Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Guest House
Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1876
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Notice of registration date
- 16 January 2001
- Civic address
- 12 Parade Street
- Community
- Yarmouth
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.83783, -66.11788
- File number
- Prov_file_246
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, 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
this building's superb demonstration of the Italianate style, as applied to a residential design.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Guest House include:
- narrow clapboard cladding;
- location close to the Yarmouth waterfront.
Character-defining elements of the Italianate style of the Guest House include:
- two storey, three bay, symmetrical façade with central doorway;
- slightly pitched hip roof with square belvedere at peak;
- pair of third inset chimneys;
- bracketed window and door hoods, sills, wide eaves, and cornices;
- corner and frieze boards with portholes;
- one-storey three sided bay windows on either side of the main entrance with round headed upper sashes;
- windows on east and west sides of first storey are tripartite, and second storey windows are paired.
Nearby in the register
- Lovitt Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- MacKinnon-Cann Innresidenceunder 1 mi
- Charles Richards Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Augustus Cann Estateresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.