Coverdale, William

COVERDALE, William (1801-1865)

(biography in preparation)

(works in Kingston unless noted)

RESIDENTIAL

UNION STREET WEST, at College Street, ‘Roselawn’, for David Smith, 1841-43 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 97-9, illus.)

KING STREET EAST, near West Street, pair of houses for Noble Palmer, 1842-43 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 151-3, illus.)

JOHNSON STREET, near Bagot Street, ‘Greystone Manor’, a pair of houses for Thomas Askew, 1843 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 85-6, illus.)

KING STREET WEST, ‘Willow Cottage’, a pair of cottages for Rev. William M. Herchmer, 1843 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 125-6, illus.)

EARL STREET, near West Street, for John Fraser, 1847 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 66-7, illus.)

EARL STREET, near Sydenham Street, for Samuel Shaw, 1848-49 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 64-5, illus.)

ONTARIO STREET, shops, offices and dwellings for John & William Breden, 1848-49 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 69-71, illus.)

EARL STREET, near West Street, for William Grant, 1849-50 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 68-9, illus.)

EARL STREET, near Bagot Street, for Charles Greenwood, 1849-52 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 34-5, illus.)

SYDENHAM STREET, at Earl Street, ‘Rosemount’, a mansion for Edward H. Hardy, 1849-50 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 56-9, illus.)

QUEEN STREET, at Sydenham Street, for Thomas A. Corbett, 1851 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 105-07, illus.)

JOHNSON STREET, at Wellington Street, for James A. Henderson, 1851 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 71-2, illus.)

HILLCROFT DRIVE, ‘Hillcroft’, for Francis M. Hill, 1852-54 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 74-6, illus.)

JOHNSON STREET, near Clergy Street, pair of houses for John Mowat, 1852 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 98-100, illus.)

CENTRE STREET, ‘Elmhurst’, for Hugh Fraser, 1852 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 83-4, illus.)

(attributed) LOGAN STREET, for Maxwell Strange, 1853 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iii, 1975, 111-13, illus.)

YONGE STREET, pair of houses for Isabella McIntyre, 1853 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iii, 1975, 75-9, illus.)

KING STREET WEST, row of five houses for James Morton, 1853 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 127-8, illus.)

BEVERLY STREET, restoration and new second floor to house for John Breden, 1855 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 152-4, illus.)

PORTSMOUTH AVENUE, ‘Eldon Hall’, for John Flanigan, 1855 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 187-88, illus.)

JOHNSON STREET, ‘Welsey Terrace’, row of six houses for William Anglin, 1856 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 82-4, illus.)

BAGOT STREET, near West Street, pair of houses for the architect, 1856 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 3-4, illus.)

EMILY STREET, ‘Edgewater’, a pair of houses for Clark Hamilton and John Paton, c. 1857 (dwgs. at Queen’s University Archives, Newlands Coll., 241, 256)

PERTH, ONT., ‘Victoria Hall, for Judge John G. Malloch, 1857 (Bathurst Courier [Perth], 24 July 1857, 2, descrip.)

KING STREET EAST, near Lower Union Street, pair of houses for Richard Cartwright, 1858 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, v, 1980, 168-70, illus.)

DIVISION STREET, near Elliot Avenue, for Matthew Elliott, 1858-59 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 105-06)

OTHER WORKS

KINGSTON PENITENTIARY, King Street West, North Wing, 1836-40; East Wing, 1836-45; West Wing, 1838-57; Dining Hall, 1839-41; North Lodge and Main Gate, 1841-46; perimeter Walls and Towers, 1841-46, of which only fragments remain; West Gate and Tower, 1842-43; demol. 1906-07(; inf. from Dana Johnson, Ottawa; J. McKendry, ‘The Early History of the Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston’ in the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xiv, Dec. 1989, 94-6, 98-101, illus.)

KINGSTON PENITENTIARY, King Street West, Workshops Building, c. 1845 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 12 April 1848, 2, descrip.; J. McKendry, ‘The Early History of the Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston’, in the Society of the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xiv, Dec. 1989, 97-8, illus.)

