Appendix A-Reasons for Designation from Heritage Designation by-law 99-2001

From By-law No. 99-2001, March 19, 2001: [Legal description amended with By-law No. 305-2001, on September 4, 2001]

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION

166 Tecumseh Road West, Windsor, Ontario

St. Peter’s Maronite Church and Rectory

Historical

• Third home of the St. Clare Parish - the sixth Catholic parish established in Windsor on June 26,1924

• Construction began on November 10, 1930 and on June 13, 1931 the building was blessed and dedicated for divine worship. The first mass was held for the 315 families of the parish on June 14, 1931

• Was threatened with demolition in the late 1990’s due to declining members but was purchased in 2000 by St. Peter’s Maronite Catholic Church which had outgrown its’ building at 879 Parent Avenue, Windsor, Ontario

Architectural

• Designed by renowned local architect Albert H. Lothian - who designed the Church, Rectory and everything found within from the light sconces to the painted Station of the Cross and pews

• Windsor’s most outstanding Art Deco style building - believed to be the only Art Deco church of its kind in Canada

• Exterior of buff coloured brick cladding with intricate jagged patterns, coped with aluminum, and broken with angular projections and pale stained glass windows

• Aluminum clad spire topped with cross of the same material

• Interior layout focuses on the high altar, with clusters of pews radiating on three axes from the altar; unusual interior features include stained glass leaded windows, non-figural cruciform clerestory windows, decorative iron grille in a Calvary Cross pattern which separates the Winter Chapel from the nave, pillars with segmental columns that taper from top to bottom

• Adjacent two storey rectory of same design and materials as church has gable roof and three-sided brick portico on east façade; upper windows are double hung 6/6 with intricate brick surrounds; sets of three narrow windows flank the east portico