Stucco Time – Guess the Victim

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• From Art Deco to Bob Stucco!

• Wow. Since early 1952, three of my family were buried from Andersons.
  A buddy worked there and was proud of the structure and his profession.
  And... wasn't it a three-storey building?

• Umm, I'm not a fan of stucco on brick or limestone, but I thought it was a stucco facade prior to the renovations. If it was stucco, it has to be redone after so many years. You either have to take off the old stucco or secure to old facade with some base like styrofoam and put a new coat on. Did anyone actually see them cover up the green tile? Are you 100% positive they are not going to put the historic elements back up? Did anyone bother to ask anyone inside first? Stucco doesn't last an eternity like limestone or marble. A lot of slander and very little facts presented.

• To even call it stucco is wrong. It's styrofoam and spackle and some kind of spray stuff. And then they get the yobs who are doing it to cut up different geometric shapes and they plop it onto the surface as if it's some kind of architectural detail. Check out the boxes they are putting at the base of the supports that hold up the car port portion of the building.

  When is the city ever going to wise up and stop this crap from happening? It is infuriating. I cannot say that I am aware of any other city that does this.

  I think there is one company that must be responsible for convincing building owners to do this. It's misguided and ugly. It reminds of the 90s when shop owners were convinced by some lame assed awning company to replace their old, "unsightly" neon signs in favour of those vinyl lettered, illuminated awnings. You know, replace a neon sign that is still functioning or maybe needs a little face lift and that has been around for 50 years, with a nice, new vinyl lettered awning - that may last about 5 years before the letters start to curl up and shrink and peel off... Does anybody remember the first Pat and Hanks Fish and Chips sign with the fish wearing a top hat? In neon... so amazing....

• Can anyone offer a history of ownership for this business? I am interested in the legacy of local, family owned facilities and their heritage. I know this facility has been in Windsor for years.Is it still family owned ?

• Don't hold back Chris! I agree with you 100%. Old style stucco is actually quite elegant and durable. I manage a historically designated stucco clad home built out of ceramic block and stucco which has requiored very minimal exterior maintenance for the past 50 years! As to the new "stucco" - give it a good boot and see what happens!

• in the past twenty five years their has been a buyout of local funeral homes, large groups have taken over many family buisness. I am not sure whitch local ones are still localy owned.

• Windsor Chapel Funeral Home and Families First are, to the best of my knowledge, two of the last independently/family owned funeral parlours.

• i had a look at it yesterday the guy who was the boss of the stucco people was talking to the manager out front on the sidewalk part of it on the parking lot side is finished it is a dark gray/green with black trim it actually looks half as decent

• From what I saw, and I could be way off.. But the side of the building already had the 2 tone stucco job... light brown base with darker accents... I would imagine that (and I could be wrong) that they intend to carry this scheme into the front of the building. So I'm not convinced that they are simply maintaining the stucco and intend to return it to the existing style and colour scheme. From what I see it looks like the owners see all the other homes around the area (like the families first stucco palaces) and are trying to "modernize" their facade to "keep up with the joneses". I truly hope this is not the case, and as another writer wrote they are simply maintaining the existing stucco with a new coat.