839 Assumption

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• History notwithstanding, I'm a front porch kinda guy - what a shame to lose even that feature in a great old house. If you ever wonder why "neighbourhoods are dieing out, look no further.

• must of been a sale on those windows or something. terrible.... i hate the whole boom of shows on tv showing people how to sell broken down homes for profit. they never care about the character of the house or quality of the work it seems.

• I've been by there a few times - it's basically gutted - nothing left of the original with what seems to be new construction in the footprint of the old house. I hope that at least some of the old features were salvaged and are somewhere else - but I'm not optomistic.

  Very very sad.

  I can't imagine why anyone would choose NEW windows that don't open - it's bad enough moving into an old house with windows that have been painted shut. It doesn't seem safe.

• Seeing stuff like that just brings tears to my eyes. The wood is cedar. It's not rotted. It just needed a fresh coat of paint. It's so meaningless. It tells you something about the kind of classless people that now live in this city. They're now doing that to the brick houses across from the WIllistead on Chilver.

• What's wrong with windsows that don't open? (sarcasm). Trust me, they are the devil's ass.
  I am suprised it wasn't stucco'ed! All of the trim was either covered over or ripped out. DO people not realize that there is a market for this stuff? Why not allow someone else to takeit off for free if they are going to re-use it? I could have used some of that woodwark on my house, especially the gable fan. Do people realize how difficult it is to find this stuff?

  Well, another lost gem.

  Jane, when you say youi have been there and it is gutted. Do you mean the interior or just exterior?

• With a ceiling on real estate values on core area houses like this, owners who don't subscribe to our mindset on this subject will take the path of least resistance and least cost, especially if all they want to do is flip the house for profit. I've known of people who have bought old homes and lovingly restored them them while paying close attention to their architectural and historical merits. It wasn't cheap, but the results were amazing. And when they were done, they had something with value in the final result. You can pump all the money you want into a house on Assumption, and it will still only creep up in value. I'm not saying I like seeing what happened here, just saying I can understand the owner's perspective a bit too. If the owner had done something to keep the front porch in-tact (as someone pointed out already) and put a nice picture window on the first floor and proper opening windows upstairs, I think it would have been a more practical reno, albeit still robbing the character the house was gifted with 100 years ago.

• It's like they're getting ready for a war, and bunkering down.

• ME, I drove by so I didn't thoroughly "inspect " the "project", but it was down to the barest of bones - just some interior stud walls by the looks of it. when I first saw it I thought it was a demo.

  Unfortunately I think that in this particular neighbourhood, the interior would have been pretty well stripped of any original features - a lot of the outside was sitll amazing though.

• Windsor's planning department should be ashamed of itself

  You should send those pictures to be considered for "Eyesore of the Month" on James Howard Kunstler's website (http://kunstler.com/)

• JHK would have a feild day in Windsor!!!