180 Queens Avenue
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This house was built by Robert Murray Herod on Lot 163, Plan M77 for his son Archibald Herod in 1912.
Though he was already living on Queens Avenue by 1899, in June 1902 Robert Murray Herod acquired a number of lots on the west side of the street from R. H. Guthrie. The purchase included lots 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 168.
Archibald was living in his father's house at 182 Queens Avenue in the 1901 and 1911 census. However, on March 13, 1912 he got married to Annie Melinda Jarvis at Parkdale Presbyterian Church on Dunn Avenue in Parkdale. Where would the newlyweds live?
On December 24, 1912 Robert Murray Herod sold Lot 163, and the new house he had just built on it, to his son Archibald Herod for $400 as well as assumption of the mortgage to William Jackson of $1,500. This discounted price for a house must have been a Christmas gift to his newly married son.
Archibald and his father would form the Herod Construction Company a few years later which built many homes and other buildings in Mimico and the surrounding district.
Archibald didn't live here very long however, selling the house on June 4, 1919 to Thomas Hogg and his wife Carrie Louisa Hogg for $3,800. He then moved to 149 Queens Avenue down the street. By 1929 he was living at 53 Primrose Avenue.
While still a relatively young man of 39 he died of a heart attack after rushing up three flights of stairs to wish a friend farewell in April 1932. He was buried in Parklawn Cemetery.
Globe and Mail - April 29, 1932
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