MIRCS Historic GIS Model Zone: St. Patrick s Roman Catholic Church parish area in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Allen B. Robertson, Ph. D. Photo Survey of buildings and bounds of St. Patrick s boundaries for comparison to pre-1960s street and house numbering system. Also images of buildings extant in 1881 or earlier. Survey done May 2015. Windsor St. & Quinpool Rd intersection Windsor St & Parker St diverge 1
Parker St Nos. 2027A & 2027B: 1st bldng down street from parkade [See above photo Windsor/Welsford] Parker St No 2063 Seventh Day Adventist Church main door 2
Parker St No 2063 Seventh Day Adventist Church Welsford St 6070 Windsor St 2103 [Modern Bldng] 3
Windsor St Buddhist Temple (formerly Wesleyan Church) above; stone guardian lion at left. Situated corner with Compton Steet. Photo taken from corner Lawrence Steet. Cunard St 6051 [Mark Knox Law Office Inc.] 4
5 Above: Cunard St 6041 [two houses down from Mark Knox Law Office No. 6051] Left: Corner Cunard at Robie St intersection across from Halifax Commons
Clifton at Garrick streets: Clifton St 2359 Clifton St 2376 [Modern Architecture] 6
7 Above: Corner Robie St & Charles St All Nations Christian Reform Church (formerly a Methodist Church); Left: Hunter St 2363
Windsor St 2455 Saint Antonios Antiochian Christian Orthodox Church near intersection with Cunard Street Windsor St at Willow St: Windsor 2527 8
Windsor St at North St: Windsor 2589 [Offices of Turner Drake & Partners Ltd.] Right: North St at Gladstone St: North 6148; Below: Same building showing second half of duplex No 6144 9
North St at Robie St along the North St side showing [left to right] Nos 5812, 5814 &. North St building three houses down from Mid-East Food Centre (corner of North and Agricola streets). Restored pre-1881 structure. North St at Maynard St: North 5576 10
Above: Creighton St 2577 (East Half of Heritage Building) with (left) photo of heritage plaque: Henry Busch House 1872 11
Upper Water St 2506 [Restored mid-1800s structure] Artz St 5215 up hill from Upper Water Street Brunswick St at corner with Gerrish St: Little Dutch Church (Heritage Site) c. 1750-52 12
Brunswick St 2319: West half is No 2323, East Half is No 2319 (Heritage House: West House) Brunswick St Nos 2323 & 2319: Historic West House built 1867 Brunswick St 2287: Jesuit Spirituality Centre 13
Brunswick St 2263 : St. Patrick s Roman Catholic Church main facade 14
Brunswick St 2222 : St. George s Anglican Church The Round Church 1802; reconstruction post-fire 1994 Above: Brunswick St 2229 : Heritage House: Ott- Beamish House c. 1840; Right: Heritage plaque for Ott-Beamish House 15
Above: Brunswick St 2151: Heritage House: Akins Cottage 1798; Left: Heritage plaque for Akins Cottage 1798 16
Brunswick St 2124: Former Church building (Church of the Redeemer Universalist) now converted into apartments 17
Halifax Map 1879 with St. Patrick s boundary outlined in blue for MIRCS research zone 18
Nineteenth Century Map of Halifax 19
Series of GIS maps of HRM showing the peninsula of Halifax with close-ups of area of St.Patrick s boundaries zone. 20
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St. Patrick s Church from the waterfront showing changes and build up of shore. Images taken from Halifax-Dartmouth Ferry 2015 May. [ABR] 26
Comparative Reference Works: City Atlas of Halifax, Nova Scotia. From Actual Surveys and Records. by H. W. Hopkins, civil engineer; G. B. Vandervoort, Manager. 1878 Clarke, Brian P. Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895 Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia Founded Upon A Rock: Historic Buildings in Halifax and Vicinity Standing in 1967 2nd ed. Halifax, N.S.: Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia and Petheric Press, 1971 Reps, John W. Views and Viewmakers of Urban America Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925 Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1984 Rogers, Joseph S. Rogers Photographic Advertising Album Halifax, N.S.: Joseph S. Rogers, 1871 [Repub. as A Century Ago Halifax 1871 by Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia with Petheric Press, 1970] Smailes, Arthur E. The Geography of Towns Chicago: Aldine Publishing, 1966 [1st pub. 1953] Tung, Anthony M. Preserving the World s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001 27
Locations of Photo Sites [marked in red] for St. Patrick s Parish Bounds and Sites of Interest 2015 using HRM GIS map. 28