Hydrostone District
In French: Hydrostone
Kaye, Isleville, Duffus Streets and Novalea Drive, North End
About Hydrostone District
Canada counts Hydrostone District among North End’s 7 National Historic Sites. The register gives 1917 for Hydrostone District. Ross and Macdonald designed it.
This English-style garden suburb, one block deep and ten blocks wide, is located in the north end of Halifax. On its short orthogonal streets are homogeneous terrace-type houses arranged to face wide, park-like courts. At the Young Street boundary is a small commercial row, designed in the same subdued Tudor Revival style as the residential area. The designation refers to the buildings and the associated landscape.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Hydrostone District National Historic Site of Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada · as published, word for word
A National Historic Site is designated by the federal minister on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board’s advice.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
North End · about 800 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Hydrostone DistrictStart here
- 2Wellington HouseClassified Federal Heritage Building · 400 m on
- 3Carall Building S-17Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
- 4Currie Building, S37Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
- 5Admiralty HouseNational Historic Site · 100 m on
Questions about Hydrostone District
Is Hydrostone District protected?
National Historic Site status commemorates; legal protection, where there is any, comes from the province or municipality, or from federal ownership.
When was Hydrostone District built?
Work on Hydrostone District is recorded as 1917.
Can you visit Hydrostone District?
From outside, yes; going in depends on who owns or runs it.
What is Hydrostone District?
Hydrostone District became a National Historic Site in 1994.
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Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).