The Art Gallery of Windsor Needs Your Help...
March 25, 2009
In the public interest of keeping things that make Cities interesting running, the most recent worry turns towards the Art Gallery.
Funding for quality of life? Only with a huge fight…
Funding for a new area on the far end of the city, who’s main tenant is a…
New Frontier Motel
March 25, 2009
An old postcard, this one was postmarked in 1988, but I’m fairly sure it’s much older than that.
Anyone have any memories of this place?
From the back of the card:
NEW FRONTIER MOTEL
Featuring 121 Modern Air-Conditioned Units. T.V., Radio, Telephones, Wall to…
Walkerside Dairy
March 24, 2009
Ad from the Border Cities Star – December 31, 1926.
This version of the Walker Farms were established around 1904, taking over from the earlier farm that was located at Walker & Tecumseh. As you may recall the manager’s house was demolished a few years back.
This farm was located around today’s EC Row and Central area. Part of the farm was severed in 1920 to create the…
Windermere Block - Then and Now
March 23, 2009
Located on the north west corner of Tecumseh and Windermere is the Windermere Block. Built in 1926 by the Walkerville Land and Building Company at a cost of $50,000 (about $615,000 in 2009 dollars). It consists of five stores with apartments above.
Here’s a photo of…
Royal Windsor Apartments
March 20, 2009
From that grand plan, we did get 2/3 of it built, sadly the garage was pulled down some time ago, and only the apartment building survives to this day.
An ad for the garage from 1937.
The apartment building however, is one of the architecturally pleasing buildings in the…
Royal Windsor Hotel
March 19, 2009
To file under the “Unbuilt Windsor” section, two renderings for Royal Windsor Hotel (also designed by Trace, O’Dell & Diehl), one from 1927, and one from 1928. The hotel grew during the year that passed between these two renderings, and it was never built. I’m not sure what killed it off, if it was lack of financing or simply that the project dragged on so long it ran…
Royal Windsor Garage and Apartments
March 18, 2009
From November, 1927 – A huge plan was announced by a company called the Greater Windsor Development Company. The plan included transforming a downtown block into a world class property.
The first phase announced was for the erection of a four story Apartment…
O P Hamlin Then and Now
March 17, 2009
A more recent then and now. The O.P. Hamlin building on McDougall was built in 1960 and designed by local architects Johnson & McWhinnie. The font on the letters is identical to that used on the 1957 Cleary Guest House. In 2008 the building went up for sale after O.P.