Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Government House
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1807
- Decade built
- 1800-1809
- Builder
- Isaac Hildreth
- Cultural association
- British Colonial
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1983
- Civic address
- 1451 Barrington Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.64346, -63.57146
- File number
- Prov_file_7
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
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 age of this building, its handsome and well maintained Georgian design and its historical and continued association with the various Lieutenant-Governor's who have served in Nova Scotia since 1805.
Character-defining elements
Exterior Character Defining Elements of Government House include:
- symmetrical massing of three storey central section with two storey north and south wings;
- pure Georgian style in stone, with distinctive neo-Classical (Palladian) elements;
- semi-circular bay facades on west side of north and south wings linked to central block
with curved vertical columns;
- rusticated stone and arched window heads on ground floor;
- neo-Classical portico with curved stair at east (original main) entrance;
- small wooden neo-Classical porch with fan light at main entrance;
- two storey pilasters on east side of central block;
- shallow moat at bottom of west facade;
- truncated hipped roofs;
- formal gardens with stone and cast iron fences;
- timber frame carriage house clad in brick and stucco, with hipped roof.
Nearby in the register
- Benjamin Wier Housecommercialunder 1 mi
- Old Burying Groundcemeteryunder 1 mi
- Sir Rupert George Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. Mary's Basilicachurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.