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Built Heritage Resource Guide


43 York Street, Lunenburg, NS

Neoclassical Architecture in Canada, 1820-1860 includes Classical, Roman and Greek Revival. These buildings include the following characteristics:

- wood, brick or stone construction
- 1 ½ to 2 storeys
- medium or steeply pitched gable roofs or hipped roofs, return eaves
- dormers absent
- chimney at peak, discreetly placed
- centered doorway, rectangular transoms and sidelights, symmetrical facade
- Roman, Greek details, eaves, mouldings, door surrounds, and porticoes

This large residence also has Second Empire influences and probably the most elaborate "Lunenburg Bump" in town.

Date: 1975

Photographer: Robert Campbell

Reference: Robert Campbell Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1981-476 no. 1-19 / negative N-1-19

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