Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Universalist Unitarian Church
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1823
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 1 August 1984
- Civic address
- 5500 Inglis Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.63497, -63.57304
- File number
- Prov_file_32
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Plate K. Part of Ward 1, Halifax. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, 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
its historical associations through various owners and tenants, its architectural evolution and a certain contextual value.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Universalist Unitarian Church include:
- parged undressed slate and ironstone building materials;
- asymmetrical façade;
- partial mansard roof with roof cornice;
- five vertical sliding elongated gabled windows on front elevation;
- end chimney with early chimney pots;
- enclosed porch;
- evidence of original gable roof;
- location in south end Halifax.
Nearby in the register
- Thorndeanresidenceunder 1 mi
- George Wright Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Fort Massey United Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- The Henry Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.