Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Richard Brown House
Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1829
- Decade built
- 1820-1829
- Notice of registration date
- 3 December 1985
- Civic address
- 32 Brown Street
- Community
- Sydney Mines
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.23540, -60.22349
- File number
- Prov_file_42
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sydney, Canada. Coal Resources of the World. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the property's long association with two individuals closely connected with the history of coal mining in Cape Breton, notably: Richard Brown, the first mine manager for the General Mining Association (1829-1864) and his son Richard Henry Brown, who acted as Manager from 1864 to 1901.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Richard Brown House include:
- two and a half storey, five bay façade, British Folk style form and massing;
- gable roof;
- inset windows and doors;
- three sided two storey bay windows on the western wall;
- boxed bay window with foundation on the east wall;
- façade overhang boxed by a plain cornice board and rear cornice board decorated with dentils;
- main house clad in narrow clapboard over brick, except for a small section of the rear wall which is cement over brick and a section of the west wall where the brick is exposed;
- east wall of the ell on the first floor is cement over brick, and the second floor and the rest of the section is finished in clapboard;
- brick exterior walls and interior partitions.
Nearby in the register
- Old Sydney Mines Post Officepublicunder 1 mi
- CN Train Stationmuseumunder 1 mi
- Chapel Point Battery Sitesiteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.