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North Hills Museum

Published Online February 7, 2006

Last Edited December 16, 2013

North Hills Museum is located in Granville Ferry, NS, on the shores of the historic Annapolis Basin. The museum is housed in a 200-year-old "salt box" house originally known as Rumsey Farm.

North Hills Museum

North Hills Museum is located in Granville Ferry, NS, on the shores of the historic Annapolis Basin. The museum is housed in a 200-year-old "salt box" house originally known as Rumsey Farm. The farmhouse was purchased in 1964 by Robert Patterson, a wealthy collector of 18th- and 19th-century furniture, porcelain, glass and paintings. Patterson willed his house and collection of antiques to the Nova Scotia government to be maintained as a historic house museum in 1974. The museum is open to the public from early June to mid-October.