Holy Redeemer - Académie Ste. Cécile
February 11, 2008
Located on Cousineau Road in South Windsor, is the city’s youngest designated heritage property.
Built in 1957 as Holy Redeemer College, it was built for the Redemptionist Fathers as a teaching seminary that was affiliated with Assumption University, which later…
Algonquin Club
February 8, 2008
So the other day in the post about the Norton-Palmer Hotel, the subject of the Algonquin Club came up. I did a little checking, and I tracked down a little infromation to post here from the current members of the club executive.
Founded in 1934, the Algonquin Club is still…
Cleary Auditorium
February 7, 2008
A few older postcard shots of the Cleary Auditorium. Designed in 1957 by Johnson and McWhinnie, the buidling that was built was a much scaled down version of what the architects had imagined.
Even back then the Mayor and Council meddled in the plans, and the auditorium was shrunken as was the convention space. Plans for a smaller second theatre in the basment were also scrapped. The basement…
Foundry Stripping
February 6, 2008
A few photos today from IM readers…
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This set is courtesy Darren B.
He sends along a photo of the massive cranes at the Foundry, slowly taking her apart.
This before shot shows the Foundry…
End Of An Era
February 5, 2008
From the Windsor Star, December, 31, 1974.
The end of an era
The Norton-Palmer is no more
By PAUL VASEY
Thirty-four years ago The Border Cities Star devoted a couple of inside pages to lavish praise of an addition to the Norton-Palmer Hotel.
Now a yellow-brown clipping…
First Baptist Church
February 4, 2008
February kicks of Black Heritage month across Canada and the United States, and today I thought we would take a look at one of the oldest church parishes in the City of Windsor.
This postcard view from about 1918 shows the First Baptist Church incorrectly labeled as being on Windsor Avenue.
The church is located at 710 Mercer Ave. in downtown Windsor. It was built in 1915, to replace an earlier…
Out With The Old... In With The New...
January 30, 2008
All of today’s photos come from reader submissions…
The first set is from Luc, who sent along a few progress photos of the new Walker Road underpass.
Work is progressing nicely. Maybe someone who understands the project (I’m looking at our local…
Paramount Cafeteria
January 29, 2008
Scouring through my old postcards, I came across this old rarely seen view of the Paramount Cafeteria.
The back denotes the cafeteria to be in the basement of the Paramount Building.
The room still exists, and unbelievely has really only seen minor renovations over the…