131 KING St #8, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2Z9

131 King E was fashioned in the Georgian style from local limestone in 1842 by William Coverdale. Today it houses a set of unique and desirable condominiums just a block from Lake Ontario and City Park. On the far side of the park is the university campus. Same distance in the other direction is Kingston's downtown core. Unit 8 is spread elegantly over four floors. At its heart (on the second level) is a ballroom well-disguised as a living room, with towering ceilings and windows, a suite of built-in bookcases. Off to one side, the custom kitchen, with its quartz counters and stainless appliances, feels to have perfected the form, and the balcony off the southern face is where you head with breakfast. There is a bedroom a few steps down from this level, as well as on each of the two floors above. The principal bedroom, in fact, with its ensuite bathroom and its walk-in, involves an intensely modern staircase from a lower level staging area. It is where you dress for the ball, perhaps. Exposed limestone and brick pops up regularly. There is a stained glass transom window and two decorative fireplaces. The sense throughout the nearly 2400 square feet is of history accommodating you, and enhancing the experience of living at the very centre of things, rather than simply imposing itself. Parking, of course, is right at the door.