City of Kingston. By-Law No. 2007-167.

A By-Law to Designate 40 Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard, Also Known as 'The Prison for Women (P4W)' To Be of Cultural Heritage Value Pursuant to The Provisions of the Ontario Heritage Act, (R.S.O. 1990, Chapter 0.18.) Passed September 18, 2007.

The "Reasons for the Designation" include the following "important" attributes:

• hand worked limestone masonry veneer over a poured concrete core, which is smooth hammer dressed on the public faces of the C-18 Building and the rusticated blocks used on the rear elevations of C-18, the link between C-18 and C-16, and most of C-16,
• the use of the Auburn Penitentiary style cellblock reflects a desire to alter social behavior via architecture,
• its functions as a recognizable landmark in the City of Kingston and throughout Canada.

Architectural details associated with the C-18 Administration Building including:

• its more sophisticated classical architectural styling with the principle facade broken into seven bays,
• its copper coated hip roof topped with a distinctive cupola supported on a square base located just behind the central pediment in the front facade with an octagonal drum topped with a finial,
• its slightly projecting pedimented central entrance bay featuring on the ground floor a double door with a square headed transom set into a portico composed as an entablature and pediment carried by Tuscan columns,
• its distinctive fenestration which includes a modified Palladian window and a three-part window formed of narrow slides flanking a central window in the central bay of the principle facade, and the contrasting use of square headed windows on the first and third floor and the semicircle arched windows on the second floor of the symmetrical wings which flank the central section.

Architectural details associated with C-16 Cellblock, which is divided by fifteen bays with a three-bay rear wall, including:

• its classical style of architecture,
• its shallow pitched copper-covered hip roof,
• its symmetrical arrangement and distinctive treatment of windows which includes the use of semicircular arched windows with keystones,
• its cellblock design found on the third floor and mezzanine (fourth floor) which was more typical of men's prisons, and which is marked by its poured concrete walls, terrazzo floors, steel bars, elevated walkways, barriers, staircases and the locking mechanisms and
• a stone chimney on the north slope of the roof,
• its historic economic benefits to Kingston, through the creation of Federal positions, thereby contributing to the community of prison workers which were a unique group within Kingston, and
• contextual values such as views towards Portsmouth Olympic Harbour and Portsmouth Village and as part of a cultural heritage landscape of prison life within Kingston,.

A portion of the property fronting onto King Street West is included as part of the Kingston Penitentiary National Historic Site of Canada that contains the Warden's House at 555 King Street West. This portion of the property is also "Listed" as a property of cultural heritage value on the City of Kingston Register of Historic Places. (From pages 94 and 95 out of 95 pages "Union Park Kingston Redevelopment Project.")