I’m sure that many readers are familiar with the long vacant and derelict house at the s.w. corner of Riverside Drive East and Aylmer.
As the years have gone on, the house has been getting worse and worse. We’ll low and behold I drove past it, this past Saturday and it was long gone. Amazing when you look at the site now to imagine there used to be a house on it, as the site is extremely tiny.
I bet that lot will stay empty for a long time.
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My Dad lived there in early 70's, it was a rooming/flop/party house. I remember it being trashed back then. I believe a fellow named Phelps owned it then.
I used to live in that house we lived up on the top floor of it. We moved there back in the late 70's after the fire broke out at the other corner up on Alymer and Chatham when it took the life of Mrs Cook. And all three houses that were on each corner from riverside up to university were own by the same owner's. And each home met the same fate as the last there were all destroyed by fire.
No the family who owned the house also own's the house at the corner of Catoraqui and Glenngary across the street from the meat place. And the son still lives there I am not correct on the spelling but it was Hyjasi or something along them line's. The family was later charged with some fraud and theft of carpeting if I remember correctly.
Andrew, I have a friend who managed to get into the basement...but then discovered that there was no way up to the ground floor :D He said that the basement was terribly boring (so now you know what a 1/4 of the interior looked like :))