Halifax Municipal Archives

The car is a 1964 Chevrolet.

Corner of Cornwallis and Bauer looking up towards the Commons?

Thanks for another date verification Bill Jarvis!

That does look like the right distance down from the Commons, Cara MacDonald - but since the building on the corner is not the same as the row-houses there now, we can't be sure. Any other clues?

Looks like Vernon at Pepperell, looking north toward Canadian Tire at the corner, and Saint Joseph's Orphanage on the other side of Quinpool. Refs: Aerial overview of the city - Quinpool Road (Retrieval Code #102-105-1-49-1088-54) and Vernon St. [corner of Pepperell St.] (Retrieval Code 102-39-1-1272)

Goodness; about to topple over?

No, it's just taken at a bad angle.

You are probably right, Steve Skafte - but many of these Works Department images were taken by building inspectors documenting unsightly premises... This building most probably no longer exists because they started enforcing Ordinance 50 requiring upkeep of buildings.

"A Redevelopment Study of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1957" (Retrieval Code 711.45 .S8 v.1) refers to it as "TENEMENT BUILDING IN MARKET STREET" on page 14 (PDF page 25).

Good catch, Ryan Tucker! It looks like we did note the study and that it was possibly on Market Street in the database description and forgot to note that here - we will go back in and make it clearer that we do think it is Market Street. Thank you for the identification!

My immediate thought on seeing this was Franklyn Street. I worked for the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building (a program of Parks Canada) in 1974, and we drew up rough floor plans and did extensive interior photographs of an impressive brick Victorian house on Franklin, very reminiscent of this one.
I wonder if CIHB records are easily available or digitized. Many pre-1880 Halifax building exteriors would have been catalogued in the early 70’s under the Phase 1 program. ‘Phase 2’ involved plans and interior photos of a limited number of Phase 1 properties.

robadr Thank you for your comment, and your attribution of this house possibly being on Francklyn Street! It looks like the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building is not very easily accessible to us, but that's a great resource to keep in mind. I haven't been able to completely confirm that this house is on Francklyn Street, but I've updated the descriptions here and in the database to reflect the possibility.

I'm pretty certain that this is fernwood lane in the south end of halifax. 6033 on the right and 6039 on the left.

I've walked by these recently, they look just the same. According to google maps the addresses are 6033 and 6039 Fernwood Lane, just off of Franklyn.

Hello Colby Rice - thanks a lot for the identification on this one! We've updated the description in our database with the location.