The Crawford House Hotel, was located on the north east corner of Sandwich Street (now Riverside Drive) and Ferry.
It was founded in the 1860’s or 1870’s by Alexander Crawford, the namesake of Crawford Avenue. This photo taken in 1920, must have been towards the end of the hotel’s life. As the 1920’s rolled around new hotels began to feature bathrooms in every room, rendering these old hotels useless.
By 1937, the site where the Crawford House stood was a vacant lot. Today the site is part of Dieppe Park.
Cool picture!! it looks like the man in the picture is next to an old phone booth???
When were phone booth’s invented?
wow just imagine that building was still here!
By looking at this picture…things sure look like nobody was in a hurry and nobody was busy!!
Sometimes i would just love to go back in that time just for 1 week ..just to hear what it would sound like and smell the air in that time!
And have 100 bucks in my pocket, cause that sure would be a hell of alot of money!! LOL!
Back to the future Sandwich Ontario… here i come lol!!
Nice and classy building. They sure do not take that architectural style and detail into consideration these days. too bad.
It is amazing to see how much larger Windsor’s downtown used to be. More buildings, larger footprint. Comparing it to now it really is a night and day difference.
Personally I would rather our parkland now than any large building on it (except for small cafes that are spread about). However one step forward two steps back is hardly progress.
Wow, that’s something. It’s too bad they couldn’t just change the use to offices and simply retrofit it with some new doorways to join some of the rooms. It looks nice enough for an office building. I’d rent an office in there if I needed a place. Instead, we end up with a parking lot and later a park.