A nice view today of the Windsor Court Apartment Building at 1616 Ouellette Avenue. Designed by Toronto architects Craig & Madill, it opened in 1927.
More on the building can be found here in a post from 2009.
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Strange. I moved out of there in August, bought a house, and oddly enough…..I miss the place. Not the people…..but the building. I loved our apartment! The wood work was amazing, gleaming hardwood floors, enormous windows that caught a breeze like nothing, a caged elevator, and most of all…history!
If I had the millions………
What a shithole it has become.
nothing but dopers living there now
In the old post card photo the building appears to have a mansard roof… or are my eyes playing tricks?
it must be the colourization… the B&W photo in the older post looks correct.
I knew someone who lived there recently who wasn’t a ‘doper’. Maybe every other single resident is though, who knows…
I didn’t mean to imply they all are but!! I good number are
Imagine doing a little bit of landscaping in front of that building, similar to the above. But then someone would have to maintain it.
I lived here in 1990. I took over an apartment that had been occupied by a retired nurse who had lived there since day one. It was absolutely pristine. I loved the architecture but really disliked the ‘tenants! The apartment had a huge steel clad fire door that slid across and closed off the entrance hall at which point I’d turn up my amplifier and let it rip. I never had a noise complaint!
Windsor Court was really something as I remember it as a kid. The elevator was the first one I ever operated by pushing a button without an actual human operator present. Also it was here that I saw my first Murphy bed – a bed that folds down out of the wall. I don’t know if the apartments still have those now or not. There was a great square court in the middle of the building but I can’t remember if it was used for anything.