Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Elsie Hume House (formerly Allen House)
Black Point, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1852
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Notice of registration date
- 15 June 1988
- Civic address
- 8502 St. Margaret's Bay Road
- Community
- Black Point
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.65296, -63.98341
- File number
- Prov_file_75
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
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 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is one of the earliest modified Gothic style houses built in the St. Margaret's Bay area and is an excellent and highly attractive example of this style.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Elsie Hume House relating to its modified Gothic style include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood frame structure;
- wood siding;
- sharply pitched gable roof;
- gable dormer on the west elevation and a box dormer on the rear of the ell;
- restrained gingerbread trim;
- non-return eaves;
- peak diamond-paned windows;
- six-over-six windows with window hoods.