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St. Helen's built in 1837-38 by Thomas Kirkpatrick, a Kingston lawyer on 12 acres of waterfront property, has a varied history.
Kirkpatrick the first mayor of Kingston, sold to James Morton , operater of a brewery and distillery on an adjascent property, in the early 1850s.
By 1907 J.B. Pense, owner, publisher of The British Whig, had acquired the property and renamed it Ongwanada. The Bristish Whig is still in print today as the Kingston Whig Standard, Canada's oldest continually published newspaper.
During WW I it was leased by the Canadian Military as a much needed hospital and was purchased outright, and renamed St. Helen's, in 1919. St. Helen's today is occupied by Correctional Services Canada as Regional Offices. Throughout all this the house is still intact and word has it will be on the market shortly.