Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Ilsley Homestead
Somerset, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1860
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Notice of registration date
- 27 June 2000
- Civic address
- 4127 Brooklyn Street
- Community
- Somerset
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.06951, -64.75892
- File number
- Prov_file_243
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 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 Saint John, New Brunswick (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 association of this building with the Right Hon. James Lorimer Ilsley, Q.C., Chief Justice of Nova Scotia and federal Minister of finance during World War II.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Ilsley Homestead include:
- one-and-a-half storey wood frame structure;
- end gables and a steeply pitched gable breaking the front eavesline;
- round headed window in front dormer;
- large gable porch;
- 6/6 sash replica windows;
- large chimney on the west end;
- single storey bay window on the east end;
- clad in clapboard;
- all landscape features relating to use of land as a farm within the boundaries described in the Schedule A.