Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Guysborough Court House
Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1843
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Builder
- Elisha Randall
- Notice of registration date
- 2 March 1989
- Civic address
- 106 Church Street
- Community
- Guysborough
- County
- Guysborough
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.39066, -61.50064
- File number
- Prov_file_94
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
The 1901 map covering this location: "Eastern Half of Nova Scotia." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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
its important contribution for over 130 years as the principal public building in Guysborough County, and because of its Gothic arched window, a feature that distinguishes this court house from its contemporaries in the Maritime Provinces.
Character-defining elements
Exterior Character-Defining Elements of the Old Guysborough Court House Museum
related to its simple symmetrical meeting house style and location within the community include:
- wood shingle cladding
- windows with true Gothic Revival point arch with a simple tracery pattern;
- projected, enclosed porch on the street side with gable roof;
- south side wing;
- wood shingle roof;
- sandstone foundation;
- location on a main road, in the centre of the community.
Nearby in the register
- Henry Marshall Jost Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Harbour Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Walsh Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.