Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Kirk Place
Antigonish, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- commercial
- Year built
- 1883
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1988
- Civic address
- 219 Main Street
- Community
- Antigonish
- County
- Antigonish
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.62244, -61.98943
- File number
- Prov_file_74
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Queens and Kings, Prince Edward Island (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is one of the first large department stores built and among the few surviving examples of the Italianate Commercial style in the Province.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Italianate Commercial style of Kirk Place include:
- three-storey brick construction with iron structural columns and projecting cornice;
- facade divided into three floors vertically and three bays horizontally, creating a refined symmetrical balance;
- flat roof;
- glazed ground floor facade;
- round segmental-arched windows;
- windows surmounted by decorative stone lintels, hoods and keystones;
- coursed sandstone quoins are used at the corners and between the structural bays on the facade;
- the name Kirk Block and the date of erection (1883) are carved into the sandstone quoins at the northwest corner;
- central location and siting immediately at the streetline in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Nearby in the register
- St. Ninian's Cathedralchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.