P6036

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ID Number

P6036

Item Name

Image

Title

Ouellette Square / Place Ouellette

Title (Fre)

Place Ouellette

Date

1880

Description

Faded, yellowed, black and white photograph of Ouellette Avenue, looking across Ouellette Square to St. Alphonsus Church and St. Mary's Academy; in the foreground is a paved road; on the far side of the road there are two horses hitched to carts, each being driven by one man; there is a low fence beside the carts, on which men and women are leaning; there is a grassy field behind them and St. Mary's Academy and St. Alphonsus Church are visible in the background

History

The original St. Mary's Academy was built on the southeast corner of Park & Ouellette in 1865 and was demolished in 1929 to make way for the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel exit. It was relocated to Academy Drive in South Windsor. Called the "New" St. Mary's Academy, this building was designed by Viau and Venne in the Collegiate Gothic Revival Style and opened in 1929. The building was sold to a major Windsor developer and it was dynamited in 1977 to make way for a new subdivision. The fight to save St. Mary's came at a time when the Windsor Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (WACAC) had just been formed. Although the battle was lost, citizen awareness of heritage certainly increased. The site of St. Alphonsus Church, on Goyeau at Park, was blessed in 1856. The cornerstone for the church was laid in the spring of 1871 and the building was completed within three years at a cost of $30,000.

Place made

Canada - Ontario - Windsor

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subjects

Buildings / Immeubles

Carts & wagons / Charrettes & chariots

Horses / Chevaux

Leisure / Loisirs

Men / Hommes

Ouellette Ave. / Avenue Ouellette

Ouellette Square / Place Ouellette

St. Alphonsus Church / Église St. Alphonsus

St. Mary's Academy / Académie Sainte-Marie

Umbrellas / Parapluies

Women / Femmes