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Kaulbach House

75 Pelham Street, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

Formally Recognized: 1988/04/28

Kaulbach House, Old Town, front façade, 2004; Heritage Division, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage, 2004
Front façade
Kaulbach House, Old Town, front steps, 2004; Heritage Division, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage, 2004
Front steps detail
Kaulbach House, Old Town, rear Kaulbach House, Old Town, rear façade, 2004; Heritage Division, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage, 2004
Rear façade

Other Name(s)

Kaulbach House
Kaulbach House Historic Inn

Links and documents

Construction Date(s)

1879/01/01 to 1890/01/01

Listed on the Canadian Register: 2004/08/11

Statement of Significance

Description of Historic Place

Kaulbach House is a two-storey wooden building with a tall frontispiece and prominent dormers, built up to the streetline. The property is located on Pelham Street in Lunenburg's Old Town, a designated Heritage District. Municipal designation includes the building and surrounding property, which is presently a bed and breakfast.

Heritage Value

Kaulbach House is valued as an example of Lunenburg architecture at the peak of its fashion in the late nineteenth century. It also has significance as the former home of local businessman Dufferin Kaulbach, grandson of Sherriff John Henry Kaulbach. Like many Lunenburg homes, it stayed in the original family well into the twentieth century.

The house has many features that are typical of Lunenburg in its most prosperous era, the 1870s to the 1890s. It is a clapboarded wood frame building with an impressive facade, consisting of a tall central frontispiece with an extended projecting dormer, bell cast roof and an enclosed lower front porch. A sense of the Kaulbach family's prominence in Lunenburg is also seen in the display of the family name on the riser of the top step leading from the street to the central front door.

Source: Heritage Designation File 66400-40-06, Town of Lunenburg.

Character-Defining Elements

Character-defining elements of Kaulbach House include:

- wood frame, with a bell cast mansard roof and clapboard cladding;
- a sense of height, gained from the tall central frontispiece with its extended projecting dormer, bell cast tower roof, tall roundheaded windows and attic dormers;
- symmetrical façade with central door, matching bay, basement and dormer windows;
- an enclosed central porch housing the front door, with a short stairway leading to the door;
- the family name, Kaulbach, inscribed on the riser of the top step of the front entrance;
- bracketing below the bay windows, cornices above the doorway, dormer and windows are all the same style;
- a low, retaining wall defines the property line immediately at the street line, with little space between the building and street.

Recognition

Jurisdiction

Nova Scotia

Recognition Authority

Local Governments (NS)

Recognition Statute

Heritage Property Act

Recognition Type

Municipally Registered Property

Recognition Date

1988/04/28

Historical Information

Significant Date(s)

n/a

Theme - Category and Type

Peopling the Land
Settlement

Function - Category and Type

Current

Commerce / Commercial Services
Hotel, Motel or Inn

Historic

Residence
Single Dwelling

Architect / Designer

n/a

Builder

n/a

Additional Information

Location of Supporting Documentation

Town of Lunenburg, 119 Cumberland Street, P.O. Box 129, Nova Scotia, B0J 2C0, Files 66400-40-06

Cross-Reference to Collection

Fed/Prov/Terr Identifier

37MNS0006

Status

Published

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