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Proposed Church Of Christ

August 17, 2009
Some recent comments on an old post from March 2007, reminded me that I had a follow up to that post lurking on my hard drive, waiting for the opportunity to be posted. From the Border Cities Star, May 11, 1929: This is an architect’s sketch of the proposed new Gilles Boulevard Christian Church which is to be erected on the corner of Gilles Boulevard and Goyeau Street, Windsor. The edifice…
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Equity Chambers - Part II

August 14, 2009
* Note this post is a follow up to another post from March, 2008. The building that was sitting vacant following the closure of Ye Olde Steakhouse in the post from March, 2008, has been reborn as the Pour House Pub. I also managed to dig up some information about the…
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Security Building Then and Now + Post 1000!

August 12, 2009
Before today’s post gets underway, I just noticed that this is post # 1000. 🙂 Today’s post features the Security Building at the north west corner of Pelissier and University in downtown Windosr. Built in 1927, it is seen here in a preliminary rendering from…
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101 Wyandotte Street West

August 10, 2009
One of my favourite downtown buildings has always been the grey streamlined building on the south west corner of Wyandotte and Pelissier. I’ve always wondered however, why there was a fish on the backside of the place… The mystery is solved, with the discovery that the building was built to house Poole’s Quality Fish Market. From the June 27, 1940 issue of the Windsor Daily…
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872 Chatham Street East

August 5, 2009
Darren from Photo404, pointed out this house to me, that I had never noticed before. Tucked away on Chatham Street, it stands abandoned and hidden behind an overgrown forest. One of the most odd features is the original Victorian porch, with the half cut off posts.
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Mayfair School

August 3, 2009
From The Border Cities Star, October 1, 1927: Here is an architect’s sketch by Cameron & Ralston, of what the new Mayfair school in school section No. 5 will look like when it is completed in a month’s time. Construction of the new school building is now…
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GM Transmission Plant

July 31, 2009
A few aerial photos of the Kildare Road factory prior to the giant renovation in 1982. In these old photos you can clearly see the separate buildings. The building on the far right served for many years (1950’s though 1980’s) as Transit Windsor’s Kildare Road garage. Old saw tooth roofed buildings, along with the old water tower. After the expansion and renovation… The…
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James Carlisle Pennington

July 24, 2009
J.C. Pennington was one of Windsor’s most prolific architects. He along with partner John Boyde designed a huge number of schools, churches and other buildings, from the 1910’s through the early 1960’s. This house on Victoria Avenue was J.C.