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Bellevue House

Bellevue House is a National Historic Site of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

Ontario · 35 Centre Street, Kingston, Ontario · location approximate

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BELLEVUE By the mid 1830s many of Kingston's wealthier families had sold their townhouses in favor of fashionable suburban estates. Bellevue, built about 1840, was a product of this retreat from the City. The house, with its pale stucco walls, campanile, verandahs and delicate eave fringe, imitated an Italian villa. Its Picturesque design was enhanced by its wooded setting amid informally landscaped gardens. Built for local merchant Charles Hale, Bellevue was leased in 1848 to a young lawyer, John A. Macdonald, Assembly member for Kingston and later Canada's first Prime Minister.

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Dès le milieu des années 1830, beaucoup de familles riches de Kingston avaient vendu leur maison du centre de la localité pour habiter d'élégantes propriétés en banlieue. La villa Bellevue est l'un des témoins de cet exode urbain. Ses murs en stuc pâle, son campanile, ses vérandas et la frange délicate de son avant-toit lui donnent l'allure de villa italienne. Le bois et les jardins paysagers mettaient son architecture en valeur. La villa fut construite vers 1840 pour un marchand local, Charles Hale, puis louée en 1848 au jeune avocat et homme politique, John A. Macdonald, futur premier ministre du Canada.

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VILLA BELLEVUE La demeure familliale en 1848-1849, de John A. Macdonald, avocat, et députè de Kingston à l'assemblée législative du Canada-Uni, plus tard sir John, et que forma le premier Cabinet Fédéral sous la confédération, 1867. Érigée vers 1840, Bellevue est un bel exemple de ces villas de style Italien, alors nouveau au Canada, et qui eut, par la suite, une certaine vogue.

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BELLEVUE 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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This plaque text is recorded in the Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, published by Parks Canada for the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Plaque texts come from the Directory’s open dataset in the languages the Directory publishes them in; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the Directory’s street address or local area and marked approximate. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
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