Courtland Trio

So there I was. Boxing day 2021, chilling with KB and cruising around K-Town. And we see this row. I know what your thinking. This sounds like all the other stories that ishootthings has written down. SPOT ON. And it ends essentially the same. Scrappers had gotten in it appeared and maybe spent some nights and left some food and garbage and whatnot. But that was the apparent deal with all 3 houses. At least it make it easy. Didnt have much light in the first two one level + basement houses. But the larger red brick house on the end had light on the upper floor. And that was decent. Only known history as of now is that '49 and 53 Courtland Avenue East which reportedly have direct ties to the J.M. Schneider and Ahrens families, who were prominent industrialists and community leaders'. SOURCE: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/resourcesGeneral/Documents/DSD_PLAN_NPR_Draft_Cedar_Hill_Schneider_Creek_Appendix_C.pdf

It seems that these will or have been demolished, and that a HIA (Heritage Impact Assesment) has not been done. Thus, that sentence is all we all get. The last house is 45 Courtland Ave East, and it is a red brick one. It appeared to have the radiators disconnected and many were lugged to the basement. On the way down there, the stairs were damaged and the ceiling on the stairs to the basement was damaged. It could be scrappers, or it could have been the Developers salvage effort, via workers.

I ran thru these on Boxing Day 2021 and the whole row was hanging open. 11 days later (Jan 7th), 53 Courtland Ave East caught fire. "The home was a vacant property scheduled for demolition and there were signs that homeless people forced entry into the structure to stay there.", the article in the K-W Record read.... SOURCE: https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/vacant-house-catches-fire-in-kitchener-neighbourhood-1.5731263?fbclid=IwAR3o6TfTTjBzQxF4pyUrEwWjOS17WN5_6N0j4nn43ruXAAAIt4VF0wnkibc

Unexpected, and glad I had got to them. A friend had pointed them out to me at least 5 months earlier, and I had never followed thru. So now that the one has caught fire, all I can think, is at least I got to it before.