The Anchor Building, King St. E and Brock Shared by Shirley Bailey

The Anchor Building

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…

Image of the front of City Hall in Kingston, Ontario. An icon in the top right corner indicates it is a Frontenac Heritage Foundation award winner.

Kingston City Hall

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),…