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West-Hawkins House

2421 Brunswick Street, Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse, B3K, Canada

Reconnu formellement en: 1992/01/30

West Hawkins House, front façade, 2004; Heritage Division, NS Dept. of Tourism, Culture and Heritage, 2004
Front elevation
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Autre nom(s)

West-Hawkins House
Adsum House

Liens et documents

Date(s) de construction

1857/01/01

Inscrit au répertoire canadien: 2005/03/02

Énoncé d'importance

Description du lieu patrimonial

The historic place is a two-storey, wood frame dwelling, designed in Second Empire style built in 1885. The house is located on the northern end of a residential area of Brunswick Street in Halifax, NS. The heritage designation applies to the building and the land it occupies.

Valeur patrimoniale

The West-Hawkins House is valued for its historical associations, architectural style and social value. The historic place was built for August West, one of the five West brothers who rose to great prominence as ship owners, importers, and merchants. The West-Hawkins House is an example of houses built for such merchant families in the Brunswick Street area of Halifax during the 1860's and 1870's. The house was later sold to George Smith, president of G.M. Smith and Company Ltd., a retailer of hardware and carriage parts. Presently the building is known as Adsum House, a support service for homless women and children. The house's architectural value lies in its Second Empire style elements such as the wood frame structure, stone foundation and mansard roof with dormers. Other features such as the decorated doorway, symmetrically arranged windows and specifically the two storey, five-sided bay windows which were common to this period as well and represent a good example of the Second Empire style in Halifax.

In relation to surrounding buildings, the scale, proportion and design of the West-Hawkins House is similar to many of the houses on the north end of Brunswick Street. Many of the houses in this area of Brunswick Street together represent an era of prosperity envisaged by the mercantile class in Halifax at that time.

Source: HRM Planning and Development Services, Heritage File no. 575

Éléments caractéristiques

The key character defining elements of West-Hawkins House include:

- wood frame structure with wooden shingles and a stone foundation;
- a symmetrical two-storey, five-sided bay window topped with a dormered cupola on the right side of the entryway and a two storey rectangular shaped square projecting bay on the opposite side;
- window decorations of bracketted corniced hoods with embedded medallions in the center;
- featrues that reflect the building's construction as a luxury-type home, including: double door with transom above and an open portico with decorative columns and historic handrail.

Reconnaissance

Juridiction

Nouvelle-Écosse

Autorité de reconnaissance

Administrations locales (N.-É.)

Loi habilitante

Heritage Property Act

Type de reconnaissance

Bien inscrit au répertoire municipal

Date de reconnaissance

1992/01/30

Données sur l'histoire

Date(s) importantes

s/o

Thème - catégorie et type

Un territoire à peupler
Les établissements

Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction

Actuelle

Historique

Résidence
Logement unifamilial

Architecte / Concepteur

s/o

Constructeur

s/o

Informations supplémentaires

Emplacement de la documentation

HRM Planning and Development Services, 6960 Mumford Road, Halifax, NS, B3L 4P1, File 2421 Brunswick Street.

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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.

23MNS0575

Statut

Édité

Inscriptions associées

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