INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

house_history

When a covered Vancouver house was built and what stood there: the building permit (1901–1930) and the City's year built, what the 1912 fire insurance map draws on the lot and whether today's building is very likely that one, what stands today, and who lived there in each directory year with each listing's source page.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://addresslore.com/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for house_history and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

addresslore.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.addresslore]
url = "https://addresslore.com/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "addresslore": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://addresslore.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: addresslore
Remote MCP URL: https://addresslore.com/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "addresslore": {
      "url": "https://addresslore.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "addresslore": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://addresslore.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "addresslore",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://addresslore.com/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

find_house — Look up a Vancouver address, or a resident's surname from 1945 or earlier, in AddressLore's coverage.
coverage — The Vancouver streets, blocks and directory years AddressLore covers, with each street's page.