Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Manson House
North Lochaber, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1865
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Builder
- Alexander Manson
- Notice of registration date
- 21 July 1988
- Civic address
- Highway 7
- Community
- North Lochaber
- County
- Antigonish
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.44704, -62.01448
- File number
- Prov_file_81
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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Reason for registration
it was the focus for nearly 100 years of the rural manufacturing and agricultural centre established by the carriage maker Alexander Mason in 1865, and including its use as a post office and a stage coach stop, when it was known as 14 Mile House.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the original Cape Code structure of the Manson House including:
- one-and-one half storey, three bay façade with clapboard cladding;
- high gable roof with projecting eaves;
- six-over-six flat windows with plain lintels, sides and sills;
- main entrance consists of a flat outside opening with shaped pediment and projecting eaves, transom with three lights, with pilasters and sidelights on the enclosed porch;
- flat inner opening of main entrance with shaped transom and multiple lights.
Character-defining elements of the side wing addition of the Manson House include:
- two-storey, three bay façade with central entrance and clapboard cladding;
- six over six-pane windows;
- plain frieze with supporting brackets;
- salt-box shaped roof with extending gable roof at the rear adjoining the second addition and a large overhang at the front.
Character-defining elements of the rear addition of the Manson House include:
- one-and-one half storey addition with clapboard cladding;
- central entrance between two six over six paned windows;
- symmetrical façade of second entrance with a central entrance between two one over one-pane windows.