3004 Dundas Street West, 1990s

We lived in this house from the late 1950s to the mid '60s when it was still on the corner. This house was identical to another house right beside the school on (Old) Bronte Road. That house is still there although I believe they have made some alterations.

There was a giant maple tree in the back yard we built a large tree fort in, and another large maple between the sidewalk and Bronte Road. When we lived there, there were no shutters but they do add a nice touch. The Palermo Hall was a few feet south of our house.

There were five rooms on the ground floor and four large bedrooms and a bath on the second floor. We also had an attached, unheated room off the kitchen visible in one of the photos. There was a 3/4 basement with cut stone walls and the attic was long before insulation was in vogue. I believe the oil furnace was a converted coal furnace. The large maple trees helped cool the house.

We moved into the house shortly after they had widened #5 (no one called it Dundas St. back then) to four lanes. On the property just west of us had been a gas station. This was torn down when they widened the road. That lot and the lot where they moved the house, came with the house. Today, all that is gone.

Lots of memories in that house and our time living in Palermo.