Nova Scotia Archives
Built Heritage Resource Guide
"Top of Burton's Hill", Five Corners, Dartmouth, NS
The house on the right at the Five Corners is Second Empire style. Second Empire buildings, 1860-1890, include the following characteristics:
- wood, brick construction
- Two or three storeys. "L" shaped or rectangular
- all have mansard roofs, pierced with dormers, steeply pitched, covered in slate or shingles
- usually with centered doorway with tower, rectangular transoms and side lights, and bay windows one or two storeys high
Date: 1897
Reference: W.L. Bishop Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1983-240 no. 20 / negative N-4019, N-1964