This two storey red brick four-square building has a central door with two storey canted bay windows, two hipped roof dormers, and two large rectangular brick chimneys. The building is mostly symmetrical in design except for the front porch with brick pillars, which have been altered substantially and is now missing the original porch detailing and balcony. The addition on the east side was added sometime between 1924 and 1937. The first owner of the building appears to be lumberman Walter Thomas Piggott, who was manager of the Windsor business of John Piggott & Sons, and active in the commercial circles since he moved from Chatham to Windsor in 1911. Some of his involvement include serving as president of the Builders’ and Contractor’s Association of the County of Essex, and as director of Windsor, Essex and Lake Shore Railway.2 The property was identified as one of the beautiful homes in Sandwich featured in the 1924 Border Cities Star Article as owned by the Piggotts, who subsequently sold the property in the 1930s. Canterbury College has owned the property since 1968 and named the property as the Becket House residence.
- 2559 Riverside Drive West – Canterbury College Anselm House – c.1938 – Tudor Revival – Sandwich
This tudor revival building has steeply pitched roof, arched windows at the front entrance (stained glass), clinker brick, wood shutters and chimney at the gable wall on its west. Land Registry Office records indicate that Charity Page bought the property in 1937, and her address is listed at 2559 Sandwich Street in the 1938 City Directories. Charity was a clerk at Metro Life and appears to might have been the spouse of, or was related to Arthur L. Page who was a real estate manager at U G Reaume Ltd, as both shared the same 981 Victoria Avenue address before 1938. In subsequent years, Arthur Page was listed as the property owner on City Directories although his name does not appear on any of the formal Title Records. Charity Page sold the property to Scott Rutherford in 1945. It appears that Canterbury College
2 Windsor Public Library. “Windsor and Essex County Historical Scrapbooks, vol.27. p23”. Piggott, Walter Thomas