Kingston Hall, Queen’s University This handsome building, completed in 1903, was designed in the Victorian Romanesque style by Symons and Rae, and was originally called the ‘New Arts Building.’ The funding to construct this building was entirely made possible by the City of Kingston, hence the name ‘Kingston Hall.’ It has served various roles including…
John Deutsch University Centre Gymnasium (Jackson Hall) is a 3 storey rusticated limestone building with a flat roof. The main facade is divided into three sections by pilasters which rise from the edges of the wide stone stairway to the string course above the second storey. The main entranceway has double doors with a fanlight…
Ban Righ Hall Ban Righ Hall is a 2 to 4 storey limestone clad steel building with a side gable slate roof. It was built in 1923 to designs of Shepard & Calvin, architects. The original building has had several additions and the overall composition is comprised of several different building masses, each with Collegiate…
102 Gore Street Formerly 42 Wellington Street, the building located near the south-west intersection of Wellington and Gore Streets, has had its address changed under city by-laws to 102 Gore Street. Believed to have been standing in 1829, the present structure’s simple, one-storey clapboard construction and un-coursed stone foundation are consistent with such an early…
73 Baiden Street, Portsmouth Village 73 Baiden Street is a two-storey limestone residence built in 1869. It is located at the northeast corner of Baiden Street and McDonald Avenue in the Portsmouth Village Heritage Character Area. This dwelling is located close to the side and front property lines and presents an impressive front and side…
Willowmere, Barriefield Willowmere, 239 Main Street, is located on the west side of Main Street in the Village of Barriefield. It was designed by architect John Hendry and built in 1818-1819 as a one-and-a-half storey house. Raised to two full storeys later in the 19th century, this handsome limestone house, with a full-width, one-storey verandah,…
The Wellington Street School The building at 47 Wellington was originally the Wellington Street School. Designed by John Power in 1873 at a cost of $7,200, it was then the most modern school in the city. After the school’s closure in 1927, uses varied until 1974 when Queen’s University sold the property to Marion and…
Fairfield-Gutzeit House The Fairfield-Gutzeit House is situated along the Loyalist Parkway waterfront, on a beautiful property that overlooks Lake Ontario, in the village of Bath. The House dates back to 1796 when it was built by two brothers, William Jr. and Benjamin Fairfield whose father had come to Upper Canada as part of the Loyalist…
12 Wellington Street The magnificent red brick house at 12 Wellington Street is located in the Old Sydenham Heritage District close to City Park. The house was built by John Power in 1874–75, and the romantic two-storey front porch was added in 1910 by William Newlands. The 2½ storey, three-bay dwelling is a picturesque example…
252 Princess Street The three-storey portion of 252 Princess Street was built in 1908 as the Orpheum Theatre (with 700 seats). This tall, three-storey, four bay, concrete and steel building, built as a theatre, has taller first storey. The upper two storeys have five fluted pilasters rising from plain bases to Ionic capitals which support…
Rochleau Building The property at 72 Princess Street, known as the Rochleau Building, is one of the oldest in downtown Kingston – built in 1808. It is designated by the city, and the Ontario Heritage Trust holds a 1981 heritage easement agreement with the property owners, Dorothy and George (Ted) Lloyd. FHF Founder Margaret Angus…
90 Johnson Street This limestone building at the southwest corner of Johnson and Wellington Streets was constructed in 1851 as a home for James A. Henderson, a barrister and later a judge. The property, designed by William Coverdale, contains what was a large stone residence in the Neoclassical architectural style. It was designated because of…
62 College Street This large stone double house was built in 1841 to plans by Andrew Drummond and occupied by Drummond and John Mowat. This handsome double limestone house was designated under the OHA by-law 87-151. Drummond came to Kingston from Edinburgh soon after the death of his uncle Robert Drummond, one the contractors of…
Chalmers United Church In 1889 Architects Gilen and Gilen, successors to Robert Gage, designed this church with its distinctive round tower for a congregation which had occupied a smaller building at Sydenham and Earl Streets. Chalmers United Church stands on a triangular piece of property at Clergy, Barrie, and Earl Streets. The church is a…
Church of Good Thief Rectory This is the rectory of the city’s second oldest Catholic church in which services began in 1894. The church and the rectory have been designated under the Ontario Heritage Act since 1978. The former Parish Hall, a former stable have been demolished. In 2019 a conversion from a single residence…
