Lost Windsor

Fisher Body Plant - 1926

January 8, 2023
A view of the Fisher Body Plant in Ford City. The factory was located at the south west corner of Edna & St Luke. Following its run as a Fisher Body plant in the early 1930s, the building went through a number of uses over the years, before becoming home to Complete Packaging. In November 1987, the building was torched by an arsonist, and in one of Windsor’s largest fires the entire…
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940 Assumption

November 13, 2022
Image from SWODA The image above comes from a book published in 1913. The image above shows the Marshall Foundry. The foundry location at 940 Assumption, in the block just east from Parent, did infrastructure castings, like sewer grates, and manhole covers. Image from…
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Auto Specialties Co - Tecumseh Road

December 6, 2020
Back in 2009 we took a quick look at this one, and left with more questions than answers. Despite being a major employer at the time, it strange that so little info exists on this one, and I have been unable to even locate a decent picture of the place. Map of the…
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Colonial Tool

September 6, 2020
Located on the west side of Walker Road at Seneca Street is this factory belonging to the Colonial Tool Group. A handsome red brick building, with a two storey office building on the south end with decorative stone elements, they sure don’t build factories like they used to. Interestingly enough, 78 years later, Colonial Tool is still in the building they built for themselves.
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