Image of the front of 311- 313 King Street West, Hales Cottages in Kingston, Ontario, An icon in the top right corner indicates it is a Frontenac Heritage Foundation award winner.

Hales Cottages

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…

Vine Cottage

Vine Cottage

Vine Cottage Imagine when this part of the city near Macdonnell Street and Princess was farmland!  In 1838 Smith Barlett sold part of this farm on Farm Lot 22 to George Smith, who built circa 1840 a house called “Vine Cottage”.  The one and a half storey house has a hipped roof verandah on three…