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),…