Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Bollard House
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1840
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Builder
- William Flinn
- Cultural association
- British colonial
- Notice of registration date
- 12 June 1985
- Civic address
- 1597 Dresden Row
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.64480, -63.57870
- File number
- Prov_file_40
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
- 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)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is a landmark in that of Halifax because of its relation to Citadel Hill; and has retained its original architectural merit since its construction in c.1840 and the addition in c.1865.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Bollard House include:
- two-storey wood frame structure with wood shingle cladding;
- five-sided plan with a hipped roof at the north, which continues as a simple gable;
- narrow double doors, each with two panels;
- narrow entrance foyer, with the transom and sidelights repeated in the entrance to the interior of the house.
Character-defining elements of the Colonial Style of the Bollard House include:
- Dresden Row entrance surmounted by plain, un-bracketed entablature supported by Doric pilasters with capitals;
- transom window and sidelights at both entrances on the original part of the house and transom above the entrance on the addition;
- two chimneys, placed at either end of the original house;
- nine-over-nine windows on the original section of the house.
Nearby in the register
- Old Halifax Academypublicunder 1 mi
- Grafton Street Methodist Churchchurch, graveyardunder 1 mi
- Old Halifax Court Housepublicunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's Basilicachurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.