I'm sure this house was the talk of the neighbourhood when it first appeared on a block of otherwise dour Victorian houses and corner stores. Now it sits, a stranded time-traveler nestled in the southern "armpit" of the Bowery Condo tower, 255 Bay Street.
The house is a grab-bag of styles, but I can bracket its construction to some time between 1933 and 1958, relying on a pair of grainy aerial photos. Between Goad and the City Directories, the lot seems not to have been built upon prior to 1923 — which is to say that #363 may well be the first and only house to have ever claimed this patch of ground.
