Knaut-Rhuland House

The Knaut-Rhuland House is an eighteenth-century house at 125 Pelham Street in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada, built in 1793 for Benjamin Knaut, an early sheriff, trader and privateer of the town. It takes its name from Knaut and its second owner Conrad Rhuland, a trader and ship owner who served as a privateer's prize master in the War of 1812. The design is British Classicism, with a doorway framed by sidelights and a transom, six-over-six windows, a thick stone foundation around two chimneys, and a post and beam frame of hand-hewn timbers that appear to have been prepared off-site. It has seven fireplaces and plastered walls on split lath. The house is a National Historic Site of Canada, lies inside the Old Town Lunenburg World Heritage Site, and is run as a museum by the Lunenburg Heritage Society.