Resort land turned residential, and the floors show it
The Beaches did not fill in all at once, which is why two houses on the same street can behave completely differently. The Kew and Balmy core carries genuinely early stock, with dated anchors running from 1901 through the early 1930s, while the streets laid out over the former Scarboro Beach park only exist because that park closed in September 1925 and the land was subdivided. Add the western edge, which was not fully opened up until Lake Shore Boulevard was extended to Woodbine in the 1950s. The housing is largely semi-detached and Edwardian, plus a good number of the cottage-scale homes the area protects deliberately. Small houses on wood frame with plank subfloors, close to the lake, cycling through humid summers and dry heated winters.