I am always amused by the practice of false facading. Take the Maple Apartments for example. Here’s a building with stone trim an a great yellow/oranage brick facade. As you can see along the side, cheaper brown comon brick was slapped up there.
If there is one thing that Windsor has a large number of, it is great 1920’s era Apartment buildings, and the Maple is no exception.
Wow, some great information on this site, I just love the buildings of the 1920’s, it’s too bad more of our buildings weren’t kept up as well as this one.
Now, one building I was hoping to find information on, and was surprised to see nothing posted about, is the old Windosr Court apartment building on the corner of Ouelette, and Hanna I believe. 1616 Ouelette, I know there is some history on that massive place. I lived in it for a while, and it had the original elavators in it, was really neat to see. Fireplaces, undergroup parking, the old storage rooms, must have really been a nice place when it was build. I had heard that at one time, it was a fancy motel. Does anyone know anything about this building, or have any pictures of it?
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My grandmother lived in this building in the late 70’s / early 80’s. I remember there was a little 1′ x 1′ door in the wall next to every apartment door, apparently for the milk man. There was a little ledge inside, and from the apartment closet you could open the door on the opposite side. Neat!
The intercom system looked 1920s vintage, and didn’t fully work. You could buzz an apartment, which rang two tiny little bells on the metal intercom plate in the apartment, but the little telephone earpiece and microphone work any more, and you couldn’t buzz someone in, you had to walk down two flights of stairs and open the door for them.
There was an airshaft maybe 5×6, from basement to roof, and you could look into it from the bathroom window. There was always broken lamps and junk that people threw down, and I think a full-size door at the bottom leading to an incinerator room, which IIRC was actually operating in late 1984 when I was last there.
I was only a young lad at the time, but have very fond memories of the unusual (to me) look and feel of this building.