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Oventhal Building - 1022 Wyandotte Street East

September 21, 2011
This building on Wyandotte Street West has long been one of my favourites. The large glass block windows on the second floor harken back to the 1930’s. I have no real information on the building or architect. The address comes up as being originally home to the Reycroft department store. I came across a picture of it form the early 1920’s and it’s not the same building, unless it…
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Ada C. Richards - Follow up

September 19, 2011
Back on the 7th, we took a final look at Ada C. Richards School. Last weekend, I swung by to take a look at the aftermath. The structure is completely gone. Just a pile of rubble remains. The sidewalk to the door remains, but lead only to bricks. Houses on side streets…
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Our Lady Of The Lake - Walkerville

September 16, 2011
A postcard showing the interior of Our Lady of the Lake Church, c. 1910. The photo above is undated, but the church was built in 1907, and it was a Pesha postcard, and Mr. Pesha, passed away in a automobile accident in 1912. So the photo was taken sometime in that five year…
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Wyandotte and Louis

September 14, 2011
This big old commercial building had the dreaded orange fences go up the other day. However given the scaffolding out front, I don’t think we’re going to see a demolition here. I sadly suspect a Windsor special “treatment” is planned. Old original windows, and nice stone work in the facade. Go see it while you can, the styrofoam should be slapped up soon. I’m…
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Casino Area Demolition

September 12, 2011
Over the weekend, some more demolitions took place. This house above… …along with this one next door were both torched in a fire in April 2009. Two and a half years later, they came down over this past weekend. Sadly this large Victorian Commercial building…
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Ada C. Richards School

September 7, 2011
Over the weekend, I received a few emails that the old grade school at Ontario just west of Pillette was biting the dust. See here for photos of the demolition on Windsorite.ca. Another part of Windsor’s history again bites the dust. Designed by Albert McPhail, the school was built in 1922 and was opened as the Ontario Street School. It was eventually renamed in honour of long time…
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Dillon Hall

September 2, 2011
From the Border Cities Star – February 10, 1927: The above reproduction from an architect’s drawing shows the new classroom building which will be built at a cost of $300,000 by Assumption College this year. Construction work on the structure will start on or…
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City of Roses

August 31, 2011
Here’s an old postcard from the early 1960’s, that I don’t think was ever posted to the site before. To me the most interesting part of the card is the bottom half, with the view of Wyandotte/Ouellette. The green TD bank in the lower right was designed by…