Photo Du JourWindsor

Seminole Street Hydro Sub-Station

March 13, 2006
Seeing as this past weekend was very nice, and my camera was crying due to neglect, I headed out with a friend to do some shooting. As we were wandering around shooting the Seminole Industrial area, we heraded over to this Streamlined Moderne beauty. John pointed out that the building is now vacant. Boy is she ever! All the machinery has been stripped out of the inside, and the hydro transformers…
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More Windsor Mid-Century

March 12, 2006
Today’s Photo Du Jour brings us another creation from the Windsor firm of Johnson & McWhinnie. I spent a little time at the Windsor library this past weekend trying to uncover a little information about the firm. Despite searching through microfilm, all that I…
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Keep On Slumpin'!

March 9, 2006
While I covered the amazing rehab of the Ransom Gillis House the other day, as one gets better, one gets worse. The William Livingstone house on Eliot, one block south of Mack continues heading south. This house was moved to it’s current location to avoid demolition…
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Windsor's Biggest Architectural Loss

March 7, 2006
Originally founded in the City of Windsor in 1864 by the Community of Holy Names of Mary & Jesus, with a few nuns from Montreal. St. Mary’s Academy was originally located in downtown Windsor on Ouellette Ave. By the late 1920’s the Sisters had an old school building on very valuable land. The order sold the building and land to the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel Corporation, the land is…
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Hard To Believe...

March 5, 2006
If there is one thing I never thought I would see, it is the renovation/restoartion of the Ransom Gillis House at 205 Alfred. Built in 1876, it was designed by architects Brush & Mason. Here are some recent pictures of the home. August 2002: (What ever happened to the…
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Sincerely yours, Richard W. Reading

March 4, 2006
MAYOR RICHARD W. READING’S WORK MUST GO IN! Under the Reading administration the city’s total bonded indebtedness has been reduced $15,123,406! Under the Reading administration traffic fatalities have been cut 41%! Dick Reading, for his elimination of sit-down strikes, for his far-reaching economy program, for his purge of welfare cheats, for his tireless efforts to secure for Detroit…
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Photo Du JourWindsor

More History To The Landfill

March 3, 2006
The latest victim in the area’s demolition spree comes on the south side of the River this time. On Howard Ave. in Windsor, near Tecumseh Rd. the old Champion Spark Plug factory is coming down. Built in the 1930’s and expanded some time later, the old Saw Tooth…
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Farewell Medusa

March 3, 2006
The latest structure to come a tumblin’ down is the Medusa Cement Silos over near Chene Park. While not anything that any one will shed tears over, another Detroit landmark is demolished. Across the way at dETROITfUNK there are some demolition photos. Many thanks to…