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Sprawl, 1980 Style…
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OMG, as soon as the first photo loaded up I thought. Gee, that looks like something in Forest Glade! Well, surprise, surprise!
That obvious huh? :)
Don't forget this postcard could have saved someone $300.00!
Gotta love that raised "r" in the middle, Detroit Red Wings style. Wonder how these models look today - I feel a now and then photo op coming on.
I'll cruise by later today after work and check it out... :)
Great for young and agile families, bad for seniors and the disabled with all those stairs on inside.
Mmmmmm...faux-tudor. There's a style that never came back.
I would never move there...ugg.
In 1980 those homes were probably selling in the neighborhood of $50K and $300 wasn't as paltry as it sounds today. I think Riverside Homes was an offshoot of Riverside Construction / RC Pruefer ( Bill Docherty) who probably built more residential units (single family and high rise) in the Windsor area than any other single developer.
Thanks for checking them out, Andrew. At least the tudor style is a proper 2 story (storey) house. Can someone explain the fascination with a raised ranch in the area? You lose a full basement, so you have little storage or hobby space, and end up wearing out the stairs going back and forth. If that's so, then Windsor should have the fittest population in the province!
I like full basements. Is it an issue with the water table, not digging so deep? You don't see raised ranches much in Michigan, some tri-levels from the 70s, but newer homes have full basements, some with even 10 foot ceilings, making the space very usable and not claustrophobic.
So, as a follow up, I drove out last night after work to the location of the "model homes" listed on the back of the card...
Guess what...
None of the houses pictured on the front are located there. Talk about false advertising 28 years later :)
The faux-tudor was nowhere to be seen, and there were a few houses of the raised ranch variety, but they were all reversed floor plans. The garages were all on the right, not the left. In fact I didn't see any on Wilidwood with left side garages.
Curiously enough, the location of the model homes, seems to be the end of that deveolpment... A block or two further east and you get into 1990's era McMansions.