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A development application was filed in October 2018 to demolish the exisiting house and replace it with a much larger 2.5 story house.
This property was one of the first on Bracken Avenue to be occupied. While a 2015 Globe and Mail article and 2018-19 zoning application list the house's construction date as or c. 1913, the lot was vacant until 1916. The first mention of the lot (lot 134) in the Toronto City directory occurs in 1917, and lists Albert G. Hill. At that time, two properties on the north side of Bracken Avenue and one vacant lot on the south side were listed in the directory.
This Arts and Crafts, or Craftsman, style house sitting on a raised basement is built of buff brick with cedar shingle faced second and third floors. The third floor features a triangular shaped gable on the north side, balanced by a dormer window on the southern second floor, both with prominent bracketed eaves. The steeply pitched, sweeping roof on the southern half of the house covers an extensive verandah, its overhanging roof supported by groups of simple columns in an unusual arrangement of one short and two tall columns on brick pillars. The sash hung windows are in groups of three or four.
Original features of the house include oak trim and beamed ceilings. At one point, these were painted over but were later restored by owners in the 21st century.
The house received the name 'Moose House' at one point due to one of the owner's displaying a mounted moose head trophy on their front porch.