ANSWERS - HALIFAX - BITS 'N BOBBLES....AGAIN
Here ya go....
1: Cleveland Estate (1909) at 851 Young Ave.
One of the remaining gates and post at the Cleveland Estate on Young Ave. From what I can gather the house was built in 1909 by William Anderson Black who was a shipping mogul and then MP of Halifax. It was later owned in 1919 by Charles Grover Cleveland who founded Cleveland Realty Ltd. and his wife Harriet Victoria. Hence the name Cleveland Estate. The house is also known as 'The Wedding Cake' house but not
one article I found online said why so I'm going to make the assumption that it had something to do with it's earlier appearance. Alan North of 'Save Young Avenue' states that the house is more properly known as "Ard Na Mara". This appears to be Irish where Ard means "height or peak" and Mara means "sea". I'm not sure though how that fits the house.....
2: Information Center at Alderney Landing - Dartmouth Waterfront
This is the little information center that's on the Dartmouth Waterfront just off of the Alderney Landing parking lot. At one time it looks as though it had a little red roof on it but as you can see in the image above all that's left these days is the framing. If you want to see it in all it's magnificent glory though here it is:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6639...!7i8704!8i4352
3: The Marine Railway Flume House on Dartmouth Greenway at 58 Prince Albert Rd, Dartmouth
This is the cable drum and rope inside the flume house. The building itself is a reproduction of the original flume house that controlled the Dartmouth Marine Railway from 1861-1871. It enabled boats to travel from Halifax Harbour into Sullivan’s Pond allowing them to then enter the Shubenacadie Canal waterway. This
EXCELLENT youtube video from warwicklambert.com shows the whole process (jump to 1:28):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0LpCxwc3To
4: Point Pleasant Park Fountain
This is the back of the fountain at Point Pleasant Park. It's a lot nicer from the other side.
5: Point Pleasant Park Gates (installed Aug. 21st, 1886)
The gates were made by Starr Manufacturing in Dartmouth as a gift to the park from Sir William Young in 1886. As the story goes the road to the park was taking too long to build so Young lent the city $8,000 dollars ($218,900.43 in 2019) to expedite the process and ornament the road so his gates could be erected. It's rumored that the gates themselves cost nearly $500 dollars in 1886 ($13,681.28 in 2019) but there's no hard evidence of that amount. From what I can gather the last major restoration on the gates was in 2000 by Tony Grady, of "Hammer and Tongs".
Fun Fact: If what saltscapes.com says is correct the park was originally called Tower Woods Park before being renamed.
Double Fun Fact: William Young's nickname was "Little Billy" due to his height.
6: St. Mary's Basillica (1820) at 5221 Spring Garden Rd.
Granite cap of the left gate post at the parking entrance. As for the building at 189 foots the granite spire is apparently the tallest in North America. Don't care about the spire and just want more gate post? Boom:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/15...!4d-63.5728317
7: Brooklyn Warehouse at 2795 Windsor St. (2007)
If you've ever got stuck in traffic waiting for someone to turn into the parking lot at the Forum you've probably looked over in frustration and noticed this sign painted on the side of the Brooklyn Warehouse along Almon St. The restaurant has been there since 2007 but any historic information about the building just doesn't seem to be available. Have a look:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.65440...7i16384!8i8192
8: Alderney Real Estate Appraisals at 165 Portland St.
This grows on me every time I see it. I'll post a pic below of the full building. If you want to see an image before it's cool paint job it's here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/At...!4d-63.5625206
9: Fountain at Granville Mall
I feel like there's a story here but much to my surprise I wasn't able to find any information about the stone fountain that's at the Granville Mall. This is strictly speculation on my part but I wonder if it's a nod to NSCAD's Fountain Campus?
10: Joseph Howe Statue (1904) - Province House - 1726 Hollis St.
Created by Quebec sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert the statue was erected in 1904, 100 years after Howe's birth. It was the first public statue in Nova Scotia of someone who had been born in the province.
Fun Fact: He was very good at a game called "rackets" which was a kind of tennis played against a wall. It was a very fast game which apparently he was the champion in Halifax at. Sounds like modern day squash to me.
Double Fun Fact: Howe created a substantial body of poetry, much of it related to his appreciation of Nova Scotia and its history.
11: Rock Fence along Critchton Ave.
I feel like there's some history behind this rock fence/wall along Critchton Ave. but I wasn't able to find much about it. And by 'find much' I mean absolutely nothing, lol. For a better view of where this little rock 'post' is at have a look here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6726...7i16384!8i8192
12: Mary Queen of Scots Inn at 1266 Queen St. (1861)
Also known as 'Queen of Scot's Head' and the 'Queen Anne House' it was a woman by the name of Miss Susannah Almon who had the stone head of Mary added above the central door. The head was carved by stone cutter George Liang who also lived in the house for a time. Does the name sound familiar? Liang is also responsible for carving the lion on top of the Welsford-Parker Monument (1860) and all the carvings above the windows/doorways of the Court House on Spring Garden Rd (1860).
13: Shubie Canal Greenway Corridor at Star Park
These wheels are on the replica of a cradle car that would have carried the boats/barges on rail from Halifax Harbour to Sullivan's Pond. It's a little blurry on google maps but you can see it here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6700.../data=!3m1!1e3.
