Along with St. Paul's Church, the building housing the former offices of the Hon. Charles Morris is one of the four oldest buildings in the city.
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Saving the Morris Building
Posted 
January 20, 2010 
For fifty years the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia has worked
to preserve our irreplaceable built heritage; the buildings and spaces
that speak to us of our past.
The Heritage Trust and other parties have just saved one very special place from the wrecker’s ball, the Charles Morris Office Building. The building on Hollis Street was the office of Charles Morris, Nova Scotia’s first Surveyor-General, who laid out the plans for Halifax and other Maritime communities. A mention of the building in Morris’s will of 1781 means that, along with St. Paul’s Church, The little Dutch Church and Carleton House, it is one of Halifax’s four oldest buildings.
Until just weeks ago, the building was slated for demolition but with the support of the Ecology Action Centre, Nova Scotia Power, HRM, Dexel Developments, Pascal Holdings, and Councillors Bob Harvey, Dawn Sloane and Jennifer Watts, the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia helped to save this vital part of Nova Scotia’s built heritage from the landfill. It has now been temporarily located on a nearby site owned by Nova Scotia Power Inc.
The Morris Building galvanized such unprecedented support because, as a demonstration project, it represents a new way of approaching the built environment. One which, while celebrating heritage values, also speaks to the enormous environmental benefits embodied in adaptive reuse of buildings and how we might address issues of energy efficiencies and sustainability through their preservation.
We are appealing for the financial help of all members of the public to raise more than $30,000 to cover costs associated with moving the building and maintaining it until permanent arrangements can be made for its future.
We Need Your Help
Please consider a generous financial donation to this important campaign to save a significant piece of our built heritage. Your donation is eligible for a tax receipt for income tax purposes.
Cheques can be made payable to the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia and sent to:
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia
PO Box 36111, RPO Spring Garden Road
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 3S9
Need more information? Please contact the President of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Peter Delefes, at (902-826-2087) or by e-mail at: president@htns.ca
>>click here to read about how this house was moved to a new location <<
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