HOUSE HISTORY PRODUCTS
Our personalized house histories are offered in four different formats to fit a range of interests and budgets.
POSTER
Enjoy the highlights of your house's history in an attractive timeline format suitable for framing. The standard version incorporates the subdivision creation date, house construction year, all owner names, purchase dates, purchase prices, names of first occupants and historical property maps.
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Additional enhancements can include original building permit, original subdivision map, vintage photos and newspaper clippings as well as neighbourhood history highlights.
Provided as a 18" x 24" PDF ready for printing at your local print shop or Staples store. ​
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PRIMER
An elegant printed exploration of your home's origin, the Primer profiles the house's construction, original owners and architectural style as well as the early development of the neighbourhood.
Published in 8 1/2" X 11" softcover format on premium paper stock and contains eight pages of illustrated content. It's also provided in digital format to share with friends.
Makes a great one-of-a-kind housewarming gift for the new homeowner that has everything and a compelling sales tool for realtors that want to highlight a property's prestige!
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SCRAPBOOK
Designed to capture mementos of not only your home's past but also its unwritten future, the Scrapbook is a treasured keepsake that can be handed down to subsequent owners for generations to come.
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The bulk of the album includes a synopsis of your home's early history, profiles of the original owner and occupants and a summary of property ownership up to the present day lavishly supplemented by reproductions of related historical documents, newspaper clippings and vintage photographs.
The remainder of the book consists of blank pages for you to write the latest chapter in your home's ongoing history. Use these to add your own photos, stories and renovation plans.
Printed in an oversized 17" x 11" format with approximately twenty five printed pages handsomely enclosed in an engraved leather cover. Bound with Chicago screws so it can be easily disassembled to add more pages as needed.
CHRONICLE
This premium offering provides the most extensive level of research and weaves the results into a comprehensive illustrated narrative about the residence, its residents and the local neighbourhood dating back to colonial times. You can even write your own foreword!
The 10" X 10" hardcover book contains approximately thirty pages and the cover design is available in a variety of attractive templates. The end result is a striking coffee table book designed to delight homeowners and impress visitors.
The book is also provided in digital format so you can easily share your home's engaging story with friends and family.​
COMMERCIAL PROPERTY HISTORIES
All of our products are also available for commercial property histories. See our blog profile of 300 Jarvis Street in Toronto for an example of the story of one such property, a nearly century-old hotel for which no past business records existed. Relying solely on first-hand period sources we were able to piece together a backstory so comprehensive that more than half the uncovered information had to be omitted in order to keep the post to a manageable reading time.