Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Randall House
Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- c.1780
- Decade built
- 1780-1789
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 26 February 1987
- Civic address
- 171 Main Street
- Community
- Wolfville
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.09187, -64.34893
- File number
- Prov_file_59
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 LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 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)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (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 1808, is one of the two oldest houses in the Town of Wolfville; its exterior has been well maintained to reflect its original New England colonial architectural style; and its Georgian interior has been meticulously restored to house the museum of the Wolfville Historical Society.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Randall House include:
- two-and-a-half storey, wood construction;
- steep-pitched gable roof;
- central doorway with symmetrical five bay façade;
- clapboard siding with wide corner boards;
- returning eaves with cornice;
- matching concrete chimneys;
- flat transom window with sidelights above front door;
- pedimented gable porch on Doric columns with latticed sides;
- its central location in the Town of Wolfville.
Nearby in the register
- Acadia Cinema Buildingcinemaunder 1 mi
- Burying Ground (The) (Wolfville)cemeteryunder 1 mi
- DeWolf Houseresidence1 mi
- Starr's Point Cemeterycemetery1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.