PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS by JENNIFER McKENDRY

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The following 3 entries are unpublished thesis and research paper topics. There is an index for each thesis; copies are at Queen's University, University of Toronto and the National Library of Canada.

1991

Ph.D., Art History, University of Toronto

dissertation on "William Coverdale and the  architecture of Kingston from 1835 to 1865"

1986

 M. Phil., Art History, University of Toronto

research paper on "Selected Architectural Drawings and Buildings of John and Joseph Power of Kingston, Ontario, 1850-1900"

1984

M.A., Art History, Queen's University

thesis on "Aspects of Domestic Architecture in South-Eastern Ontario: Siting, Interiors and Selected Furnishings of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Counties, 1820-1850"

2008

" 'Beneath the green and flowery sod, beneath the waving and weeping foliage': Sir John A. Macdonald and Cataraqui Cemetery"

forthcoming - Historic Kingston 56 (2008)

2007

architectural history of selected buildings at the Kingston General Hospital unpublished report for Carl Bray Heritage for KGH
  forthcoming: history of certain parts of Fort Frederick, Kingston unpublished report for Cataraqui Archaeological Research Foundation (CARF), Kingston

2006

with Brian S. Osborne Exploring Downtown Kingston Interesting Places & Spaces

Kingston Economic Development Corporation

 

Architectural Character Statement, downtown Kingston

unpublished report for Baird Sampson Neuert architects for the City of Kingston
 

with Sue Bazely, “Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment Canadian Forces Base Kingston,” report,

unpublished report for CARF
 

with Sue Bazely, “Stage 1 Archaeological Assessment 326 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario,” report, CARF, Kingston and “Stages 2 & 3 Archaeological Assessment 326 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario"

unpublished report for CARF
  “Chronology of Lake Ontario Park, Kingston, Ontario,” unpublished report for Carl Bray Heritage for the City of Kingston

2005

Entry on “Robert  Gage”

 

forthcoming, vol. 47, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon

 

"Into the Spotlight: The Architectural Practice of Robert Gage, Kingston and California."

Ontario History, Vol. XCVII,  (Spring 2005): 28-47

 

Book Review of Robert Wetherell and Dundurn: an Architect in Early Hamilton by Stephen Otto

Ontario History, Vol. XCVII,  (Spring 2005):108-109

 

Portsmouth Village, Kingston: an Illustrated History buy this book

by the author

2004

“In the Camera’s Eye: People and Places in Kingston”

Historic Kingston 52 (2004): 51-55

 

“Chronology of University Avenue, Kingston,”

unpublished report for for Carl Bray Heritage Queen’s University
  “Chronology of McBurney Park, Kingston” unpublished report for Carl Bray Heritage for the City of Kingston

2003

Into the Silent Land: Historic Graveyards and Cemeteries in Ontario  buy this book

by the author

 

“First Congregationalist Church (Masonic Hall): a Remarkable Gothic Church”

Historic Kingston 51: 44-54

 

the architectural history of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre

unpublished report, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston

 

the architectural history of the Gildersleeve House & Architect’s Office

Private commission, unpublished report

2002 to 2007

Writer, editor, designer, Foundations, newsletter of the Frontenac Heritage Foundation

Frontenac Heritage Foundation, Kingston

2002

entry on "Arthur Ellis" vol. 33, Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon

2001

book review of James Stevens Curl’s The Victorian Celebration of Death

AGS Quarterly vol. 25, summer, 23

 

with Blake McKendry, Key Dates in Canadian Art

  buy this book

by the author

2000

with four other authors: An Illustrated Guide to Monuments, Memorials & Markers in the Kingston Area buy this book

Kingston Historical Society

 

Weep Not For Me: an Illustrated History of Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston  buy this book

Revised & enlarged edition, by the author

 

Architecture Honouring the Dead” in Celebrating One Thousand Years of Ontario’s History

The Ontario Historical Society

 

book review of The Provincial Asylum in Toronto, ed. Edna Hudson

Journal of the SSAC vol. 25; numbers 2, 3, 4; p. 61

1999

Entries on “William Coverdale Senior” and “William Coverdale Junior” 

Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon band 22

 

Architectural History Report on Elizabeth Cottage (with additions 2002)

Unpublished report for Elizabeth Cottage, Kingston

 

Early Photography in Kingston buy this book

2nd edition, revised and enlarged, by the author

 

co-author with Ruth McKendry, Hold Fast: The Story of William & Catherine McLeod and their Descendants, Glengarry County buy this book

