I'm coming up with circa 1912 for this modest late-Edwardian apartment block. By then, limestone foundations were a dying breed. Goad (sheet 38, "reprinted, May 1912") depicts a three-storey, brick-on-wood "apartment house" without the present entryway/balcony appendage. Ads for the building mentioning "flats" with balconies appeared no later than 1925.
The lot originally served as the back-yard and sheds for a set of row-houses facing onto Kent, across from St. Patrick's Basilica.
Goad, 1912 — the red arrow indicates 253-255 Nepean. The row to its left, was eventually replaced by the Kent Place apartments at 225 Kent. Aerial photos show the old row extant until at least 1933.
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