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Tunnel Bar-B-Q 2015

November 19, 2023
I recently came across this photo that I took in April, 2015 in a folder of older pictures. 2015 doesn’t feel like that long ago, but it was nearly eight years ago already. The long lost Tunnel Bar-B-Q was a local institution for generations, dating back to the the early 1940s, the business closed in September, 2014. The building was demolished in 2015, not long after I took this photo. The…
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Old PhotographsWindsor

2422 Gladstone Avenue

November 12, 2023
This shot above appeared in the Windsor Daily Star, December 31, 1936 in a recap of the new prominent houses built in the last year. The house on the east side of Gladstone was built by Frank N Isbey, of Michigan. Isbey was the head of the Michigan State Fair, and it appears…
Old PhotographsWindsor

Dieppe Park - c 1958

October 22, 2023
A view of the recently constructed Dieppe Park and civic auditorium site cleared for construction of the future Cleary Auditorium. The Cleary Guest House built in 1957 is visible at the east end of the park near the parking lot at the foot of Ouellette, while the rest of the…
Buildings of Windsor

St Stephen's Rectory - Oldcastle

October 15, 2023
I’d made note of this building previously, but this past weekend I finally had a chance to swing by and take a look at the rectory for St. Stephen’s Anglican Church on Howard Avenue in Oldcastle. The house while very average, and looking like many houses of the era, was actually designed by a very famous British born architect by the name of Leslie Kemp. The house was built…
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ACO Heritage Award Nomination

October 15, 2023
I’m please to announce that InternationalMetropolis.com was recently recognized for 20 years of hard work and education about the buildings and architectural heritage of Windsor by the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario (ACO) with a nomination in the ACO Public…
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181-187 California Avenue - Henry T. W. Ellis House

September 17, 2023
This house located on California Avenue, just south of Riverside Drive was built in 1921 for prominent Windsor lawyer Henry T. W. Ellis. Ellis was born in St. Thomas in 1848, and studied law in Toronto, before practicing there, and in Stratford before arriving in Windsor in 1876. He practiced law in Windsor in various partnerships, even spending some time as City Solicitor. In 1884 he became a…
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Windsor

1212 Ypres - Dr Eric Windeler House

September 10, 2023
Located at the north east corner of Parkwood & Ypres is this large brick home was the long time home of Dr. Eric C H Windeler. The house was built in 1929, and designed by architects O’Dell, Trace & Diehl. The same group of architects designed the Royal Windsor…