Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Campbell Heritage House
Strathlorne, Inverness, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- c.1860
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Cultural association
- Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 21 February 1989
- Civic address
- 340 Church Road
- Community
- Strathlorne
- County
- Inverness
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.17749, -61.28671
- File number
- Prov_file_88
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 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)
- 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
the building's associations with Alexander Campbell, one of the important political and business figures in Inverness for 30 years and the most prominent Campbell in Nova Scotia in his day, and its striking Gothic Revival appearance in beautifully scenic and largely unchanged rural surroundings.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Campbell Heritage House related to its modified Gothic Revival style and include:
- two-and-a-half storey wood construction;
- peaked third floor dormer;
- three chimneys;
- gable roof rear ell;
- gable roof dormer in rear ell.
Other character-defining elements of the Campbell Heritage House include:
- front portico;
- front entry framed by sidelights.
- small hipped roof addition to rear ell;
- wooden clapboard cladding.
Character-defining elements that relate to the landscape of the Campbell Heritage House include:
- two large maple trees framing house;
- prominent location at crossroads.