From the Border Cities Star – February 10, 1927:
- The above reproduction from an architect’s drawing shows the new classroom building which will be built at a cost of $300,000 by Assumption College this year. Construction work on the structure will start on or about March 1, and it is expected that it will be ready to receive students at the September re-opening of the college.
This building will provider accommodations for 800 students, 300 more than the number now in attendance at Assumption. It will face Patricia road, at the eastern side of the college campus, but the rear elevation will be similar to the front in design. The outside walls will be of brick and stone construction, with an ornate limestone tower rising 100 feet above the ground floor level.
The building will be 65 feet wide and 224 feet long, and will contain 24 classrooms, seven science rooms, three large study halls, a students’ reference library, a cafeteria, and offices for the college officials.
The school building eventually became Dillon Hall, and was designed by Albert J. Lothian.
Have a safe long weekend everyone, due to the holiday on Monday there will not be a post Monday, regular posting resumes on Wednesday.
I had a couple classes in there when I was at the University. It’s truly a beautiful building.
Yes, a very handsome building and one of my favourites in the city. It strikes me writing this that one could probably observe the history of architecture in Windsor on the University campus – from Assumption Church and the old college, to the new engineering building.
The recent restoration has made this building look fantastic.
Wasn’t this the building with the “stairs to nowhere”? Lucky for me, I was pre-warned of this first year student trap back in 1993!
The stairs to nowhere went to a tunnel that linked the building to the old St. Denis Centre, I think. The tunnels were all closed before I was a student, and the old St. Denis Centre was turned into the University Computer Centre.
There is a tunnel(sometimes locked) that goes from Dillon Hall to the CAW centre
I remember using the tunnels for short cuts (67 to 72)… are they still there ???