Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Knaut Rhuland House
Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- residence
- Year built
- 1794
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Builder
- Benjamin Knaut
- Cultural association
- German, Foreign Protestant
- Notice of registration date
- 21 February 1989
- Civic address
- 125 Pelham Street
- Community
- Lunenburg
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.37688, -64.30903
- File number
- Prov_file_91
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
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)
- 1879 · County of Kings, 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 the earliest recorded house in the Province whose interior plan is Georgian, while its exterior is in the New England Colonial style and because it was the residence of John W. Creighton, a prominent 19th century provincial politician.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Knaut-Rhuland House include:
- thick stone foundation;
- post and beam frame built around two massive central chimneys;
- six-over-six windows, in a balanced five-bay façade around a central doorway;
- a medium pitched roof and plank wall ;
- hand-blown cylinder glass in some windows;
- wide cornerboards, bracketed under returned eaves;
- side and transom windows around the central front door;
- simple trim ornamentation;
- early nineteenth century latches and hinges, mouldings and ceiling cornices, & fireplace surrounds.
Nearby in the register
- Oldest Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- St. John's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Solomon Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Lennox Tavernresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.