Many readers will no doubt recognize this building at the north west corner of Ottawa & Kildare in Walkerville. This was as far as I can remember one of the first buildings to get “the treatment”.
On this post from June, an “expert” chimed in his opinion that said:
RANDALL
June 23, 2009 at 2:05 pm (Edit)
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.
Well, I’m not sure how long ago “the treatment” happened, maybe 15 years or so? Certainly not 80.
Here’s how the building looked in 1926 in an ad for the Canadian Bank of Commerce who occupied the ground floor.
It’s sad, it was once a handsome building.
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Classic tudor exterior to deteriorating crap stucco. A tragedy. How expensive would it be to restore it's former exterior after removing the fake cover-up?
When the hell is somebody with half a brain going to run for Mayor of this city? Eddie Francis has had six years to turn things around and all he has done is put Windsor into the ditch. Mike Hurst was given twelve years and all he did was spend the city into oblivion and destroy the beautiful Norwich block in the process.
Wasn't that the "Ding-Ho" restaurant in the '50's?? A hang-out for W.C.I. students?
It isn't the EIFS system that is the flaw in the buildings appearance it is the complete lack of any level of detailing in the application. Had someone taken the time to design and establish proper details applicable to the original style, character and scale of the building something much more appealing could have been achieved. Unfortunately, everybody with a pick up truck and a trowel is a 'stucco' contractor. Not to mention the fact the owner has butchered any consistency on the building facade by adding a mish-mosh of windows, doors and misfit awnings, shame shame!!
The west end of that block had a drugstore back in the early 50's