Glenwood United Church

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• It's magnificent.

  Also could double as a rocket launcher during the cold war.

• It looks like there is a similar church on norfolk, south windsor if i recall. If thats the case, I rememeber that architect being a William Faser. not 100% though..

• Thanks Fausto, I'll check it out. William Fraser, was active at that time, so he could very well be the architect on this one too.

• Edit above - I discovered the Architects were Pennignton & Carter

• Andrew, what of the funky church on norfolk?

• I haven't found anything on my lists, and the rain kept me away on my way home from work. I'll swing by and check it out in the next day or two...

• Amazing! I attended Scouts there in the 70s-80s, it's about 4 blocks from where I grew up! The strange becomes the mundane when you see it every day since childhood - I recall going back to the 'hood with my wife (not from Windsor) and she was blown away by what us south windsorites don't even really see - that weird roof! One thing you can't see is a stretch of barbed wire that goes along the roof about 10 ft off the ground - to prevent climbers I suppose.......I know my friends and I plotted how to toboggan down it on snowy days!
  Also, weird coincidence - I worked in the Cleary guest house for about a month in the summer of 88, summer job with Parks and Rec, I was I think the only student working the graveyard shift (11-7AM). Job was to restore the grass in dieppe park after the freedom fest carnival, so I had to manually move the sprinkler heads around the park at night. I think it was about 2 hours of work in a given 8 hours. Met some freaks down there late at night. The little room for Parks& Rec was between the 2 bathrooms, kinda small and crappy, FYI. Thanks for all the memories and documentary history!

• I happen to know that two undergraduate students also contributed to the exhibition at the AGW. They researched material, conducted an inventory of the city, and found material in the archives. I am surprised to see that they are not mentioned here, as I believe it was them who discovered this church.

• My sister was married in that church. It reminds me also of Paulin Memorial church which I went to as a kid in the 70s. I think I got my taste for mid century from these types of buildings...