Another lost Windsor landmark. The vacant house at Walker & Grand Marais.
Is that underpass ever going to get built? The good old City is sure taking their time with that project.
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Hi Andrew…. how old is this house? looks scary! but once was nice.
it is sad but what can you do when nobody renovates these old places.
good photo!
The longer they wait the happier I’ll be, because once they get started it’ll probably take years to finish. Even though they say “18 months” (or whatever). Once the shovel goes in the ground, any sense of time or urgency ceases to exist when it comes to city road construction. Walker is of course an important north/south artery and we can’t afford to have the city shut it down until the second coming.
Andrew’s the expert on this, but I was with him on this shoot a couple years ago when we photographed this house. From what I saw, it struck me as a 1920s frame home with a few layers on the original clapboard (including the dread insulbrick).
If it’s an old farmhouse, I would guess as old as 1905.
I remember that house, this is my old neighbourhood, past it many times to go to Memorial Park, “Toenail Beach”., when it was a thru road to the park. Behind it was a house all made out of cardboard my dad used to tell us, later covered over with wood.
Great to see this place, I remember it as a family home and then of course, as the way of all old houses,, made into a duplex.