.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Neo-Classical style architecture of Borden House include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood-frame construction;
- symmetrical, five-bay front façade;
- wood shingle clad, with plain wooden cornerboards;
- central door set in a hip-roofed porch with sidelights;
- original central chimney; end chimney added later;
- 9/6 windows;
- large peaked dormers on the roof;
- round-headed dormer windows, with small capital mouldings;
- gable-roofed ell at the rear of the house;
- gable-roofed, wooden shingle-clad barn attached behind the house;
- diamond-shaped window in the gable end of the attached barn.
Nearby in the register
- Covenanter Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Jeremiah Calkin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Stewart HouseB&Bunder 1 mi
- GowanBraeresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.