Today’s postcard dates to about 1910 and shows the Walkerville Methodist Church. This church building was the forerunner to the Lincoln Road united church building that is there today. It was built on Lincoln Road because Hiram Walker didn’t feel the need for a second church in Walkerville, as his current church was usually only half full. The lots for this building were purchased on the west side of Lincoln Road, which at that time was not yet part of the town of Walkerville.
what a great photos Andrew!! a handsome looking corner if i do say so myself!
certainly makes one wonder why we’ve allowed such horrible developments to replace these old buildings!
also… loving the street lamp!
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=lincoln+and+wyandotte+windsor&ll=42.321176,-83.015238&spn=0.005204,0.011319&sll=42.321655,-83.015879&layer=c&cbp=13,203.79,,0,6.4&cbll=42.321621,-83.015859&gl=ca&hnear=Wyandotte+St+E+%26+Lincoln+Rd,+Windsor,+Essex+County,+Ontario+N8Y+1C8&t=h&z=17&panoid=67gcKPXLl2aLRxdnH9etRQ
Does anyone have a location for this church as its successor is not on a corner?
Is there any part of this building still standing as part of the United Church building?
Answering my own question, this article indicates the church was at the southwest corner of Wyandotte and Lincoln. Property for the current church was purchased in 1914.
http://krassoc.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/lincoln-road-methodist-church-walkerville-essex-county/
Although some may disagree, I submit that Lincoln Road United was a more pleasing and unified building, architecturally, than the pictured church.
Windsor is (or was) blessed with so many lovely churches (some with better insides than outsides) such as St Clair, St Mary’s Walkerville, Gracanika Serbian Orthodox, Holy Name, All Saints and the interior of Emmanuel United and Central United. One must include Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue as well. I am sure there are many more as well with which I was not acquainted before we moved West in 1969.
No, not exactly a unified design, or what one might call beautiful, but rather eccentric and full of character. It almost looks like something from a Tim Burton movie. Any idea who the architect may have been?
Back then, the Methodists considered alcohol one of the causes of social ills and favoured Temperance. That may explain the cold attitude of Hiram Walker towards the new church in his town.