Continuing along with the look at old Subdivision, we head out to Riverside today.
From the Border Cities Star – June 14, 1924:
Another ad that ran on June 12, 1924, featured these photos:
Sadly, a drive out there didn’t unveil any houses to me that looked to be from the mid 1920’s. Other than the Chruch, and the school that is long gone, it doesn’t appear that too much was built out there at the time.
Windsor’s history is one of grand plans, and massive deveolpoments that never came to be.
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Hey, easy there on the desire for free parking. You may offend a lot of Windsorites as we all love feeding parking meters and getting parking tickets...
If memory serves me correctly, at the intersection of St. Rose(formerly Intersection Rd.) and Fairview on the southwest corner, the name Intersection Rd is still inscribed on one of the sidewalk slabs.
thanks for the info andrew!
john - i ws looking at that old row that jets off of wyndotte towards riverside drive last night. i think that is so cool and i'll bet most people that live right there just think it's an alley of sorts with no clue as to it's history.