Sylvan Apartments

This low rise apartment was built in 1910 in the Dufferin Grove neighbourhood of Toronto. It started out as just a row along Sylvan street, but in 1927 an additional row of apartments going down Havelock street was built creating the L shaped building found there today. Now the building is condemned and sits boarded up waiting for the day it is demolished. I have found a blog detailing the history of the building which is very well written and full of information so if you'd like more information please give it a read.

An exerpt:
The Sylvan was developed by Harry Hutson, of the real-estate firm J. T. & H. Hutson. Hutsons building met the increasing demand for accessible housing with consideration and care. The two one-bedroom and fourteen two-bedroom units were approximately seven hundred and nine hundred square feet, respectively. Along with the pedestal sinks, each units bathroom was outfitted with either a cast-iron deep soaker or a claw-foot tub, and residents had access to a large basement storage space. A row of garages stretched across the back of the property, and most units led out to private balconies and porches overlooking the garden. Beautiful and spacious, the Sylvan offered working-class renters all the trimmings enjoyed by middle-class homeowners 1924 classified in the Toronto Star lists the price of a five-room unit at fifty dollars. By the time Ziman left her sunny two-bedroom apartment, in 2003, her rent was approximately seven hundred dollars a month. People didn't leave the Sylvan unless they died or bought a house, she says.