Thanks to Urbanrat for the reminder that this house had become demolition number 1, for 2010.
I looked high and low, but couldn’t come up with a photo of the place. Google streetview saves the day…
The closest thing I had was this photo from 2003. You can see the corner of the house to the left of the Medical Arts Building.
I don’t have much info about the house, I would guess it was built around the 1895-1905 era. The 1923 City Directory lists it as the residence of Philip J. Harvey. Harvey was the president of P. Harvey & Co., Limited. They are listed in the directory as “Butchers, Bakers, Fish Dealers, Grocers. Catering our specialty.”
P. Harvey & Co. Limited were located in the middle unit of the building located to the right of Dufferin St. in the photo above (3rd building right of the building under construction) from Scott Hughes’ postcard from December post.
While I hate to see our built heritage disappear, I’m hoping good news will follow this demolition… The house is wedged between the Medical Arts Building, and Windsor’s newest scourge the ever present “Lodging House”.
Word on the street has it that the house was purchased by the owner of the Medical Arts Building. He purchased the Medical Arts building a few years ago with plans for a conversion into Condo Units. Maybe the demolition of this site, points towards the start of that project getting off the ground. Personally I’d trade that house to see the Medical Arts put back to use.
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thanks for the post Andrew! I too agree with you about tearing this one down.
M.O.M. - i've seen bigger places than that get moved on TV. as i'm sure you know, even here in Windsor they moved the old walkerville post office..was it?.....onto devonshire. it's comperable in size, if ot a bit bigger. doesn't matter if it's around the corner or 20kms away, it can be done if you've got money.
Paul, thanks for the comments, and welcome to the site. The directories are at the main library on Ouellette. On the second floor, they have all the city directories going back to the 1890’s on microfilm. Stop in at the reference desk on the second floor, and someone will show you how to use it if you never have before. The back wall also has some printed copies, but these are mostly "modern" ones, say mid 1950's through today...
If you're looking for anything older than 1937, start with the 1937 directory and look up your address. It will give you the old and new addresses. (The city was renumbered in 1937). Then move back to 1923… There was also a second renumbering around 1920, or so.
As for embedding, it doesn't seem to be able to happen just from the comments, I can only do it from the administration side of things.
Also, about the directories, there are some odds and ends of directories scanned and available at Ancestry.com, a service which library card holders (with online access) can get at for free. Login as usual, select 'databases' and go from there.
Around 2001 till 2008ish it was occupied by a family lawyer Gibson. I've been in that place during that time and it was stunning, needed some work done, but the woodwork was beautiful.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=6b7e3768-64e0-4327-b4b1-52278894ff4b
I just saw they cleaned up the bronze and glass canopy and installed the new south facing windows...curious when they are going to be ramping up interest for this project...I really hoped for a "Broderick Tower" sort of media blitz.
"Redekopp hopes to complete the redevelopment within a year."
It's 2013, and it's still not done.