- Address
- 294 King Street East
- Type
- Customs Building
- Designated
- 1986
Custom House
Also known as Kingston Customs House
294 King Street East, Kingston
Many historic buildings are private homes. Please enjoy them from the street.
About Custom House
In Kingston, Custom House is one of 18 federal buildings of the highest heritage rank. By its record, Custom House was built in 1856–1860. Its design is credited to Hopkins, Lawford and Nelson.
Situated in the Market Square heritage district of Kingston, the Custom House, also known as Kingston Customs House, is a two-storey, flat-roofed, rectangular, stone building, seven bays long and three bays wide. On its main façade a central projecting portico supported by piers houses the main entrance to the building. The building displays arched window openings uniform in shape and arranged in symmetrical tiers corresponding to the two storeys of the building. The designation is confined to the footprint of the building.
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, Custom House · Open Government Licence – Canada · quoted as the register has it
Of the buildings Canada owns, the most significant are Classified.
Questions about Custom House
When was Custom House built?
Work on Custom House is recorded as 1856–1860.
Can you visit Custom House?
From the street, yes; houses on the registers are mostly private.
What is Custom House?
Custom House is a Classified Federal Heritage Building, designated in 1986.
Is Custom House protected?
As a Classified federal building, any work on it needs the federal heritage review’s advice while Canada owns it.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract).
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).