Back in March, you may recall, I covered the history of the Janisse Brothers Funeral Home, that was orignally the Leo Page house.
Well guess what?
Photo courtesy JS
STUCCO TIME!
Big thanks to all who emailed and told me about the “update” to the building, and big thanks to JS who sent in the photo.
Wowers. I’m sure it will look extra craptabulous once it’s done.
I’ll keep you posted.
Geez! What is wrong with this city? Do we really want to be like every other city out there? What was wrong with the way it looked before? It had a very clean look to it. Now? A turd brown like most disgustig stucco.
Honestly, downtown needs some serious guidelines as to what should be allowed on businesses. They do it in other cities so why not ours? OUTLAW STUCCO!
Say it ain’t so! Bloody hell!
Yikes, this place is going to look “sweet” in 5 years when it’s cracked, faded and falling apart.
nononono…please someone stop the madness!
Already getting a leg up on the upcoming 2010 Lost Windsor calendar contest.
Maybe I should start a Stucco Company, it seems to be the only business that’s booming in Windsor
Give Buildings like this 10 years, They’ll look crappy and Dated by then, Hopefully this stuccoing over old buildings trend will come to an end.
If and when I ever return home to Windsor, I might take a second or so to wonder if I had somehow accidentally gone the wrong direction and crossed the southern border into Tijuana…
Hey John,
I was driving by as you were taking the picture and I thought to myself “I bet this is going to end up on IM!”
Isn’t Anderson Funeral Home down the street stucco? I don’t really mind with this one. It doesn’t gawdy like some of the other stucco jobs I’ve seen and the brick was already painted and the architecture didn’t look all that great before anyway. Now, if they stucco’d the Medical Arts building, I think that would be a real tragedy. At least, they didn’t demo it and build new or move to Tecumseh and leave us with another vacant building like that vacant funeral home on Tecumseh Rd. around the Caboto Club.
well your all jealous EIFS stucco systems add +R18 to the Established R value ( Usually R-12) I T Holds up in all weather, has a life expectancey of 80yrs comes in imasco or Acrylic (740ish colors) only old rock dash is ugly but even the ugliest stucco is safer than any other exterior system with exception to Brick work check with your Local F.D. .. odds are you clowns are siding guts lol siding is being fazed out due to poor fire suppression. a well done concentional stucco application will still keep the walls tanding after a fire, siding?, No.
Siding? Never, I’m a brick man. As long as the brick hasn’t been vandalized, painted or ruined with a bad repointing I’d keep it regardless of the money I’d save from an extra R12. PS please show me a stucco job that last 80 years. I’d really like to see it. Unless you meant 8 years.
Jealous? Of stucco? Brick is much nicer- I have to agree with David on that one. Stucco does NOT last 80 yrs and on top of that is a pain to re-do which is pretty often. A few years back, I helped my dad scrape all of the old stucco off of his house to re-do due to peeling and cracking. Unless you like doing that sort of thing, stucco has no real use unless you are building a cookie-cutter plaza in Las Vegas!
Why do you care? Really? Don’t you have better things to do with your time? I was referred to this web-site to learn more about Windsor……won’t be back.
Why do I care Carol? Because I hate having a city that looks like shit. There are people who do this to buildings ON PURPOSE! That blows my mind. I think it’s funny that people drive by a stuccoed building and think “Hey that looks good. I should do that!”
As long as people keep putting stucco on buildings, and until there is a by-law to prevent it, I’ll keep featuring and mocking those that do it…
I didn’t realize that you were the “taste police” Andrew. My apologies.
Sorry Carol, someone’s gotta do it… Plus I though you wouldn’t be back?
Good work Andrew. There are lots of people that care out there. As far as I’m concerned, if you want a newish building then buy one or build one. People that take older buildings and ruin them architecturally are ignorant and should be stopped. This would not be allowed in old Quebec City or Montreal or can you imagine styro-stucco on any old building in Europe. This is an issue of protecting heritage for the future. Someone like Carol should live in a vinyl sided eyesore the burbs and shop at generic big box sprawl and stop antagonizing those that work for a better city.
I don’t quite get the outrage here. I’m not a big fan of EIFS; it’s too fragile and although it’s supposed to be fire retardant, I have my doubts. And it can look stupid when implausible pseudo-architectural embellishments are stuck on it. Some contractors also have a habit of covering the upper floors while leaving the foundation with the building’s previous dimensions, creating an dumb looking, implausibly massive structure floating on a smaller foundations; there might be a little of that on the left of the photograph, but it’s hard to tell; it’s certainly not glaring. And it’s free of most of the nicknacks that clutter similar jobs. So what’s left is a building that’s too bland to be really ugly or beautiful. But the funeral home was hardly a work of art; its brick finish might have been more substantial than this, but its pseudo-gone-with-the-wind shape was downright ugly; there was barely a hint that the page house ever existed in its original form. So I don’t see much gain or loss here. EIFS covered buildings do get scuffed up, but (unlike vinyl cladding) they can be patched and re-coated for as long as their owners are willing to maintain them. I assume the ones that are valued will end up with a more substantial final finish, possibly cement-board based, after their owners get tired of patching them every time a truck grazes by. So, I suspect that few people will remember or miss the ’60s professional-building look that preceded this makeover; it it will save some fossil fuel. No big deal.
Stucco is awful, period.