Hart Hall

Hart Hall,
63D York Street, Sackville, N.B. 
HART HALL
1910
Built in 1910 on the site of the former Lingley Hall, Hart Hall was part of the Mount Allison Ladies’ College and the School for Girls. The four-storey stone building, designed by Edmund Burke, housed dormitory rooms, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, classrooms and an apartment for the College Principal.Extensively renovated in 1983-84 it today houses a variety of academic apartments making it the oldest academic building on campus still in use.

Hart Hall is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of Ethel Peake (1875-1954) a voice teacher at Mount Allison and a well-known “character.”
HART HALL
BUILT IN 1910, HART HALL WAS
FOR MANY YEARS PART OF THE
MOUNT ALLISON LADIES’ COLLEGE
(1854-1936) AND THE SCHOOL
FOR GIRLS (1936-1946).MAY 14, 1984.

 

Plaque placed by Mount Allison University
in 1984. 

 
Leroux, John and Thaddeus Holownia, A Vision in Wood and Stone: The Architecture of Mount Allison University (Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2016), pp.74-78.

Jackson, Kip and Charlie Scobie, Sackville Then And Now: New Brunswick’s Oldest Town in Photographs (Sackville, N.B.: Tantramar Heritage Trust, 2013), p.85.

On the “ghost” of Hart Hall, see Bill Hamilton, “A Halloween Tale – The Ghost of Hart Hall,” Tantramar Flashback #50.

On Ethel Peake see “Ethel Peake”, Canadian Encyclopedia.

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