Kingston Provincial Campus Master Plan

The campus of the former Kingston Psychiatric Hospital – the Kingston Provincial Campus – is a 122 acre site located on the shores of Lake Ontario, west of downtown Kingston. It is bounded by Portsmouth Village on the east, King Street and the campus of St. Lawrence College on the north, and Lake Ontario Park on the west. The Kingston Provincial Campus contains one of the oldest complexes of its type in North America, and the oldest surviving purpose-built asylum in Canada. Established in the 1850s, it incorporates a nationally significant country estate and, within this cultural landscape, adds a variety of high quality buildings and structures constructed over the next half century. The site as a whole has three main components, reflecting the original three farm properties upon which the campus developed. Of these, the central (Cartwright) lot contains the majority of the buildings, landscapes and archaeological sites that represent the cultural heritage resources of greatest significance. Bray Heritage prepared a heritage impact statement for the proposed master plan, providing historical research (with Dr. Jennifer McKendry), identification of cultural heritage landscapes and built heritage resources, and conservation and development strategies that integrated heritage resources with new development and with adjacent public open space, institutions, and residential neighbourhoods. The Plan has been adopted by IO and the first phase of development is now underway.