Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Prince & Hollis Buildings (Halifax)
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- 1862
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Notice of registration date
- 11 September 1986
- Civic address
- 5136-38 Prince Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.64761, -63.57228
- File number
- Prov_file_54
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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)
- 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
the buildings form a little altered, integral sreetscape, dating from the Confederation period, and have a close historical association with both the Novascotian and Morning Chronicle newspapers, and with Sarah Howard, known as Victorian Halifax's foremost business woman.
Character-defining elements
The character-defining elements of the Geldert (Old Bowes) related to its Classically influenced Victorian design and include:
- red brick dominant construction material;
- square granite columns on the ground level;
- hip roof with a shed dormer on the front facade;
- segmentally arched windows with radiating voussoirs, sandstone keystones, lugsills and a leaf motif on the recessed head of each window;
- moulded string course between the first and second storey;
- brick arches forming the base of the first storey;
- centrally located in Downtown Halifax.
Nearby in the register
- Bank of Nova Scotia (Hollis)commercialunder 1 mi
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotiamuseumunder 1 mi
- Province Housepublicunder 1 mi
- St. Paul's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.