The house you want is down at the beginning of the street.
The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states
the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" One who makes it his business to ask alms
The beginning of a piece of written material is the first words or sentences of it. the question which was raised at the beginning of this chapter. end