From that grand plan, we did get 2/3 of it built, sadly the garage was pulled down some time ago, and only the apartment building survives to this day.
An ad for the garage from 1937.
The apartment building however, is one of the architecturally pleasing buildings in the city.
I’m happy at least this part survived.
Have a good weekend everyone, see you back on here on Monday.
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You know, this has always been one of my favourite buildings... I always wondered what they actually looked like inside though.
Brendan, Patterson Drugs was a pre-cursor to Big V Drugstores which Shopper's bought in the late 1990s. Big V was started by a few pharmacists in Windsor a long time ago.
Sorry but I do not have info on the house.
ME,
Was Patterson Drugs the pre cursor to the entire chain of Big V drugstores?
I believe it was one of the players albeit the main one. Big V was started here in Windsor and grew into an enormous chain before it was bought.
Steve and Scooter - about the elevators with gates. yup, the apartment building at Hanna and Ouellette named Windsor Court has and elevator like that. i live there, it's a rickety peice of poo but i love it all the same lol. i also recently learned that....is it Casa del Mara (?) on Ouellette, with the spanish details outside, it also has one.
Aaron, isn't the top floor of your apartment building haunted? :)
from what i've been told most of'em are :) and that's nice...i'm on 3.
i actually had a creepy experience in the basement not long after i moved in. i came out of the parking garage in the basement after a midnight shift....say 07:15 or so. as soon as the garage door shut i could hear someone running around in the basement, so, i start getting the heebie jeebies. i havn't pushed the elevator button yet cause i was just listening to the running, and it was then that i realized the basement is split into all kinds of rooms and there simply isn't enough hallway down there to do so much damn running! as a matter of fact, this running doesn't seem to be heading off in any particular direction, just in the hall i'm in! EEK! it's either a cracked out junkie running on the spot, or a ghost. so i frantically start pushing the elevator button, it is angonizingly slow, i could hear it passing all these little safety mechanisims on each floor (came from the 4th, go figure) just thinkin' "c'mon....C'MON!!!!" doin the pee dance all by myself. the lift finally arrives with it's usual BANG! i open the main door, slide open the gate and slam it shut, and the lift takes off again to reletive safety lol. i was totally expecting to see some creepy ghoulish face plaster itself to the little window on the main elevator door looking into the shaft just as the lift cleared the basement LOL! then i speed walked to my apartment :)
great, i just creeped myself out again lol
Hahaha, a cracked out junkie running on the spot in Windsor Court. Sounds about right for that building.
Who is the Architect for this building?
Scott - John Trace, Augustus O'Dell and Gerald Diehl.