1845 - Inside Kingston Pen's Main Entrance - Kingston, Ontario
N 44° 13.249 W 076° 30.819
18T E 379095 N 4897512
The entrance gate to Canada's most notorious prison, Kingston Penitentiary, was built in 1845. Now that the prison is closed for its original use, this Canadian National Historic Site is open for public tours.
Waymark Code: WMXY3K
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 03/15/2018
Views: 2
The entrance gate to Canada's most notorious prison, Kingston Penitentiary, was built in 1845. Now that the prison is closed for its original use, this Canadian National Historic Site is open for public tours.
From the Historic Site website:
"Opened in 1835, the Kingston Penitentiary is Canada’s oldest reformatory prison. Its layout, with an imposing front gate leading to a cross-shaped cellblock and three rear workshops, became the model for other federal prisons for more than a century. William Powers, the Deputy warden of Auburn Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, furnished designs for the facilities inside the walls, an impressive architectural grouping of 19th-century classically styled structures. These were built in local stone, largely by the inmates, to working plans of local architects and builders John Mills, William Coverdale, and Edward Horsey."
Year of construction: 1845
Cross-listed waymark: Not listed
Full inscription: Not listed
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