Apartment houses were controversial insertions into the built environment of Canadian cities in the early twentieth century. More recently, some early apartments have been demolished and replaced by high-rise or non-residential buildings, but others have acquired heritage status. Small-scale, originally walk-up apartments on inner suburban residential streets are praised for their domestic and homely characteristics, precisely what they were thought to lack when first erected. Through a series of brief case studies, this article traces the changing fortunes of pre-First World War apartment houses in Toronto and Montreal. It charts both their ‘real’ experience of neglect, abandonment, reuse, conservation or renovation, and their representation in literature and on screen: as ‘bohemian’, ‘modern’, home to dysfunctional or marginal characters, or complex mixtures of semi-public and semi-private space. While survival or demolition has sometimes been a matter of chance, it is also evident that geography is critical in determining their fate.
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Pub Date : 2016-07-01DOI: 10.3138/9781442622357-002
H. Mackenzie
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