Blake McKendry, Kingston

1997

“The Role of Cataraqui Cemetery in the Rural Cemetery Movement” in Conserving  Ontario’s Landscapes,

Architectural Conservancy of Ontario 

 

Book Review of William Thomas, Architect, 1799-1860 by McArthur and Szamosi,

The Canadian Historical Review, 297-8

 

“Researching Historic Properties”

Frontenac Historic Foundation Bulletin, vol. 24, May, 5-7

1996

 "The Role of Cataraqui Cemetery in the Rural Cemetery Movement"

Historic Kingston, vol. 44, 3-9, 52

 

Historic Portsmouth Village, Kingston

by the author

1995

With Our Past Before Us: Nineteenth-Century Architecture in the Kingston Area buy this book

University of Toronto Press

 

Weep Not For Me: A Photographic Essay and History of Cataraqui Cemetery

by the author

 

"The Role of Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, in the Rural Cemetery Movement."

Newsletter of the Association for Gravestone Studies 19 Fall 1995: 10-13.

1993

  Editor of Abstracts.  Town and Country: the Architecture of Work and Leisure, Profit and Pleasure

conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada

 

Town and Country Houses: Regional Architectural Drawings from Queen's University Archives

by the author

 

"An Ideal Hospital for the Insane?: Rockwood Lunatic Asylum, Kingston, Ontario"

Bulletin, SSAC, vol. 18 no.1, 4-17

 

Front-cover photograph on Douglas Fetherling's A Little Bit of Thunder: The Strange Inner Life of the Kingston Whig Standard

Stoddart Publications

1992

"Greetings from Kingston"

Whig-Standard, Kingston, 4 January, 4-13

 

" 'A Residence Fit for any Gentleman in the Country': Three Kingston Villas by George Browne"

RACAR 19, 68-78

1991

"Iobairt-bhuidheachais air son aoigheachd do-bhrigh ghlac iad sinn le h-acarachd"

Bulletin, SSAC, vol. 16 no. 2, 52-3

 

"Kingston's 'Lilliputian' Crystal Palace: Canada's first permanent exhibition hall"

Bulletin, SSAC, vol. 16 no. 3, 72-78

1989

"The Early History of the Provincial Penitentiary, Kingston"

Bulletin, SSAC, vol. 14 no. 4, 93-105

 

"A Case Study in the Attributions of Two Important  Kingston Villas"

Canadian Art Review, RACAR, vol. XVI no. 1, 49-52

1988

"The Attitude of John Nash Towards the Gothic Revival Style"

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. XLVII, Sept., 295-6

 

"The Architects of St. George's Cathedral, Kingston" 

Queen's Quarterly, vol. 95 no. 3, 699-713

 

Book Reviews of The Buildings of Samuel Maclure by Segger and Victorian Architecture in London and Southwestern Ontario by Tausky & DiStefano

University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 58 no. 1, 201-203

1986

Book Review of Toronto Architecture: A City Guide by McHugh

Queen's Quarterly, vol. 93 no. 2,458-9

1984

"The Old Kingston Road: a Pictorial"

Canadian Geographic, vol. 104 no. 2, 42-49

1982

"Problems in Style of Architectural Cupboards in Early 19th Century Kingston and Area"

The Upper Canadian, July-August, 44-46

1982

"Architectural Cupboards -- the Product of the Cabinet-Maker or House Joiner?"

The Upper Canadian, March-April, 46-48

1981

"Clothing Styles as a Guide to Dating Early 19th Century China"

The Upper Canadian, July-August, 14-15

 

"From Public Waterfront to High-Rise Development -- The History of Two Properties on Ontario Street"

Historic Kingston, vol. 29, 16-29

1980

The Old Kingston Road

Oxford University Press

 

"Dating Staffordshire Figurines"

- see also article on this site Staffordshire Figurines

The Upper Canadian, Sept.-Oct., 24-25

 

"Researching Houses and Families"

Families, 19 no.4, 291-303

1979

Early Photography in Kingston

Blake McKendry, Kingston

1978

"A Romance Laid to Rest -- Gun Slits or Air Vents?" 

Historic Kingston, vol. 26, 12-28

1977

Article in New Life for Old Buildings

Heritage Canada and Frontenac Historic Foundation

1973-75

Assisted in writing volumes two and three of Buildings of Historical & Architectural Significance

City of Kingston

1971

“In Praise of Older Houses”  - see also article on this site In Praise

Weekend Magazine, Issue 47, 20 Nov. 1971

1971-80

Weekly "McKendry Column" and special features in the Whig-Standard on antiques and architecture - sampling among articles listed in  antiques on this site

Whig-Standard, Kingston

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