Photo Du JourWindsor

Frank H. Joyce House

January 4, 2007
This grand structure at 3975 Riverside Dr. East in Windsor is the reason for the latest battle in heritage preservation on the Windsor side of the river. The home which has served as the convent of the Sisters of Saint Joseph since 1953 was put up for sale. The building, with ties to the early days of the automotive industry sits on a massive lot fronting Riverside Dr and the Detroit River. As…
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Impending Demolition

January 3, 2007
Over on Windsor’s west side, there is an impending demolition brewing. On Sunset Avenue there is a small grouping of five houses. A small remnant of of how the area once looked before the University of Windsor Moved in. Many other Universities seem to have a habit of…
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2006 - The Year In Review

January 2, 2007
As I have been doing for the last several years (the 2005 Review is here, 2004, 2003), I try to recap the buildings that have been lost over the past year, and present them as a summary. This house in Windsor went up in flames to an arsonist early in the Summer of 2006. Located on Chappus & Reed Streets in Windsor’s rapidly vanishing Brighton Beach neighborhood, the house isn’t…
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Happy New Year!

January 1, 2007
01-01-07 Wow, another year gone… Thanks to all of you, my regular readers, I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday season, and all the best for the upcoming year. I know that the posts have been spotty over the holidays, but we’ll be getting back to normal…
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New Bus Terminal - Part II

December 29, 2006
Work continues at the new downtown Bus Terminal. It’s pretty amazing to see how quickly this turd has gone up. Compare the photo above, with this taken one October 31st. Less than two months ago nothing was visible above grade, and today the entire cinderblock and…
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488 Janette

December 28, 2006
For today’s photo, we head over to 488 Janette Ave. in the downtown core area. This flop house caught fire about a month ago, and is still stitting in its burned out state. Neighbours complained that it was a crack house, and it apparently was well known to police. I doubt many tears were shed when it went up in flames. Hopefully it gets removed soon, I for one couldn’t imagine…
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Merry Christmas

December 23, 2006
First off, thanks a lot to the asshole or assholes who thought that walking down my street last night and kicking every drivers side mirror on every car parked on the street was a good idea. It certainly was a treat to awake to my mirror broken and dangling from the side of…
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Replanning Downtown Detroit - Part 8 of 8

December 23, 2006
DOWNTOWN RING ROAD Section “G” on the map: William J. Johnson, Landscape Architect, of Eichstedt-Johnson David B. Spaulding Ulrich Weil of Weil-Cohan Associates Scheme of ring road in realtion to surrounding area. Study of ring road development. In the early…