As posted above in #3 this
EXCELLENT youtube video from warwicklambert.com shows the whole process (jump to 1:28):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0LpCxwc3To
14: Alderney Landing Community Cultural Centre (1999) at 2 Ochterloney Street
These are the windows on the west side of the building facing the water. If you've been on the ferry you probably recognize them. For a little perspective though click here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6640.../data=!3m1!1e3
15: Dartmouth City Clock at Alderney Gate (1988)
Not a lot of information about the clock available. I did learn though that a horologist is a maker of clocks and watches and that David Francis, aka Doctor Clock, is the horologist who services all of the city’s timepieces. Doc Clock has been in business since 1960.
16: LaFrasca Cibi and Vini at 5650 Spring Garden Rd.
Formerly Bubba Rays Sports Bar this is the clock at the top of the building at current day LaFrasca Cibi and Vini.
Fun Fact: In Northeast Italy, a “frasca” was symbolized by hanging a branch to welcome passersby in for great food & drink.
Here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sp...!4d-63.5797532
17: Clam Shell (2016)
Inspired by the famous 'Birth of Venus' and symbolizing the mysticism of love and the sea, artist Miro Davis carved her sculpture from Nova Scotia and African granite. Check it out:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6480...7i16384!8i8192
18: Cannon Gears - York Redoubt - 9 Inch Rifled Muzzle Loaded Cannon (1897)
These cannons fired 256-pound shells which could penetrate up to 9 inches of wrought iron on a ships hull. It took 9 men to operate. A good fire rate was one shot every 1 minute 45 seconds. There are six cannons still onsite today. They are numbered from 1 to 6. Cannon six is at the far south end and cannon number one is at the north end.
Fun Fact: One of these things is not like the other. Cannon number 2 is actually a 10-inch 18-ton muzzle loading rifle while the other 5 are all 9 inch.
19: Painted Stairs to St. James United Church at 181 Portland St, Dartmouth (1871)
I thought this was interesting. The Church has strong connections to the Canal, as it was the signatures of a group of Canal workers that provided the required number of members to qualify the St. James congregation for the funding to construct the first church in 1827. You can see the stairs before they were painted here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/At...!4d-63.5625206
20: Balusters on the Young Avenue Concrete Bridge
I looked everywhere and much to my surprise could not find an official build date for the bridge. I did however find an this interesting snippet on halifaxurbangreenway.ca about the first train leaving one of the south end stations which would suggest a construction date of 1917-1918:
....The first official passenger train, the Maritime Express, steamed out of the still incomplete new station on December 22, 1918, carrying a distinguished group of governmental and business dignitaries bound for Fairview, thus ceremonially inaugurating the new service. Excited, cheering crowds gathered on the bridges, especially at Young Avenue and Tower Road, to watch the historic train go through. Perhaps the train was led by one of the red "ten wheeler" engines designed by Timothy Blood of the Manchester Locomotive Works, bought by the ICR in 1901 and used 'till about 1927. Passengers undoubtedly looked up with awe at the rock walls towering above them.
21: Grass along the Alderney Dr. median
For a better perspective:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.66442...7i16384!8i8192
22: Vertu Suites at 1530 Birmingham St (completed 2012)
Check out 97 designer suites here:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.64297...7i16384!8i8192
23 & 24: Decorative window guards at 976 Barrington St.
So these may (were) have been a bit of a stretch but if you've been in the parking lot of the Halifax Chinese Christian Church then you've probably said 'hey, those are cool' because they kind of are. You can just barely see them behind the trees here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@44.6352...7i13312!8i6656
ANSWER #8
Source: My image
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SOURCES:
1: Cleveland Estate
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featu...-27-2017/#City
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featu...ay-may-3-2016/
http://www.namenerds.com/irish/house.html
https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/pl...lacenames-a-b/
http://www.housenameheritage.com/hnh_wsc_gaelic.asp
3: Flume House
https://www.shubenacadiecanal.ca/blo...ay-flume-house
5: Point Pleasant Park Gates
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/young_william_11E.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ease-1.4134337
https://www.saltscapes.com/roots-fol...standards.html
http://legacycontent.halifax.ca/medi...parkgates2.php
https://nslegislature.ca/sites/defau...16-177-001.pdf
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inf...86?amount=8000
https://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedin...es-of-halifax/
https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.ph...ew/16969/23032
6: St. Mary's Basillica at 1508 Barrington St.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Ma...ilica_(Halifax)
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep...?id=7218&pid=0
10: Joseph Howe statue:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...otia-1.3448029
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Howe
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kitonlove/3609875020
12: Mary Queen of Scots Inn
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep...u.aspx?id=6751
14: Aldereny Landing Community Cultural Centre
https://www.alderneylanding.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alderney_Landing
15: Dartmouth Clock
http://www.doctorclock.com/exterior-clocks.php
https://www.thecoast.ca/RealityBites...of-hrms-clocks
16: LaFrasca Cibi and Vini Clock
https://lafrasca.ca/
17: Clam Shell
https://downtownhalifax.ca/news/barr...ve-birth-venus
18: Cannon Gears - York Redoubt:
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/...r_6_Halifax_NS
19: Painted Stairs to St. James Church
https://www.exploredartmouth.ca/hist...-united-church
20: Young Ave. Concrete Bridge
http://www.halifaxurbangreenway.ca/i...ut_history.htm
22: Vertu Suites
http://vertusuites.com/
https://dexel.ca/vertu-suites.html