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2720 Grand Marais

December 22, 2010
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…
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Downtown Windsor - 1975

December 20, 2010
Photo © Bob Baillargeon A few more today, from the Bob Baillargeon collection, again many thanks to Bob for sharing these photos with us. Hopefully Bob finds some more scans to share in the new year, these are some great photos. The first shot from 1975 is looking north on…
Lost WindsorOld PhotographsWindsor

Kennedy Collegiate - 1929

December 17, 2010
Happy Friday once again. Today’s photo is dated September 27, 1929, and takes a look at the newly constructed Kennedy Collegiate. Designed by the local architecture firm of Cameron & Ralston, Kennedy opened in 1929 at Tecumseh & McDougall. As is usually the…
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Paramount Apartments

December 15, 2010
One of the buildings I’ve been meaning to cover for a while, and one that’s come in as a suggestion to feature is the Paramount Apartments on Ouellette just south of Gilles. This building has always kind of reminded me of the demolished Madison Lenox in Detroit. Two wings connected by a small little central building. The cornerstone on the northern section reads DB & M, 1924.
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Windsor Salt Mines - 1975

December 13, 2010
Photo © Bob Baillargeon Taken in 1975, and from the Bob Baillargeon collection, many thanks to Bob for sharing photos with us. This photo is taken under the earth inside the Windsor Salt Mine. Anyone out there ever been in the mines? Sounds like it would make a great Doors…
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Hotel Dieu - 1937

December 10, 2010
Happy Friday once again. Today’s photo is a neat old one of the corner of Ouellette and Erie. The date on the back of this one is marked April 21, 1937. But judging from the photo, that is the date of a reprint, the actual photo is probably closer to 20 years…
Windsor

Holy Apostolic Assyrian Church of The East

December 8, 2010
Today we take a quick jog over to Gilles and Lillian, where I noticed some recent changes to the old St. Mary’s Hungarian Orthodox Church… I noticed new lettering on the facade… Looks like another dwindling ethnic congregation is replaced by another. St. Mary’s is now St. Thomas Assyrian Church of the East. I notice also that the orthodox crosses have been removed. I…
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Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ

December 6, 2010
One of Windsor’s more recently designated buildings, the Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ, at 795 McDougall, has been immediately closed, and deemed unsafe. The sign out front, directs members to alternate places of worship. I may have missed any mention of it in the…
Old PhotographsWindsor

Equity Chambers - 1948

December 3, 2010
The photo is dated April 22, 1948 the caption reads: Entrance to second floor offices of Labor Progressive Party which 500 youths wrecked after breaking up speech by Tim Buck. Tim Buck, was the leader of the Labour Progressive Party, the LPP was the name that the…