Apartments

Queens Court Apartment, Queen Street, 1958

Queens Court Apartment sketch and plot plan prepared for S. P. Paoli in July 1958. The building is located on Queen Street, between Reserve and Douglas Streets. Aubrey C. MacKinnon, Draftsman.

Kent Plaza, Kent Street, 1964

The front page of The Guardian, September 24, 1964, highlighted the Queen's plans to visit the Island on October 5th to 7th and also included this article "Apartment Building Scheduled" and the text reads:

A modern, high-rise apartment block, the first of its kind in PEI is soon to be built in Charlottetown by G. Stewart MacKay Real Estate of Charlottetown.

The site of the new ultra-modern complex will be on Kent Street opposite Rochford Square. Demolition of a double and a single tenement house on that block began yesterday to make way for the new building, for which construction should begin within two weeks Stewart MacKay said yesterday.

The apartment block will have 26 units and will stand six stories high. Paved parking area for all tenants will be supplied, as well as janitor and elevator service.

Completion date for the new bulding has been set for the first of May when the building is hoped to be filled with tenants, Mr. MacKay said.

The whole building will be electrically heated throughout and will contain a sprinkler system. Penthouse deluxe apartments will be on the fifth and sixth floors and these tenants will be afforded a wide view of the city and the harbor.

The whole building will be of brick, concrete and steel and will be as fireproof as a building can be made, according to Mr. MacKay. The architect is Keith Pickard of Charlottetown.

Further newspaper articles on September 28, 1964 report that electric heating is being introduced on PEI and expected to grow in popularity.