One Fallingbrook Road
One Fallingbrook Road, aslo known as Edgemont' is a notable residential property in Toronto, Canada.[1][2] As of 2021[update] the property is over 100 years-old. Records are in dispute as to whether it was built in 1889, 1904 or 1907. The house was built by H.P. Eckardt
The house sits on a one acre property atop the Scarborough Bluff, and there is long wooden stairway down to the properties 183 foot beach front, on Lake Ontario.[1]
When the property was last sold, in 2013, to restrict those touring the house to serious buyers the real estate agents requested a donation to the Sick Kids Hospital Fund.[3] No pictures of the house's interior were made public during the 2013 sale. The interior has been stripped to the studs for its 2021 sale.[1] The property sold for over %5 million, in 2013. Agents are asking for over $7 million, in 2021. According to The Toronto Star its previous sale was in 1998, for $1.5 million.
The main house is three storeys tall and has seven bedrooms.[4] It shares the property with a two outbuildings.[2] One is a former 2-storey garage, converted to a guest-house or servants quarters. The other building is described as enclosing a small indoor pool, but in 2013 the Toronto Star said it " looks more like a wood-covered baseball dugout."
According to The Globe and Mail the home is in "one of Toronto's Prime Real Estate Pockets".[5] Due to a heritage designation the properties owners can't raze the buildings, or renovate the exteriors, without approval from a heritage board.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Misha Gajewski (2021-06-01). "This sprawling 100-year-old house in Toronto has its own private beach for $7 million". Blog TO. Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20210614104657/https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2021/06/1-fallingbrook-road-toronto/. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Susan Pigg (2013-05-07). "Beach home for sale, but it’ll cost you $50 just to see it". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2016-02-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160208092357/https://www.thestar.com/business/real_estate/2013/05/07/beach_home_for_sale_but_itll_cost_you_50_just_to_see_it.html. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
- ↑ Jennifer Kwan (2013-05-07). "Royal LePage agent Dagmara Lulek charging $50 to view Toronto Beach home". Yahoo Finance. Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20130510020901/https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/pay-day-/royal-lepage-agent-dagmara-lulek-charging-50-view-142011202.html. Retrieved 2021-06-14. "The idea is to keep the gawkers away, said Dagmara Lulek, the Royal LePage listing agent, who along with Vito Doria proposed the idea to the owner."
- ↑ "$50 Donation Required To See $5-Million Toronto House At 1 Fallingbrook Road". The Huffington Post Canada. 2013-05-07. Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20180319225108/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/07/toronto-house-50-viewing-donation-1-fallingbrook_n_3232146.html. Retrieved 2021-06-14. "According to the Toronto Star, it’s just one of a dozen or so homes in Toronto that have private access to Lake Ontario."
- ↑ Carolyn Ireland (2013-04-11). "Where are Toronto’s prime real estate pockets?". Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20210225051446/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/where-are-torontos-prime-real-estate-pockets/article11053637/. Retrieved 2021-06-14. "Fallingbrook Road runs just west of the rolling golf greens of the Toronto Hunt Club and south of Kingston Road."
