User:Geo Swan/230 Sherbourne Street

230 Sherbourne Street was formerly the stately home of the prominent William Dineen family of Toronto, Ontario. The house was built in 1871. The neighbourhood of Sherbourne Street where the house was built was the home of many prominent families in the 19th Century. But by the early 20th Century the center of the city had moved west, prominent families had relocated, and the home had been converted to a rooming house.

By the 21st Century the house was being described as representative of Toronto's housing problems. The house remains boarded up, and unimproved, at a time when the city has a homelessness problem.

Toronto City Council passed a bylaw designating the house a heritage structure on April 25, 2012.