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The Paramount Theatre

July 14, 2010
To add to the list of unbuilt project in our city, planned early in 1929, this appeared in the Border Cities Star – January 23, 1929: This is an architect’s sketch of a new theatre planned for the corner of Moy avenue and Ottawa street, Windsor, by Paramount Windsor Theatres, Limited. Designed by Nichols, Sheppard and Masson, archi- tects. Equity Building, the playhouse will…
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Men Who Designed Windsor - Albert McPhail

June 14, 2010
From the Windsor Star, December 13, 1961: ALBERT H. MCPHAIL ARCHITECT, 73, DIES Albert Harold (Bert) McPhail, 73, architect for several of Windsor’s most prominent downtown business and office buildings and a resident of this city for the past 46 years, died Tuesday at Metropolitan General Hospital following an illness of several months. Mr. McPhail was born in Bruce Mines, Ontario, but…
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Vikings' Yacht Club

March 26, 2010
An interesting rendering from the Border Cities Star, May 1, 1929. Above is the architect’s drawing of the Vikings’ Yacht Club, construction of which is expected to start within a month, on Riverside Drive, just east of the Island View Hotel. The drawing shows the $75,000 clubhouse, in the English Style, and also gives a view of the harbor for yachts, motorboats and seaplanes. The…
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Oliver Mowat Perry

March 12, 2010
There are places all around our fair city, that bear the names of people who were once well known prominent citizens. As the years pass, and memories fade, those names start to lose meaning, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who walks past a building or school…