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Royal Windsor Hotel

March 19, 2009
To file under the “Unbuilt Windsor” section, two renderings for Royal Windsor Hotel (also designed by Trace, O’Dell & Diehl), one from 1927, and one from 1928. The hotel grew during the year that passed between these two renderings, and it was never built. I’m not sure what killed it off, if it was lack of financing or simply that the project dragged on so long it ran…
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Royal Windsor Garage and Apartments

March 18, 2009
From November, 1927 – A huge plan was announced by a company called the Greater Windsor Development Company. The plan included transforming a downtown block into a world class property. The first phase announced was for the erection of a four story Apartment…
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O P Hamlin Then and Now

March 17, 2009
A more recent then and now. The O.P. Hamlin building on McDougall was built in 1960 and designed by local architects Johnson & McWhinnie. The font on the letters is identical to that used on the 1957 Cleary Guest House. In 2008 the building went up for sale after O.P.
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Park Place

March 16, 2009
On of my favourite streets in the city is the block long section known today as Randolph Place. Located between Riverside Dr. and University Ave. In the 1920’s this section of Randolph was know as Park Place. This block contains some nice looking houses. This one despite being chopped up into 4 units, as student rental housing, is still nice looking from the outside. Some like this one…
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Duff-Baby House

March 13, 2009
The oldest house in the city is the Duff-Baby House, built at the corner of Mill and Russell around 1790. According to Fred Neal’s book the Township of Sandwich published in 1909 “It was built by the Hon. James Baby, who was born in Detroit in 1762. He as a…
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Community Rally to Save the A-Channel

March 12, 2009
I was given the following to pass along. This may interest some IM readers. Some of you might want to attend… =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=–=-=-=-=-=-= From: masse.b@parl.gc.ca To: masse.b@parl.gc.ca Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:50…
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Hiram Walker & Sons Metal Products

March 11, 2009
Ad from the Border Cities Star – December 31, 1926. Funny how diversified our industries used to be. Somewhere along the line some genius decided putting all your eggs in one basket was a better idea. This plant was located on Kildare Road, immediately south of…
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Parent Place

March 10, 2009
Years ago, while out shooting photos with John Stefani, we stumbled across a old cinder block building in an alley. It always seemed strange that the building was located in an alley and not on a road, but a recent discovery of an ad for the company, revealed that the alley…