Today’s picture comes to us from the John Stefani collection. A view from about 1908, looking west along Wyandotte Street from the intersection with Devonshire.
The building on the right is the Strathcona Building, designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1907.
The Strathcona Building is still there, but the streetcar is long gone. Unlike most of Windsor’s older urban arterial roads, there is still a touch of tree cover here. Not like there was a century ago, but a little bit all the same.
Last day of February, let’s get on with spring!
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I can't really make out what is on the south west corner. Is it the original Walter Kelly Funeral Home?
On the south side was the Dr. Chas. Hoare residence, built 1907, designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls of Detroit.
The 1937 fire map shows it as the only building on the west half of that side of the road, with a garage to the east and a house on the corner at Kildare.
When I had to have one (then the city came around the next year and took another one) of my Horse chestnut trees taken down I asked to have another one in planted in it's place.
I was informed the city only plants a few varieties of trees and that they don't plant the Horse Chestnut any more. The city stated that over time they rot down the middle and could become a hazard. When I brought out proof that ALL old trees will rot down the center eventually I was still rebuffed.
When I showed them that the Bradford Pear trees they were planting only last approx. 25 years (due to large limbs breaking off in storms)I was still rebuffed.
Now we have a city full of potential damaging trees that last 25 years or we can have those ugly Locust trees that make a mess and look horrible.
Tom, I would agree with your theory, but i think there's more to it. A simple bump-out every so often is possible in a widened street. And, like Dave states, is it having to clean up after fallen limbs, or, highlighting hazards of fallen limbs, really? There's an agenda of some sort to preclude tree-lined streets in Windsor and I don't know why. I see columnar trees and dwarf trees and tres of the 25ft varitey. Why not Oaks or Elms and other large trees..Is it the wires? -that can be overcome. ..
There is a better picture in the Shorpy collection. I used to live directly beside where the streetcar is at 1854 Wyandotte St E