On of my favourite streets in the city is the block long section known today as Randolph Place. Located between Riverside Dr. and University Ave. In the 1920’s this section of Randolph was know as Park Place.
This block contains some nice looking houses. This one despite being chopped up into 4 units, as student rental housing, is still nice looking from the outside.
Some like this one, offer a more unique example of architecture.
In July, 1924 the Border Cities Star ran a three page special on the beautiful homes of Sandwich. A total of 12 houses were featured. Three of the twelve were on this block.
Above is house of Dennis Tehan, proprietor of the Tehan Furniture Company. As well as Dennis, the City Directory also lists the following at the residence:
Edgar, book keeper Tehan Furniture Co.
Frank
Fred, a clerk at the Tehan Furniture Co.
Margret
Mary
Murray, book keeper Tehan Furniture Co.
Nora
William, who ran a service station at 350 Pitt St. W. (The only one it appears who didn’t go into the family business)
The home of Mr. & Mrs. Alphonse Nestman.
The home of Joseph Loikrec, who owned a dry goods store at Wyandotte and Mercer (located today under Fred Thomas Park). Along with Joseph, Harry, Hyman and Olaf, all students are listed at the residence.
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this is one of my favorite streets too, thanks Andrew!
With the Park Place deed, I only need to demo 4 of these nice student rental houses to build a very high rent hotel. I'd be a shoe in for bankrupting any other local hotel operators. I know, cliche, but someone had to say it.
Anyone know what was in that parking lot to the right? It couldn't have been Tehan's Furniture, could it?
I use to live in the apartment building on the corner in the 70's and always liked that street before it started becoming a slum area and parking lots. The car and student housing along with the University aren't doing the neighbourhood and eventually Windsor any favours!
Andrew
If you missed it in the legal section of the paper last Saturday, the city has called for tenders for the rehab of Prado Place. If you do not have a record of what it looks like now, now may be the time. I am quite sure that what it looks like now and what it looks by fall will be two very different animals.
don't worry pinstripes, i pretty sure that whole block of prado place is a designated historic ZONE. i'm sure no real changes can be done...........right?
Pinstripes, Aaron is right, it is Windsor's Heritage Conservation District. The HCD designation protects the streetscape and layout of Prado. Anything done to the road will not alter the way it looks today. The narrow width and circular island will all remain.
The residents were instrumental in getting the streetscape protected.
Hey, that's so crazy! I lived in the Dennis Tehan house. If it's the one I think it is. The one on the right, just off of Riverside. The place was a dump, cut up into a bunch of odd apartments. Some of the features were the working fireplace that we were not allowed to use because it was a fire hazard,the creatures that lived in the walls, and the half ass kitchen addition that was so crooked our plates would literally slide if you put them in the right place on the counter. It did have beautiful windows, though.
Also worth a look is one street over from Randolph . Askin Ave.
some great houses and history there and some landlords trying to demolish perfectly good homes to build oversized student warehousing. very sad!