Across the Street from the 1850s pre-Confederation Post Office is the 1950s Post Office. When I was a kid, this was a new style. Now nothing is build like it, all glass and panel and steel.  •  The Current Kingston Post Office Central Sorting Station.  •  I don't know what so say about these …

At the corner of Wellington and Clarence, the colonial government built the Post Office in the late 1850s. It sits across Wellington Street from the current main station whose 1950s glass and steel lines will be featured soon.  •  Kingston Post Office, 1856-59.  •  It is still in use and features …

I noticed this fence this lunchtime afternoon when I did a march around to take some more photos of downtown Kingston archtecture. This is the fence behind St. George's Anglican running along wellington. Each of these bishop's hat (mitre?) post toppers is size of my hand.

A few weeks ago, I posted a photo of St. Paul's Anglican, which was built in 1845. Next to the church in a side garden is a small cemetery which pre-dates the church and was the cemetery for St. Georges on King and Johnston, three blocks south-west and one south-east. In the 1780's, when the …

In City Hall there is a great room called Memorial Hall where in the past Sir John A. MacDonald was laid in state and now where meetings on planning matters are held or, as shown at the very bottom of this post, citizenship hearings. Memorial Hall was remade in the 1920s as a memorial to the lost …

This is kind of weird. At the side door of city hall, there is a fairly grand and fairly worn out three bulb light fixture which I have never really had a good look at before. At the base of the entire thing is this sea creature. The other side is utterly rusted out. There is a matching one on the …

Looks like the ICBMs hit Napanee this evening. Nice knowing you all.  •  Later: a larger view as well as one of the aftermath.