Over to the University of Windsor, where there is truly a great collection of Mid-Century Modern Architecture on campus.
Cody Hall was designed by Johnson McWhinnie Architects, in 1961. It currently serves as a dorm building.
Lots of neat little details on this one…
Crescent Lanes first opened on Ottawa Street in 1944 at 1055 Ottawa Street, opposite Lanspeary…
Above is a photo of the home of Mr & Mrs Oswald Janisse, located at…
in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
Photo from Google Streetview A long time reader sent me an email the other week…
An unremarkable end to a part of Windsor's history. The large vacant house at 841…
One for the lost Windsor files, is this house that once belonged to Joseph Reaume…
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I noticed fences around it with a trailer inside that said Jones Group Demolition. I don't understand why a solid concrete 5 story building built using a lot of taxpayer dollars now has to be demolished. Why could it not be repurposed and renovated? Why is this University always demolishing buildings and building new when it could mostly likely rehab existing buildings at a much lower cost to taxpayers. I'm a taxpayer who pays 30% more per litre in gas than someone in Detroit because gas taxes are so much higher, a 13% sales tax (which will most likely go back up to 15% when they get rid of the penny as I'm reading several editorials and articles in today's Windsor Star) while Michigan pays 6% sales tax among many other taxes that are much higher in Windsor than Detroit. And this is how my taxpayer dollars are wasted? I have to express my community outrage at a complete waste of taxpayer funds by this university.
Someone said earlier it's sinking, but I don't see it from the outside and if there are cracks, the rebars inside the concrete will still hold it together.
They are going to demolish this building and then come back for more public money to build new when a lot of taxpayer dollars could have been saved simply renovating this one. How much taxpayer dollars will they spend to tear it down? A million? Why couldn't the Medical Faculty have been moved into this building instead of building a new one at the other end of the campus at great taxpayer expense? I bet you next year they are going to tear down the old engineering building when the engineering department moves into the new one instead of repurposing the old engineering building for something else. Then they are going to ask taxpayers to foot the bill for a new building when another faculty opens up or wants a new building. This is ridiculous!
Welcome to Windsor with their infamous world leading University of Utter Waste of Public Funds and Fiscal Mismanagement.
I attended UW (just after it transmogrified from Assumption) for two years - Sep 65 to May 67, and lived in Cody Hall the entire time. Sad to see it is gone: was the reason that the foundations were insufficient, or was the building full of asbestos?
I lived in Cody Hall for my 2nd and 3rd years of University late 60's, early 70's and my first year in Huron Hall-1968/69. Alas, they have torn down some of my earlier memories. Even one of my residences at the University of Toronto has been demolished. Ah well, c'est dommage, mais c'est la vie.