Ann Baillie Building - Kingston, Ontario
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N 44° 13.421 W 076° 29.523
18T E 380826 N 4897799
This first nurses residence at Kingston General Hospital, built between 1903-04, was later named in honour of Anne Baillie, superintendent of nurses from 1924 to 1947.
Waymark Code: WM14657
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 04/26/2021
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Built between 1903-04 to plans by William Newlands, this first nurses residence at Kingston General Hospital was later named in honour of Anne Baillie. Superintendent of Nurses from 1924 to 1947. Built of hammer dressed limestone with plain narrow string courses the metal-roofed building is cruciform in shape with a hipped roof on the east-west section and gabled on the north-south. The two storey portico facing the lake has four stone pillars with Ionic capitals. Wooden balustrades edge the wide entrance steps and the edges of the deep porches at the first and second storey levels. A large semi-circular fanlight tops the double entrance doors. A second plain entrance is in the western wing. Large double sash windows are placed in a regular pattern on all sides of the building.''
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Inscription on a plaque on site:
One of the earliest nurses' residences in Canada, this stately building symbolizes the development and recognition of nursing as a profession. The home was completed in 1904 for students at Kingston General Hospital's nursing school, who cared for patients in the wards and operating rooms as part of their training. The building was later named in honour of Ann Baillie, a graduate of the school and its superintendent from 1924 to 1942. Here, as elsewhere, a place of their own helped nurses shape a professional role indispensable to health care within the hospital and in the community.