Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Paradise Academy
Paradise, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- schoolhouse
- Notice of registration date
- 18 September 2025
- Civic address
- 10307 Highway 1
- Community
- Paradise
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.86990, -65.21104
- File number
- Prov_file_320
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 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 Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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 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
its heritage value based on its age, architecture, associations with education in Nova Scotia, and character-defining elements; which include its: location along Highway 1; Second Empire style of architecture with symmetrical facades; two storey wooden structure; distinctive mansard roof with dormers with curved roofs; wooden shingled cladding with a chiseled-patterned banding detail of four courses on all four sides; corner boards and frieze below the roof’s overhang; elaborated dormers with curved roofs and a set of 4-over-4 hung windows with curved tops; sets of 4-over-4 hung windows with hoods; and asymmetrically placed main entrance door.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.