50 - Year Landmark Down in Seconds
September 9, 2011
From the Detroit Free Press – Saturday, April 30, 1977 p. 18-C
BY DEE SIEGELBAUM
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
In a spectacular example of now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t, St. Mary’s Academy, a Windsor landmark for 50 years, was reduced to a smoking pile of rubble Friday.
The red brick and concrete structure fell to the ground in seconds under the impact of 1,000 pounds of dynamite…