Victoria and Grey Trust Company building The building at 168 Wellington Street, at the northwest corner of Wellington and Brock Streets, was initially designated in 1975 under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act and involves a three and a half storey limestone building, known locally as the Victoria and Grey Trust Company building. The…
1113 Prince Street 1113 Prince Street, Lansdowne is a prominent building located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Prince Street and King Street in Lansdowne. The property is on the municipal register at the owner’s request. The building has served as an anchor for the community, filling several commercial functions since it was…
2802 Pine Grove Road The one and a half storey house is located on Concession 8, lot 23, and dates approximately to 1850. Based on original surveys of the area, the land was owned by a man named John McKendry, who arrived in Canada in 1841. The structure has been repointed, and on one side,…
21 McDonald Ave. and 62 Baiden St. 21 McDonald Ave. and 62 Baiden St. are the addresses for the new six-plex buildings. The Foundation awards the new development an Honourable Mention for its many positive benefits for the neighbourhood. In the past, the Foundation has in this way, recognized new construction in heritage districts or…
Manidoo Ogitigan (Spirit Garden) The City of Kingston has a new and quite remarkable public art installation at Lake Ontario Park. Manidoo Ogitigan, is also known as the Spirit Garden and is a deeply moving and symbolic form of built heritage. The Alderville First Nation approached the City of Kingston in 2013 to develop a…
Murney House, Kingston 53 King Street E., called the Murney House, was protected under Pt. IV of the Ontario Heritage Act before the Old Sydenham Heritage Conservation District was approved in 2015. According to the Property Evaluation, the stone house was the first house constructed on the block. It was built in 1841 for Mrs….
222 Johnson Street 222 Johnson Street is one of many buildings which was protected under Pt. IV of the Ontario Heritage Act, as an individual building before the Old Sydenham Heritage District was approved in 2015. The large three bay, two and a half storey limestone building was built in 1860 by Dr. J. R….
7 George Street, Barriefield 7 George Street has heritage building status and is situated in the Barriefield Village Heritage Conservation District, the oldest heritage district in the Province of Ontario. The 1 and ½ storey, frame building described as a vernacular style which is common in the Village, with a front gable and two bays….
Anchor Building, Kingston The building known as the Anchor Building, was completed in 1856-1857 and designed in the brick Italianate style, featuring flat-faced facades, regular rows of arched windows with decorative window heads of different styles on each level, and a heavy roof cornice on the roof parapet. The building has historical or associative value…
The Pugh House One of 29 properties designated under a single City of Kingston By-law (80-63): “Built about 1845 for merchant Samuel W. Brady and owned and occupied for many years by shoemaker John Pugh and his family, this well-proportioned frame dwelling is a good example of the larger wooden dwellings in the village. The…
James Medley Jr. House The James Medley House is a one and a half storey limestone house built in 1856-7, on the north side of James Street in the Barriefield Heritage Conservation District. The house was reconstructed after damaged by fire in 1980s. James Medley Jr. was the architect/builder. This house has been lovingly restored by owners…
Hales Cottages A row of five attached cottages, four of which survive, was constructed for Charles Hales in 1841 to rent to government officials at the time that Kingston was capital of Upper and Lower Canada. The cottages faced the road that connected Kingston to the resident of the Governor General at Alwington House, at…
South Frontenac Museum Originally built of hammer dressed limestone blocks to be a schoolhouse in 1908, this building served that purpose for many years, then housed a library, and then as the home of the clothing depot for Community Caring Hartington. Plans for a museum started in 2001, with the Portland & District Heritage Society fundraising…
The Spire In the 1840’s the Methodists hired noted architect and builder William Coverdale to raise this imposing building that looks only slightly like the current Sydenham Street United Church/The Spire. The building was awarded by the Frontenac Heritage Foundation in 1996 when it was the Sydenham Street United Church and in 2018 as the…
Ham House If houses could only talk! To tell the history of Ham House is to tell the fascinating tale of Upper Canada after the War of 1812, at the beginning of the industrial revolution. An urban building located in Bath, it is said to have been built by the Farmers Store in 1816 and completed…
Kingston City Hall The Kingston City Hall is considered by many to be a masterpiece of 19th century architecture in Canada. The building was originally designed by George Browne, and at the time of its construction (1843-4), Kingston was for a brief time the capital of the country. The building is a National Historic Site (1961),…