The Princess Towers is an apartment block located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The tower was originally known as Elrond College, an experiment in a new model of student housing. Elrond College, associated with Queen's University, was designed as a non-profit student run co-operative. The brutalist style structure was built to house the college in 1972, and was the first high rise constructed in Kingston. The building had 184 apartments and was designed to hold 400 students. Some of the floors were divided between split-level apartments; this means there is no 5th or 10th floor stop on the elevator. The students would pool their labour to keep the building maintained, and would pay towards the substantial mortgage the co-operative took out to build the structure. The residence was named af