Address: 723 Field Street
Built: 1911
1912 householder: Mrs. Anna Hamilton, apartment building owner

A permit was issued in July 1911 to building contractors Dinsdale & Malcolm, authorizing the construction of a three-storey brick apartment block at a cost of $20,000. The block contained twenty-five apartments. It is an attractive, well-proportioned building and one of the first apartment blocks in the north end of the city. It was a convenient location for many residents and by the summer of 1912 all of the apartments had been rented.

The building owner, Mrs. Anna Hamilton, had two adjoining units on the ground floor, suites 1 and 3. Other apartments were rented to individuals and married couples. The tenants' occupations reflected the Edwardian building boom. In 1912 there were no less than three building contractors, a plumbing and heating contractor, a street paving contractor and two real estate agents residing in the Field Street apartments. Other tenants included a couple of accountants, a commercial photographer, watchmaker, typewriter agent, hardware store clerk, immigration inspector, policeman and physician.

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