Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Alexander Kedy House
Mahone Bay, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- c.1799
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Cultural association
- British Colonial
- Notice of registration date
- 10 February 1987
- Civic address
- 249 Edgewater
- Community
- Mahone Bay
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.45577, -64.37889
- File number
- Prov_file_57
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
3 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 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
built by and was the residence of the prominent South Shore Kedy family for 146 years; its architecture is a very early example of a house built with a Georgian floor plan within a two-storey New England colonial timber frame; and its heritage significance has been respected in adapting it for commercial purposes.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Alexander Kedy House include:
- two-and-a-half storey timber frame construction;
- medium pitched gable roof;
- built into the side of a hill;
- symmetrical five bay front façade;
- long, rectangular plan;
- three front doorways;
- wings on each side of the front façade;
- prominent location facing the head of Mahone Bay.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.