Old PhotographsWindsor

Security Building Then and Now + Post 1000!

August 12, 2009
Before today’s post gets underway, I just noticed that this is post # 1000. 🙂 Today’s post features the Security Building at the north west corner of Pelissier and University in downtown Windosr. Built in 1927, it is seen here in a preliminary rendering from the architects Pennington & Boyde from late 1926. Interesting to note the Kennedy Building that I featured a few weeks…
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Essex County

The Thibert Farm

August 7, 2009
So a rare trip yesterday for this city boy, who took a ride out to the nether reaches of Essex County (and I’m not talking about Tecumseh!) and paid a visit to the Thibert Farm in Comber. Farmer Richard Thibert, is a weekly participant in the Downtown Windsor…
Windsor

872 Chatham Street East

August 5, 2009
Darren from Photo404, pointed out this house to me, that I had never noticed before. Tucked away on Chatham Street, it stands abandoned and hidden behind an overgrown forest. One of the most odd features is the original Victorian porch, with the half cut off posts. Odd. Not much background on this one, it’s listed in the 1923-24 city Directory as being the home of Samuel Katzman. The book…
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Old Newspaper StoriesWindsor

Mayfair School

August 3, 2009
From The Border Cities Star, October 1, 1927: Here is an architect’s sketch by Cameron & Ralston, of what the new Mayfair school in school section No. 5 will look like when it is completed in a month’s time. Construction of the new school building is now…