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Circa 1765 Christian Ernst built one of three exquisite capes on a hill overlooking the little seaport of Mahone Bay. Everything is still in place in this post & beam treasure: mouldings, beams, floorboards, chair rails, wainscoting (28 inch boards), gun stock corners, cross & bible doors, lots of original hardware, early Welsh dresser in the keeping room & superb corner cabinet in the parlour. The fireplace (original crane) still has a bake oven. The restoration & additions have been true to the period & today it is a liveable home worthy of any heritage mention. A shake roof, six over six windows, 2nd new fireplace, flag walkways & deck looking down on the three famous town spires. A small barn, a little pond, 5 acres of field & lawn with magnificent trees.

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This, being one of Nova Scotia’s genuine treasures of antiquity, offers something very rare...the opportunity to live in the Past-Present Tense. I refer to a very unique spiritual place in time and mind, only suitable for those who can be inspired by a hand-hewn venue of materials and aesthetics, respecting the survivorship of such things, perhaps as an antidote to an abiding suspicion that the contemporary world is less well endowed with those qualities of survivorship.