Items are architectural drawings executed in water colour of floor plans, cross sections and back elevation for Criminal Lunatic Jail, Kingston (later Kingston Psychiatric Hospital) ca. 1850 by Montreal architectural firm Hopkins, Lawford and Nelson. This proposed design was never instituted.

Fonds reflects the architectural practice of William Coverdale and his son William Miles Coverdale and is comprised of correspondence, financial records, design submissions and specifications, estimates, and reports relating various projects including the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, better known as Rockwood Asylum at Kingston, Ontario. Also includes photographs of the summer home of William Hugh Coverdale at Lemoine's Point Farm.

The drawings represent heritage buildings in many towns and regions in southern Ontario such as Adolphustown, Bath, Claireville, Cobourg, Cornwall, Grafton, Islington, Kingston, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Perth, Port Hope and Toronto. Two northern towns are represented by North Bay and Penetanguishene. The drawings represent a variety of structures from churches, clubs and rectories to commerical buildings, factories and mills. The material is organized alphabetically according to town or region.

Fonds consists of architectural drawings and other material related to a number of projects in Kingston and the surrounding area; correspondence; diaries; invoices; contracts; specifications; tenders; notebooks; and financial statements relating to the life and career of Mr. Connidis

The fonds consists of project files, research and reports relating predominantly to the preservation of historic buildings in Ontario. Includes copied and original architectural drawings, photographs of each project site, and correspondence and minutes relating to each project. Also includes some research material relating to papers written by Scheinman, as well as conferences at which he presented.