Today’s entry was sent in by regular reader Urbanrat. His email to me read as follows:
I know how much you love stucco! I found this stucco palace at 809 Bruce. The house is vacant, it must be the place the stucco boys of Windsor apprenticed!
The last photograph is of the rear of the building, look to the unfinished stucco work on the centre wall, they didn’t even use a square or a plumb line to match the wall at the left.
Also notice the infilled in ground pool.
It has to be nominated for the worst attempt at stuccoing in Windsor!
Yikes! This one is pretty bad… Thanks to Urbanrat for sharing this mess with the rest of us!
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It's kinda sad actually, ugly or not someone put money into this house and now it's sitting unfinished and vacant. I wonder if they just ran out of money.
This is the worst thing I've ever seen.....no wonder they didn't finish it...
maybe it didn't get finished because everyone on the crew turned out to be blind and had no thumbs.
maybe there's hope if we all go throw rocks at it. i don't forsee any trouble knocking that stucco off lol
20+ years ago when I lived for a short time in this neighbourhood, this house always caught my eye. It was overgrown and derelict but it was still very impressive. Obviously, at one time it was magnificient. It was exciting to see someone had taken an interest in it and very dissappointing to see what actually happened. I guess not everyone shares the same vision.
Very bizarre indeed. It looks Disney-esque in their attempt at stucco.
Is this truly what our city has become? Burned-out houses and stucco on buildings that shouldn't have stucco? Interesting that other cities have guidelines (in certain areas) for houses or commercial buildings but Windsor doesn't have one!
It's sad, my babysitter and her family lived in this house between 1980 and approx. 1999, the exterior was marvelous before, yet was falling apart in many places. Whoever the new owners are, they really wrecked this place.
I kinda like it!