From December 1964, an ad above for the Seaway Towers on Riverside Drive in the town of Riverside. At 12 stories, it was one of the first high rise apartments built along the waterfront in Riverside. I love the architect’s rendering with the big old car cruising up to it.
The building is situated on the site on an angle to maximize the amount of units with waterfront views.
Amazingly enough, the building appears almost the same as it did in the rendering, although I suspect interior renovations have stripped it of any of its mid-century charm. Anyone out there know anyone in the building? Is the pool still in operation?
I was in here last weekend; save for a few features of the lobby nothing period seems to have remained. Didn’t see anything to do with a pool.
I lived in the St. Clair Tower just down the street.. The same floor plan.
The pool is in the little building behind the tower. It’s still operational at St. Clair Tower and I believe this one too.. However I only used it once… That was enough!!
This is the building that had the brick veneer replaced as it was falling off . This was about 20 to 25 years ago if memory serves.
This is a very cool building. The lobby was very 60’s chic with the use of mosaic on the pillar just outside. When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s and 70’s my grand parents lived here. They were on the top floor and always had handy binoculars for us kids to look out on to the Detroit river.
Did this building have issues with the foundation and water? I recall some of the apartments, maybe further east, had problems when they were building them, with the river so close.
Gotta love the wall-to-wall carpeting. Used to be that carpeting was luxury and wood floors were for poor people who could not afford carpeting. How times change.
i lived on the 9th floor of this building from 1987 to almost half of 1999 when i was there the pool wasn”t being used and the manager used to store spare fridges and stoves in the building that housed the pool Boardwalk has since taken it over and it probably reopened the pool
I’ve driven by that beautiful building many times and wondered why it wasn’t built downtown where it would have made a huge impact on the city’s skyline. Imagine what Ouellette Avenue would look like today if the Seaway towers and Solidarity Place occupied a strategic intersection like University and Ouellette or Wyandotte and Ouellette.
I lived here for 2 years back in 1990 we had what they called a studio apartment very small bedroom,at this time the pool wasn’t in use they used the inside of the poolhouse for appliance storage
My grandfather lived there when the bricks were falling off the side. He saw one pass his window and decided he wanted to move and moved up to better things at Victoria Park Place.