Inside a Trinity-Bellwoods Victorian
Home of the Week: The red brick Victorian row house owned by writer Leah MacLaren and now for sale, priced at $599,000.
This house is well positioned downtown – just a dog’s trot from the shops and cafés on Queen Street West and Trinity Bellwoods Park
Oreiginally built in late 1800s has three bedrooms (two decent-sized, one perfect for an office or a baby’s room), one upstairs bathroom with a deep soaker tub, a welcoming kitchen and sun room flowing out to a back garden filled with mature lilac and hydrangea bushes and, that downtown Toronto clincher, a back alley parking spot.
Since the mid-2000s, the Bellwoods Park area has gone from shabby chic to super chic, establishing itself as the beating heart of downtown Toronto’s rapid west-end gentrification. Over night, abandoned factories became swanky lofts and greasy smoke shops were transformed into lifestyle emporiums.