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 Spire, at tall cathedral at 82 Sydenham Street, Old Sydenham Heritage District, Kingston, Ontario, An icon in the top right corner indicates it is a Frontenac Heritage Foundation award winner.

The Spire

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…