Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
DeWolf House
Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1775
- Decade built
- 1770-1779
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 10 February 1987
- Civic address
- 654 Main Street
- Community
- Wolfville
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.08893, -64.37629
- File number
- Prov_file_58
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
built about 1775, is the oldest house in the Town of Wolfville; its close association with Elisha DeWolfe, judge and member of the Provincial House of Assembly; and its pleasing amalgam of New England colonial and Georgian architectural styles.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of The DeWolfe House relating to its New England Colonial and Georgian style include:
- its location in central Wolfville directly on an early main route through the Annapolis Valley;
- two-and-a-half storey timber frame construction;
- six-over-six wooden windows;
- wooden shingles;
- symmetrical five bay façade;
- matching brick chimneys;
- wooden front entry with side lights;
- returning eaves;
- moderately pitched gable roof.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.