Cavalier Building
In French: Édifice Cavalier de la citadelle
Also known as The Citadel, Cavalier Building
A historic house is usually a private one; the street is the place to see it from.
About Cavalier Building
Cavalier Building is one of 6 Classified Federal Heritage Buildings in Schmidtville. The register gives 1830–1833 for Cavalier Building. Its design is credited to Lieutenant Colonel Gustavas Nicolls, Lieutenant Colonel Rice Jones and Lieutenant Colonel Patrick D. Calder. 16 other places on the registers stand within 400 m.
Located in the Halifax Defense Complex of the Halifax Citadel National Historic Side of Canada, the Cavalier Building is a three-storey, rectangular stone structure with a hipped roof and pronounced chimneys. Its long façade is dominated by a two storey colonnaded verandah terminated by wood-sided stair enclosures. Each side elevation has a triangular fenestration grouping on the lower portion, a line of windows and a single dormer above, and horizontally set windows on the verandah stair enclosures. The stark rear elevation displays a rhythm of windows and chimneys with only one opening on its short flanking sections. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Cavalier Building · Open Government Licence – Canada · as published, word for word
Classified federal heritage buildings are the federal government’s most significant buildings.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 10 minutes
Schmidtville · about 600 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Cavalier BuildingStart here
- 2Town Clock on Citadel HillClassified Federal Heritage Building · 200 m on
- 3Halifax Academy BuildingProvincially Registered Property · 200 m on
- 4Commanding Officer's ResidenceRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
- 52/Officers' Married QuartersRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 100 m on
12 within 300 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Questions about Cavalier Building
Can you visit Cavalier Building?
As a home it is probably lived in, so it is best seen from outside.
When was Cavalier Building built?
Work on Cavalier Building is recorded as 1830–1833.
What is Cavalier Building?
Cavalier Building has been a Classified Federal Heritage Building since 1996.
Is Cavalier Building protected?
As a Classified federal building, any work on it needs the federal heritage review’s advice while Canada owns it.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
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.
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