Today’s photo is marked “St. Paul’s Mission, Windsor” and dated January 21, 1925.
I can’t find much on this church. There is no listing in the 1924 directory for a St. Paul’s.
Locally there is a Catholic St. Paul’s in LaSalle, on Pillette a St. Paul’s United and in Essex a St. Paul’s Anglican.
I suspect that the Pillette location is most likely. As I know the church began life as a mission of All Saints. However their website indicates it wasn’t known as St. Paul’s until 1929.
Anyone out there a member of any of these churches?
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I thought at first it looked like the church on the corner of Foster and Byng, but the photos are similar but don’t quite match up.
Perhaps it was the forerunner to the Pillete location, the brick chimney at the rear looks a little out of place, it could be afar from Aida C Richards School on Arthur.
I think the sign behind the mission says something about a diamond watch, could be the side of a jewelry store,or just a billboard
In the mid-1950s I used to drive a Reverend Frank Watts to a similar-looking church in Remington Park (he didn’t have a car or a driver’s license and lived downtown on Pelissier St.) — can’t recall the name of the mission/church.
Anything in a more recent city directory?
Don’t know if there is any connection to this photo, but the following is an excerpt from page 2 of the July 18, 1925 edition of the Border Cities Star:
“An event which promises to be an exceptionally interesting one is the garden party which is being given by the ladies’ of St. Paul’s church, corner of Victoria avenue and Tecumseh road, mission of All Saints’ Church, on July 29…”
Ken
Were you thinking of the Remington Park Tabernacle, corner of Remington Ave and Charles Street? It is similar but I don’t think it could be the same place unless it has sunk into the ground some since 1925.
I agree. I also think it looks like the old “(Remington) Booster Club” building, now Remington Park Community Centre on Lillian.
Look at the foundation. 4 feet above ground,brick with full length windows.Nothing like it in Remington Park.In fact the foundation looks more substantial than the building on top of it.
Reminds me very much of the old church on the corner of Howard and Irvine. I’ll have to drive by to compare. I agree with Joe that the substantial foundation height is very unusual.
Howard and Irvine looks very similar.
Checked that Howard & Irvine church out on Google earth street view and now I’m doubting myself on that. It’s that foundation. I wonder if that was just a temporary church and that a brick-to-roof bldg was erected on the same foundation. There is a St. Paul’s on Pilette but its footprint bears nothing in common. A very interesting mystery!
This IS a mystery! I first suspected the Howard and Irving church as well.
My three guesses are:
Unlikely because of the foundation….but nothing says the building wasn’t put on a more modern foundation later in life….is a building next to the former St. Christopher, on Woodward and Seymoure. This little place seems to have been the original church before the congregation expanded. However back when this photo was taken, I wouldn’t think there would be the same “density” out there. I doubt it’s this one.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=churches&aq=&sll=42.284151,-83.003705&sspn=0.005897,0.009624&ie=UTF8&t=h&rq=1&ev=zi&radius=0.3&split=1&hq=churches&hnear=&ll=42.276547,-82.982783&spn=0,0.038495&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.2764,-82.982694&panoid=b19QtJoBfAMtUNoVXb3QAw&cbp=12,278.74,,1,-2.58
My second guess is probably the original building to St. Barnabas, on Tecumseh rd.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=churches&aq=&sll=42.308006,-83.033895&sspn=0.023708,0.038495&ie=UTF8&t=h&rq=1&ev=p&radius=1.18&split=1&hq=churches&hnear=&ll=42.300548,-83.001108&spn=0,0.038495&z=15&layer=c&cbll=42.300589,-83.001143&panoid=C41V56FEQBc64BAOqNZajg&cbp=12,45.3,,0,-1.02
I had another in mind, but can’t think of it right now.
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=42.246662,-83.061911&spn=0.00116,0.002068&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=42.246699,-83.062055&panoid=a3rWsMuill1cRYJ6ndUvBw&cbp=12,65.69,,0,10.34
This is the back of St Paul’s in Lasalle. Has the same roof pitch, stubby chimney and hich foundation as the picture.
I wondered about the Remington Park one as well, but I think the St. Barnabus is a major contender. The proportions seem to be a better fit and if a different exterior had been on the outside it would look different as it doesn’t draw the eye to the odd, high foundation.
I also wondered about the “mission” part. To me it seems possible that this plain little building may have been a sort of outreach programme for a larger church/congregation (probably named St. Paul’s), maybe another church in the diocese, perhaps not even in Windsor. Perhaps, as the congregation grew, they picked a new name for themselves, giving themselves a new identity.
The building does look SO familiar.
I think Joe is right!
The proportions on this one are really like the old photo. If you look at it from the Malden Rd view it appears that while the chimneys are different they still are in much the same place. The foundation is different but that’s cosmetic – it’s still unusually high.
Good eye Joe.
I HAVE been in this church – so it does look familiar.
i grew up on the 800 block of raymo rd and remember this place quite well this would be back in 1956 i remember my cousin and myself went into the place one day at the urging of a woman standing on the porch it scared the hell out of me
Is this the place you’re talking about gary?
Did they elimiate the basement?
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Raymo+Road,+Windsor,+Essex+County,+Ontario&aq=0&sll=42.32497,-82.976184&sspn=0.011787,0.019248&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Raymo+Rd,+Windsor,+Essex+County,+Ontario&ll=42.326078,-82.976925&spn=0,0.019248&z=16&layer=c&cbll=42.325996,-82.976842&panoid=oMM1d-_f-bAFwyu07wb37Q&cbp=12,108.11,,0,-5.13
The white frame building at 825 Raymo Rd was the original Our Lady of Guadalope Church, in the early sixties there was no basement. The Church was replaced with present brick building in the eighties. The new church is on Wyandote St.
No Aron this is the original lady of gaudalupe church before the big one on the corner of raymo and wyandotte was built the original photo i posted my comment on is on the 8oo block of pillette rd on the east side of the street almost directly across the street from what i think is Beauls upholstering
Aaron i think today the building on Pillette rd has been converted to a residence thats privately owned i might be wrong there’s alot of vegetation in the fron’t a fur tree and bushs i think
The Sign in the background is for McCreery’s Jewelers which was original jewelery store at the Pepper’s location at park and Oullette before Birks was there
http://www.windsorstar.com/Gallery+From+Vault/4371114/story.html
According to the 1923 Vernon’s Directory McCreery was south of London street (university ) at that time, probably the same location although the address numbering has changed. So the sign in the background of this picture is not on the side of the a store but just a billboard
Looks like Vicki above had it right all along…
This building on Ouellette (actually fronting Pelissier) is now home to J.P. Tompson architects & engineers:
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It was built as St. Paul’s in 1948, but I found an article dealing with the opening of the building above, where it references how the new building is replacing the old temporary mission building.
That article from October 15, 1949 reads as follows:
“The new church building will be used for all church services and activities in the future. The former building that has been in use since 1925 has been sold and will be moved to Remington Park where it will be used for an Anglican Church.”
So it looks like everyone who called out Remington Park as the location for this building was also right.
Another mystery solved!
That is so interesting!
Two mysteries solved!
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This definetely looks like St. Paul’s R.C. Church in La Salle.
Black and white photo on the top of the page, definetely looks like St. Paul’s R.C. Church in La Salle.