Lately I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the inner-city. More and more fire damaged houses are staying vacant and boarded up.
I was giving a tour of Windsor yesterday to a reader from Wales, who is in Canada on vacation, and hunting down some family history.
Throughout our drive, I saw more houses that were burned out and boarded up than in years past. Usually in the past, these houses would be quickly demolished, why is it that some of these aren’t? The house in today’s photo is located on Niagara St., and has been in this condition for well over a year…
Anyone know why these rotting burned out hulks are left standing? Shame on the city for allowing this to happen.
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Why don't you guys push to have these boarded up buildings declared "Historically significant" - them I'm sure they'll been torn down ASAP. :-)
-g
Sure, we can say former Prime Minister Alexender MacKenzie lived there or Albert Kahn designed it. Like there's anything "historically significant" about this house that would make it even fall into this category.
This house is STILL there according to Google streetview. "1220 niagara" or so? Maybe I'll drive by sometime to see if it's still really there.
Mike it is still there, we're coming up on three years since the fire... Still in the same condition...
that's a nice brich tree lol. someone should save it.