Italianate

Low-pitched roofs, wide eaves on decorative brackets, tall narrow windows with hood moulds, sometimes a belvedere.

Historic places
668Historic places
Built
1780–1991Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 62
  • Provincial 54
  • Municipal 552
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick249
  • Ontario175
  • British Columbia84
  • Nova Scotia60
  • Prince Edward Island42
  • Manitoba23
  • Quebec18
  • Saskatchewan10
  • Alberta3
  • Newfoundland and Labrador3
  • Yukon1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1880s: 153 of the 515 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1780George Gracie HouseShelburne, Nova Scotia
  2. 1784Cooper's Inn and Guest HouseShelburne, Nova Scotia
  3. 1786Taylor EstateHillsborough, New Brunswick

The register gives no construction date for 153 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 204 of these 668 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. John Teague (biography, opens in a new tab)15 places
  2. David Stirling (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  3. H. H. Mott (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  4. Francis Thompson (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. Noble Stonestreet Hoffar (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  6. John Corbett (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 668 places

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