A few of the places lost in the DRIC demolition that I’ve been meaning to post about for while now. Someone added it to the “future topics” on the right, when the death fences went up in August. I drove past the site the other week, and can confirm that she’s long gone.
This big old buff brick beauty was built around 1927-28 as part of the speculative boom of South Windsor.
There are small pockets of model homes around various places in South Windsor, that were all erected as the first parts of huge planned communities. With St. Mary’s Academy being built, and the new Ambassador Bridge, combined with the projected industrial growth over in Ojibway, this part of town was supposed to boom. That is until the depression came along. As it stand only a small handful of homes were ever built, and with DRIC coming through, today there’s one less.
Located west of the house above is another DRICtim. The old King Kone, is now also no more.
I have no additional information on the history of this place, but I am going to assume by the construction that it is of a similar vintage, likely an old gas station. Can anyone remember what is was before it was the King Kone?
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I've been amazed at how good some of these buff brick houses from the 20's, like this one and the one down the street at 2125 Grand Marais, look/looked after 80+ years. Hardly discoloured or dulled at all.
She was a beauty! Wasn't she in "Building the bridge"?
I would think KK was a gas station as well. Thanks for the post Andrew!
Aaron, she was in the bridge film.
Prior to king kone, the building was home to La Mona Lisa hair salon for years, before that
I seem to remember it being a Supertest gas station.
As a side note I believe the family who owned 2720 Grand Marais also owned the King Kone property.
It was a pizza place back in the 90's, forget the name. I'm sure the owner of the buildings made off with a tidy sum from the province with no regrets.
If I'm thinking of the correct other buff house at 2125 Grand Marais, I believe it was owned by the Marrentette family circa 1930s etc - as in Marrentette Brothers Construction. It was later owned by the Marcotte Family circa 1970. There were plans to turn it into a funeral home. People in the neighbourhood were against their children being exposed to funeral processions etc and the plans were cancelled. I think the house was moved to a different location on the same lot back in the 1980s??? Can anyone confirm?
2720 Grand Marais, "Then"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiz68/1424555184/
"Can anyone remember what is was before it was the King Kone?"
It was a pizzeria before King Kone, ca. 1990. Prior to that, a hair salon.
I would be willing to bet a nickle that Paula is the winner. I believe she is spot on.
Paul is probably right about 2125 moving at some point. If you look at the late '20s photo here -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiz68/1424592774/
...it is clearly set back from the road quite a bit. Whereas today, it's much closer.