Another building I’ve always found interesting is this one located on the south side of Wyandotte St. between Caron and Janette.
According to the 1937 Fire Insurance Map it was home to the Northern Electric Co. The 1923 Directory lists the Northern Electric Co. as being on Chatham St. West. So this building was built sometime in that 14 year window.
In recent years, I seem to remember it being home to Junior Achievement, wasn’t it? The last few years I recall seeing interesting displays in the windows. Anyone know what goes on there today?
This building always peaked my interest driving down Window. At one point there were mannequins in the windows…
i thought it was a hair salon or a gay bar
Did not know Nortel had roots in Windsor as well. Wonder what exactly they manufactured there in the 1920s.
One of my favourites, but I hate how they capped those two large bay windows on the right with that white garage door stuff and put in those white trim windows half a year a ago. The black trim windows, especially what was capped, looked 10X better and gave the building so much more class. Even if they painted what they did black like it was, instead of white, it would look a lot better. What they did just cheapened the look, kinda like vinyl siding. Well, I guess at least they didn’t touch the brick.
Andrew your right it once was Junior Achievement!! My friend went there when it was called that!!
Then it was a salon of some sort…
Great choices of buildings this week.
Yup, it was the hair salon that used to do those great window displays with mannequins, props and fabulous hairdos. I think that was after Junior Achievement had moved out.
This place I believe is someone’s house.. a friend of mine knows the person living here and has been inside. From what i hear the inside of this place is all decked out nicely.
I would love to see the inside I always wondered what it looked like. I was going to say I thought someone lived there.
Walked by it late last night and the lights were on with some of the curtains open and I could see lamps on the second floor and walls through the windows, which would indicate a bunch of different rooms. It looks like it’s now a two-story mixed warehouse/garage/business setup on the main floor with apartments on the second floor.
Does BASF own the parking lot behind this building? About 10 years ago, the parking lot along with the one across the street on Caron was fenced in with barbed wire and electronic gate controls. As a side note, why is that BASF plant still downtown anyways? You’d think it would’ve gotten relocated to some industrial park along the way by now.
SBW, at least it is still here in Windsor. Thank God for that!
The building did have a hair salon and it was also a house. however, it had to be sold because of…wait or it…..TAXES! The Taxes were $20,000/yr. Now tell me why again we are having trouble getting business to locate downtown (or in the city for that matter)?
You’re absolutely right ME. The property taxes in downtown are draconian. The commercial mill rate was raised to 0.04731402 and the multi-res was raised to 0.04179205. MPAC needs only to assess the building at just under half a million using half commerical/half multi-residential mill rate and we’re already talking $20,000 a year in property taxes. Using MPAC’s formula of gross rent multipliers on potential incomes of buildings to arrive at their assessed values which has nothing to do with purchase prices or vacancy rates, it wouldn’t surprise me if they assessed this building even higher. That’s a lot of money to take a chance on downtown. There should be some kind of downtown tax rebate to encourage business people to move back downtown. But, then again, your job would drop if you knew what Devonshire Mall is paying in property taxes…