The Elizabeth Bishop House, also known as the Bulmer House, is an historic single-family house in

Great Village, Nova Scotia Great Village is a rural community of approximately 500 people located along Trunk 2 and the north shore of Cobequid Bay in Colchester County, Nova Scotia. It is considered locally to incorporate the areas of Highland Village to the west and S ...

. The house is associated with

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winning author

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American people, American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the N ...

who in her youth lived in the house each summer with her maternal grandparents, William Brown Bulmer and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Bulmer. Bishop based many of her stories (such as "In the Village") and poems (such as "Filling Station") on aspects of Great Village and Nova Scotia. Although the Bulmers bought the property in 1874, it is not known when it was built. On May 21, 1997, the Bulmer House was recognized as a Nova Scotia Provincially Recognized Heritage Site for its connection to Elizabeth Bishop and her writings as well as for its architectural significance; it is a good example of a typical -storey

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dwelling dating from between 1800 and 1850, a type common to rural Nova Scotia
In 2004, the house was purchased by a group of artists, who used the building as an artist’s retreat until it was sold again in December 2015The house is now used as a single family home
however at the time of sale
the new owner was “meeting with members of the Elizabeth Bishop Society to discuss ways to keep the house accessible to the public.”

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An illustrated account of a recent stay at the Elizabeth Bishop House
Houses in Nova Scotia Historic buildings and structures in Nova Scotia Buildings and structures in Colchester County {{NovaScotia-struct-stub

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