Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Parker Farm
Belleisle, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1791
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Builder
- Obadiah Parker
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 3 May 1985
- Civic address
- 6568 Highway 1
- Community
- Belleisle
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.80287, -65.41137
- File number
- Prov_file_28
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
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 Digby, 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the age of this structure and its value as an excellently maintained example of Nova Scotia's early brick construction.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the main house of Parker Farm include:
- the retangular form and massing of the one-and-a-half storey brick structure;
- gable roof with a large central gable above the main door;
- full below-ground basement, paved with bricks;
- exterior wall constructed of two single brick walls, with several inches of insulating air space in between;
- three bay facade;
- recessed central entrance with sidelights;
- 6/6 windows with shutters.
- the summer kitchen, with a frame structure adjoining converted barn and Indian door.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.