AddressLore MCP Server

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answering

AddressLore is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Vancouver house histories by address: who lived there each year to 1945, permits and the 1912 map.

Uptime history 12 days of history

12 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

257 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

What changed 3

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 29 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

1 Nov a tool description was rewritten house_history

31 Oct a tool description was rewritten house_history

29 Oct a tool description was rewritten house_history

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check AddressLore every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add addresslore --transport http https://addresslore.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://addresslore.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

house

find_house

Look up a Vancouver address, or a resident's surname from 1945 or earlier, in AddressLore's coverage. Returns the matching house's path for house_history, or says plainly that the address isn't covered (never a nearby house in its place), with the covered streets.

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, and where the 1921 and 1931 censuses list households at the address, their people, tenure, rent, rooms, origins and birthplaces (and in 1931 the home's value and a radio) as counts, and in 1921 the people by name as Library and Archives Canada's index gives them, each with its LAC record link. Residents' names through 1945 only; later years show a household and job without names. Anything inferred is marked inferred.

coverage

coverage

The Vancouver streets, blocks and directory years AddressLore covers, with each street's page.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://addresslore.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	85 ms	12 min ago

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AddressLore — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can AddressLore do?

It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: coverage, find_house, house_history. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is AddressLore working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 257 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect AddressLore?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does AddressLore need an API key?

No. AddressLore completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is AddressLore?

It answers our handshake in 257 ms on average, which is faster than 55% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.