Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Captain Joseph Hall House
Granville Ferry, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Notice of registration date
- 27 January 2021
- Civic address
- 5287 Granville Road
- Community
- Granville Ferry
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.74790, -65.52628
- File number
- Prov_file_312
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, 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
its age built in 1881, architecture and association with the seafaring industry and its people of Granville Ferry. In addition to its architecture, character-defining elements; which includes its: two-and-one half storey wooden structure with brick foundation; medium-pitched gable roof with return eaves and pilasters; wooden clapboard siding with corner boards; hung windows; heavy window caps with dentils; dentil moulding embellishng the eave lines; open verandah with a temple pediment, decorstive posts and balustrades; two-storey bayed windows with truncated hipped roofs that are steeply-pitched; dormer windows above the two bayed windows on the southeast facing side façade; and two-and-one-half storey wooden carriage house with Greek Revival detailing similar to the main house.
Nearby in the register
- Bailey Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Adams Ritchie Housecommercialunder 1 mi
- Sinclair Inncommercialunder 1 mi
- St. Luke's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.