Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Oldest House
Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Notice of registration date
- 12 June 2019
- Civic address
- 80 Pelham Street
- Community
- Lunenburg
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.37693, -64.31126
- File number
- Prov_file_307
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 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 · 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
stone foundation; wood-framed construction;central brick chimney; wood-clapboards cladding; one-and-one half storey façade along Pelham Street with modified five-bay and central entrance with sidelights; along with 2 6 over 6 windows in the right bay; and off-set double-doored entrance and fixed square wood-window to the left bay; 2 and 1 half storey home along its south-facing facade; Gambrel roof with central bayed-dormers on the north and south-facing facades, along with a pair of simple gable-roofed dormer windows on the south-facing facade; and various windows within the building, typicaly with 6 over 6 pattern.
Nearby in the register
- St. John's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Knaut Rhuland Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Solomon Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Lennox Tavernresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.