From the Evening Record August 8, 1914:
Above is the proposed location. I have never seen any photos or other references to this pavilion, it doesn’t appear in any records of Pennigton’s work, so I have to believe that it was never built. If I had to guess, I would suspect WWI played a big part in why it wasn’t built.
There is a long history in Windsor of unbuilt buildings.
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Nice! But the foot of Bruce? There was a park there in 1914? I thought this was all a working waterfront at this time. Just to the west CP would have had a warehouse, and I thought the area at the foot of Bruce was all government docks? Was the park eliminated in the 1920's? I know that at least in the 40's there was a silo and some ship loading facilities in this area. Huh...
Thanks Andrew!
I think I see streetcar tracks in the proposed sketch... And having any pavillion or public building at the foot of a street is always a good thing.. which doesn't seem to happen anymore... making use os the vanishing point for something beautiful like this pavillion..
Windsor's affair with stucco runs deep. ^_~
I'm sure it would have been done well though.
i wonder if that sorry excuse for a building that once stood were the bistro in dieppe park is the cheaper version of the proposed pavillion????