From that grand plan, we did get 2/3 of it built, sadly the garage was pulled down some time ago, and only the apartment building survives to this day.
An ad for the garage from 1937.
The apartment building however, is one of the architecturally pleasing buildings in the city.
I’m happy at least this part survived.
Have a good weekend everyone, see you back on here on Monday.
If I’m not mistaken, I think this was among the last buildings to have the old-fashioned manually closed elevator doors. Can anyone confirm?
Great building, too bad the neighborhood has gone downhill.
Steve (or anyone else), doesn’t that apartment on Ouellette (near Hanna, I think?) have doors like that? I haven’t been there in a while.
I know Met Hospital has that type of elevator in the back of the building.
As of 5 years ago, Casa Del Mara on Ouellette (1338) still had the elevator in question.
Andrew is correct that this building is one of the most architecturally pleasing one’s in the city. But as stated above, too bad teh neighbourhood is in the toilet. I wonder when the city is going to move on their “invest in neighbourhoods” strategy?
… “invest in neighbourhoods”?… all will change downtown when the canal is built.
it’s one place i’ve always thought of living but looked like a fire trap to me. i wish i took more photos downtown when i was younger too. i remember there the parking garage is at park and pelissier, used to be just an empty parking lot when something else was torn down but i forget. i just remember parking there with my parents when it was an open lot used for parking.
JBM, yes and the tooth fairy, easter bunny and santa claus are real. I hope you were being facetious.
Hello, everyone
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about a certain house that my family used to live in. The address is 1409 Granville Crescent. It was built in 1915 by a Mr Granville and for a long while was the only house around that area. My grandfather bought it from New Beginnings back in the 60s, and was told that an alderman used to live there by the name of Patterson, who also owned a drug store that became a Big V?
If anyone can shed some light on this place, or give me any followup info that would be appreciated more than you could ever know.
thank you so much,
Brendan
ME, yes the canal thing is a bad idea but I think for some reason it is still being studied.
You know, this has always been one of my favourite buildings… I always wondered what they actually looked like inside though.
Brendan, Patterson Drugs was a pre-cursor to Big V Drugstores which Shopper’s bought in the late 1990s. Big V was started by a few pharmacists in Windsor a long time ago.
Sorry but I do not have info on the house.
ME,
Was Patterson Drugs the pre cursor to the entire chain of Big V drugstores?
I believe it was one of the players albeit the main one. Big V was started here in Windsor and grew into an enormous chain before it was bought.
Steve and Scooter – about the elevators with gates. yup, the apartment building at Hanna and Ouellette named Windsor Court has and elevator like that. i live there, it’s a rickety peice of poo but i love it all the same lol. i also recently learned that….is it Casa del Mara (?) on Ouellette, with the spanish details outside, it also has one.
Aaron, isn’t the top floor of your apartment building haunted?
from what i’ve been told most of’em are
and that’s nice…i’m on 3.
i actually had a creepy experience in the basement not long after i moved in. i came out of the parking garage in the basement after a midnight shift….say 07:15 or so. as soon as the garage door shut i could hear someone running around in the basement, so, i start getting the heebie jeebies. i havn’t pushed the elevator button yet cause i was just listening to the running, and it was then that i realized the basement is split into all kinds of rooms and there simply isn’t enough hallway down there to do so much damn running! as a matter of fact, this running doesn’t seem to be heading off in any particular direction, just in the hall i’m in! EEK! it’s either a cracked out junkie running on the spot, or a ghost. so i frantically start pushing the elevator button, it is angonizingly slow, i could hear it passing all these little safety mechanisims on each floor (came from the 4th, go figure) just thinkin’ “c’mon….C’MON!!!!” doin the pee dance all by myself. the lift finally arrives with it’s usual BANG! i open the main door, slide open the gate and slam it shut, and the lift takes off again to reletive safety lol. i was totally expecting to see some creepy ghoulish face plaster itself to the little window on the main elevator door looking into the shaft just as the lift cleared the basement LOL! then i speed walked to my apartment
great, i just creeped myself out again lol
Hahaha, a cracked out junkie running on the spot in Windsor Court. Sounds about right for that building.
Who is the Architect for this building?
Scott – John Trace, Augustus O’Dell and Gerald Diehl.
OK, thanks Andrew!
the apartment building at 1616 ouellette has an old fashioned elevator like you mentioned
Reminds me of The Dakota in Manhattan. Can’t wait for the surrounding area to be rejuvinated, apartments here are gonna go like hot cakes!
too bad the whole building apparently still smells like marijuana.. crossed off my list.
My Grandparents lived on the basement floor in this building. When I would visit them I would walk to the movie theater and see the matinee’s. My Grandmother worked at Birks (sp). My Grandfather worked at the bank. This was circa 1960. I was so thrilled to see this photo. The Nordens lived where the front, 1st apartment on the bottom right. Thanks for giving me this wonderful memory.
Laurie Norden. In memory of Margaret and Fred Norden