Maple Apartments
April 19, 2006
I am always amused by the practice of false facading. Take the Maple Apartments for example. Here’s a building with stone trim an a great yellow/oranage brick facade. As you can see along the side, cheaper brown comon brick was slapped up there.
If there is one thing…
Kasle Steel
April 18, 2006
Back at the end of March, on the end of the Canadian Motor Lamp post, there were some comments posted about terrible places to work. Burningrome had posted that the worst place to work in Windsor “had to be Kasle Steel over on Sprucewood by the racetrack –…
Dominion Forge
April 6, 2006
On Seminole across the street from the former Motor Lamp factory is the massive Dominion Forge Complex. Once home to giant stamping presses that fabricated parts for the automotive industry, the complex today is used as a warehouse. Stories have it that the presses were so huge and powerful that they shook the ground and caused so much noise to the surrounding neighborhood, that they had to be…
East Windsor Steam Bath
April 5, 2006
The other day, I was cruising around the Ford casting plant that is due to close, looking for a good spot to get a photo of it. Across the street was this mysterious little place.
There was a closed sign on the door, yet no listing on-line or in the Phone Book for this…
Irony
April 4, 2006
It’s funny how things end up coming full circle. Over in the Ford City district of Windsor we find this:
Today it is the home of the “New Song Church”…
But in 1937 it was the “Temple Hotel & Beverage Room”. From a bar to a church.
The “Temple” name has always had me curious, across the street was Temple Theatre. Around the corner was the Ford…
Alicia Mason Vocational School
April 3, 2006
Located in Windsor’s near west side, on the corner of University and Cameron is this school building. Designed by Windsor’s pre-eminent mid-century architecture firm Johnson & McWhinnie, Alicia Mason Vocational School was built in 1957. It had been closed…