Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Rectory, (The)
Herring Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1881
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- William Critchlow Harris
- Notice of registration date
- 17 October 1988
- Civic address
- 136 Village Road
- Community
- Herring Cove
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.56638, -63.55849
- File number
- Prov_file_84
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 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)
- 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)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the first residence designed by W. C. Harris, one of the most important architects to have practiced in the Maritimes, and because it is an excellent example of the "stick" architectural style.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of The Rectory relate to its Stick style and are its:
-two-and-one-half storey structure;
-three-bayed front façade;
-wooden clapboard cladding;
-steeply pitched gable roof with cross gables;
-gabled porch entry with support braces and small gabled dormer on front façade;
-decorative trusses at apex of gables;
-overhanging eaves;
-hung windows with transom lights;
-two symmetrical chimneys;
-rear ell.