Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
MacMillan-Cameron House
Inverness, Inverness, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1908
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Notice of registration date
- 13 March 2002
- Civic address
- 15726 Highway 19
- Community
- Inverness
- County
- Inverness
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.22656, -61.30840
- File number
- Prov_file_252
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the property's association with an early period of industrialization and development in the region, and its reflection of the entrepreneurial spirit of an early 20th century businesswoman.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of MacMillan-Cameron House relating to its Queen Anne Revival style include:
- 2 1/2 storey wood frame construction;
- clad in wood shingle with a steeply pitched hipped roof;
- basic massing and proportions demonstrate the four-square style, including the roof profile, the dormer placement, and the general simplicity of exterior decorative detail;
- two storey corner tower with decorative shingle pattern and double belt course between the first and second storey.