Another oldie, when up in smoke in early September. As is the case these days in this city, the burned out hulk of the four-plex sits derelict on the corner of Wyandotte St. W. at Oak St.
Looking back in some old directories, the houses early occupants are listed as:
1919 – William A. Loop (no occupation given)
1923 – William W. Kerr, of the firm Kane & Kerr, Real Estate
1924 – William W. Kerr, real estate must have failed, because he’s listed as a labourer at the Postum Cereal Company.
Back in the day this was probably quite a nice looking place.
“hulk” that made me chuckle
I wonder if there’s any relation to Carol Kerr I think she’s a real estate agent?
Well it is only a shell… Plus it’s green
He wouldn’t have had far to walk to work – isn’t the cereal factory basically across the street?
I have always liked this house, even tho it was pretty “muddled” you could see that it would have been a nice house at one time – not a fancy house – but a nice solid generous family home. I wonder if there is anything inside worth salvaging?
I wish it would just be torn down – it’s just sad now.
And there was a Postum Cereal Company! We used to be a diversified economy, really! I remember International Playing Card and Pittsburgh Paint, just among comanies my Dad worked for. There was a brewery where a friend of his worked for years. And that’s just stuff I remember from when I was a kid! Bakeries and dairies and . . . oh, don’t let me get started.
I don’t understand why it’s still standing. They already killed any chance of restoration when those numbskulls didn’t put a tarp over the huge holes on the roof. Yet, they can afford to pay a carpenter to board up all those main floor doors and windows. Doesn’t the insurance company pay for it’s demolition? Is the fire department still investigating the cause of fire?
Is the city preventing it’s demolition? Asook had the Seagrave building demolished the day he got a demolition permit so it’s not like there’s any kind of huge waiting list for demoliton companies to do this. Speaking of Asook, did any catch that puff piece the Windsor Star did on him Tuesday on how upstanding a citizen he is to Windsor for building his Champion Paper company and creating jobs by employing 65? people in his import company. Wow, what an asset to Windsor. Or, was that Asshead to Windsor?
I walked by this place in September after dropping my car off for an oil change. Could not have been long after the fire — the “police” tape was up around the place. I stopped and took a look at it, thinking about how long it would be until the place was demolished. Actually, most of the buildings around there looked to be waiting to be demolished. I am also surprised it is still standing.
Speaking of demolition, has that building on Erie been brought down yet?
Demolition? In Windsor? Are you all kidding? That only happens with the heritage buildings in Windsor NOt houses in neighbourhoods! Those have to sit and rot for 2, 3, 4 years plus.
With Windsor’s great idea of investing in neighbourhoods I am sure those savvy speculators will gobble up those lands quickly.
…and I also have some land on Caron Ave that I could sell you. If you don’t mind that it might be under 20 feet of water.
It’s still there…