Windsor

Yesterday afternoon, the was an open house at the new Tecumseh East, East Side arena. Located downtownbehind a factory towards the eastern city limits, as far as possible from downtown, another temple to the car is going up. Drive in, drive out. It’s the Windsor Way. As you walk down the service drive from the Lear plant parking lot, the beast rises. The not-arena part is coming along…

Back in May – I covered Glenwood United from the outside. I met up with a parishioner, who gave me the guided tour of the interior. Designed by the firm of Pennington & Carter and built in 1962, the architect who designed it was William Fraser while working for the firm (thanks to Doug Johnson and David R. for confirming that). The church is just as interesting on the inside as it is…

At my opening reception, I was speaking with Architect Doug Johnson, of Johnson-McWhinnie. He told me that of all the buildings in the show, I missed the one his was most proud of designing. He told me it was a chuch right off of Norfolk, between Dominion and Dougall, and that I couldn’t miss it. Apparently I some how overlooked what is perhap the most striking Mid-Century Structure in the…