ST. GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL, King Street East at Johnson Street, new portico, front bay extension, and bell tower, 1839-43 (Chronicle & Gazette [Kingston], 15 Jan. 1842, 3, t.c.; J. McKendry, ‘The Architects of St. George’s Cathedral, Kingston’ in Queen’s Quarterly [Kingston], xcv, Autumn 1988, 703, 707, illus.)

ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH, Union Street at Arch Street, 1844-45 (The Church [Toronto], 11 Oct. 1844, 56, descrip.; A. Anderson, The Anglican Churches of Kingston, 1963, 49, illus.; Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 247-9, illus.)

STUARTSVILLE, ONT., St. James Anglican Church, 1845 (The Church [Toronto], 5 Sept. 1845, 2, descrip.)

ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Queen Street at Montreal Street, 1845-47; damaged by fire 1854; rebuilt (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 131-35, illus.)

BARRIE STREET, at Union Street, parsonage for St. James Anglican Church, 1849 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 49-50, illus.)

PORTSMOUTH, St. John’s Anglican Church, Church Street, 1849-50; Rectory, Mowat Avenue, 1855 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iii, 1975, 85-7; 101-04, illus.; Paul Christianson, “St. John’s Anglican Church, Portsmouth and the Gothic Revival in Canada West” in Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, xxxviii, No. 1, 2013, 5-20, illus. & descrip.)

WILLIAMSVILLE CHAPEL, Victoria Street near Park Street, 1850 (Historical Record of Princess Street United Church, 1950, 1-2, illus.)

SYDENHAM STREET METHODIST CHURCH, 1851-52; tower and spire 1854 (Sydenham Street Methodist Church Jubilee Souvenir 1852-1902, 10, illus.; Kingston, Buildings of Architectural and Historic Significance, v, 1980, 233-36, illus.)
MARKET STREET, three shops for John Breden, 1852 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iv, 1977, 23)

PRINCESS STREET, two stores for George Hardy, 1852 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iv, 1977, 101-02, illus.)

MARKET SQUARE, commercial building for E.W. Palmer, 1854 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 21 April 1855, 2, descrip.)

ATCHESON BLOCK, King Street at Brock Street, 1856-57 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 30 April 1857, 2, descrip.; Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iv, 1977, 145-7, illus.)

NEWBURGH, ONT., Methodist Church, 1856-58 (P. Stokes et al, Rogue’s Hollow – Story of the Village of Newburgh Ontario, 1983, 95-6, illus.)

WELLINGTON STREET, addition to brewery for Philip Wenz, 1857 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, ii, 1973, 119-22, illus.)

JOHNSON STREET SCHOOL, also called Louise School, Johnson Street, 1857-58 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, vi, 1985, 119-20, illus.)

PORTSMOUTH, Rockwood Asylum, King Street West, begun 1859; completed 1868 by William M. Coverdale and John Power (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 5 May 1862, 2, descrip.; Canada, Sessional Papers, No. 24, 1861, First Annual Report of the Board of Inspectors of Asylums & Prisons for 1860, descrip.; Sutherland’s Directory of Kingston, 1867, 15; Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iii, 1975, 206-11, illus.; J. McKendry, ‘Rockwood Lunatic Asylum, Kingston’, in the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xviii, March 1993, 4-17, illus.)

KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL, Stuart Street at George Street, the Watkins Wing, 1862 (Daily British Whig [Kingston], 11 June 1862, 2, descrip.; J. de Jonge, ‘Metamorphosis of a Public Institution: The Early Buildings of the Kingston General Hospital’, in Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Bulletin, xxii, Sept. 1997, 77, illus.)

PORTSMOUTH TOWN HALL, King Street West, 1865 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, iii, 1975, 119-21, illus.; M. MacRae & A. Adamson, Cornerstones of Order, 1983, 212, illus.)

CITY HALL, Ontario Street, 1865, reconstruction of Market wing to replace portion erected 1841 and burned in early 1865 (Kingston, Buildings of Architectural & Historic Significance, i, 1971, 5)