Half House

This guide to Half House in Toronto opens in the 1950s, when a property company began flooding one small house on this row with bylaw notices and work orders, part of a push to clear six matching Victorian row houses for a new development called the Village by the Grange. It follows how neighbors sold one by one under pressure from agents, while the household at number fifty-four and a half refused every offer. Wrecking crews reached the house next door sometime in the 1970s, working under the holdout family's watchful eye.