Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Perkins House
Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1767
- Decade built
- 1760-1769
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 11 July 1983
- Civic address
- 105 Main Street
- Community
- Liverpool
- County
- Queens
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.04003, -64.71178
- File number
- Prov_file_9
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (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 property's direct association with its original owner Simeon Perkins, considered to be an historical personage of provincial significance, and the age of the building, which pre-dates 1812.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements associated with the house of the prominent diarist Colonel Simeon Perkins include:
-the form and massing of the house
-its rear ell
-its gable roof with two dormers and two chimneys
-the unique planked wall construction of the house
-the ochre-tinted wood shingle roof and interior finishes as recorded in Perkins' diary
-the traces of a separate and private exterior entrance to the study
-the plan of the house reinforcing the historic public and private dual function of the house
Nearby in the register
- Elisha Calkin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Liverpool Courthousepublicunder 1 mi
- Liverpool Town Hall/Astor Theatrepublicunder 1 mi
- Fort Point Lighthouselighthouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.