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.

A Methodology for the Adaptive Re-use of Timber Churches: Crafted Connections for the Rose of Sharon in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Presented by Natasha Juckes

As churches and places of faith continue to close, Nova Scotia risks giving up an architectural identity. Losing these buildings is more than a loss of built heritage, representing a forfeiture of economic, environmental, and social potentials. This presentation, based on a recent architectural thesis, explores how to create a methodology for the adaptive re-use of timber churches through a hypothetical design for a historically Black church in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.