The Heritage Trust is pleased to announce that it is resuming our popular lecture series. The 2025 theme is:  The State of Heritage Buildings: Lost, At Risk, and Saved.

Admission to all of our lectures is free for members and a suggested donation of $5.00 for non-members. Click here to become a member or renew your membership and support built heritage in Nova Scotia.

Entrance to the auditorium is through the side doors on the south side of the Museum of Natural History in Halifax.

 

The Architectural and Spatial Web of a Mid-century Ranch Bungalow:

Modernity and Jewish Houses on Sydney’s Howe Street

A Lecture by Gerald Pocius

Drawing on family and public archives, oral narratives, buildings and landscapes, this talk will consider the wider built environment of Sydney, Nova Scotia, the architecture of Rueben Fisher, and the material and spatial life of the Spinner family in their Mid-Century Modern home. It will also detail my efforts to conserve the Spinner house in an era driven by the urge to gut, replace, and modernize original elements of twentieth-century homes, and reflect on the growing fascination with MCM aesthetics. What is the importance of Modern domestic architecture for Nova Scotia's built heritage?