Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Moirs Ltd. Power House
Bedford, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- public
- Year built
- 1931
- Decade built
- 1930-1939
- Notice of registration date
- 16 June 1989
- Civic address
- 920 Bedford Highway
- Community
- Bedford
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.71394, -63.67809
- File number
- Prov_file_98
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the last surviving structure associated with the former substantial Moir's manufacturing enterprise at Millview in the Town of Bedford, and because it has been imaginatively rehabilitated to serve as a tourist bureau and interpretative centre.
Character-defining elements
Character Defining Elements of the MoirS Ltd. Power House include:
- words "Moirs Limited" engraved on three façades;
- reinforced concrete building materials;
- unadorned façades;
- all original or replica windows and doors;
- flat roof;
- box-like shape;
- close proximity to Moirs Mill Brook;
- elements on property related to original function as a power generating station, including several concrete supports, and related to the present use as a vistor centre including benches and a small walking path.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.