Hey, it’s a big city and it doesn’t necessarily make a difference in getting things right when the name of your magazine is Toronto Life. And so it seems the venerable and sometimes pesky profiler of prominent persons has placed the proposed new location for the 119 Isabella St. “coach house” in Yorkville. Many homeowners even on the west side of Yonge would like to claim a Rosedale connection. But common sense and old maps say they are in Summerhill. Ah Summerhill, that upscale escape for wealthy families in hot weather from the disease-ridden downtown of the 19th Century. Yorkville was originally defined as south of Davenport but it appears to have crept somewhat north to Castle Frank Creek, which once coursed along Pears Ave. in Ramsden Park. The story so far is that Hiscox Holding Group wants to move the building to a small and yet-to-be severed lot on Molson Street behind 92 Roxborough St. W. It’s fairly well established that the building is not a coach house but a home used by servants of the family across the street.
The main issue is the application for a severance into two undersized residential lots. If the speculator proposed razing the existing house and replacing it with the so-called coach house he might not get as much pushback. But of corse he wants to cdouble his money.