Bellevue

Photos by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted December, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
On the east side of Centre Street
between Edgehill Street and King Street West

Coordinates: 44 13.376 W 76 30.245

Plaque Text

Built about 1840, Bellevue House is one of the most interesting examples surviving in Canada of Italian Villa architecture, a style that was new in the country and novel in Kingston. This type of residence subsequently became popular in Canada. John A. Macdonald, later first Prime Minister of Canada, lived here with his family from August, 1848, to September, 1849. At the time the rising young lawyer was Member for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

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Posted January 22, 2010
For anyone who has never visited, Bellevue is WELL WORTH your time!!! Fascinating!!

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