From the Border Cities Star, July 9, 1929
It is to be erected at the corner of Highland Aveune and Tecumseh Road where the present Tecumseh Road Bungalow School stands.
Built in 1929, the house at 2177 Victoria Avenue was originally numbered 1545 Victoria, pre…
Crescent Lanes first opened on Ottawa Street in 1944 at 1055 Ottawa Street, opposite Lanspeary…
Above is a photo of the home of Mr & Mrs Oswald Janisse, located at…
in 1917 two Greek brothers Gus & Harry Lukos purchased a one story building on…
Photo from Google Streetview A long time reader sent me an email the other week…
An unremarkable end to a part of Windsor's history. The large vacant house at 841…
View Comments
Left us hanging on this one, didn't cha. Had to go on Google maps/street view to see if there is in fact a school on this corner, or if this is part of "Unbuilt Windsor". I drive by often, but never noticed Highland Ave.
Sorry! Part of today's Catholic Central.
Looks like it would be the current Catholic central , aka Commerce , looks like everything line up except for the roof.
I don't see how that building would have fit the site. At any rate some serious chopping went on between design and construction.
what happened to those nice front windows? central looks like an empty shell compared to this beaut, any history?
Speaking of it, those windows are missing from what I remember.. It's just a plain brick wall.. what happened?
This is definitely the current Catholic central. My grandfather's sister went to Guppy for elementary school in the 1940s. I'm not sure of the timeline after.
Set to be built in the fall of 1929? They must have cheeped out because of the stock market crash?
Nope. The school board's infinite wisdom was to replace the large windows with brick in order to save heating costs. They did the same to my grade school St. Genevieve, in approx. 1986. The windows were mostly original but with proper glazing techniques and storm windows put over the openings they would work jsut as good as double-paned glass.
I don't believe the roof line was ever built like the rendering above.
The Catholic board must have had the front auditorium windows bricked in. The windows were still there when I attended Commerce in the '70's. Don't know about that roof over the auditorium, but always found it strange that while the roof over the corner classrooms leaked badly, the auditorium was fine. Maybe because of that "former" roof?