Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Morton House
Milton, Queens, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- B&B
- Year built
- 1864
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Notice of registration date
- 16 June 1989
- Civic address
- 147 Highway 8
- Community
- Milton
- County
- Queens
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.05433, -64.74214
- File number
- Prov_file_96
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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
it is an exceedingly good example of the Empire Style with its outstanding decorative features and because of its close association up to 1971 with John and Georgiana Morton and their descendants.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Morton House include:
- wood frame and clad in pine clapboard;
- truncated gable roof;
- location close to the shoreline and the wharf lot;
- six-over-six windows on first storey with shutters.
Character-defining elements of the Empire style of the Morton House include:
- three storeys, symmetrical, three bay façade;
- centered doorway with transom and sidelights;
- brackets beneath the eaves;
- outer trim of ornate corbel corners, and stylized eaves cornices.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.