Here is the nicest neighborhood in Windsor (and, IMO, one of the nicest in Canada), Walkerville, built around Hiram Walker's distillery empire, many of the homes here are mansions and beautiful forested areas, including the Willistead Manor, the former home of Paul Martin, our current (dumbass) Prime Minister. This is another town gobbled up by Windsor, but does have its own town centre and feels like a city within a city. The neighborhoods here are very sophisticated, IMO. Only ones I have seen as nice as this (in real life) is probably the nice neighborhoods in Buffalo, New York. I have yet to see some of Detroit's nice neighborhoods. Beautiful town in the city of Windsor, Walkerville is!

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Canada Science South City... a new science attraction in Windsor in a very nice old-school building.
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The park in the Willistead Manor estate, the most beautiful park I have ever seen.
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The Willistead Manor
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Just think, for around $250k, you might get one of these beauties! If I had the money, I'd buy one in a second!
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I wish there were more neighborhoods like this in Ontario or even Canada.
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Walkerville Town Centre (Downtown)
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Little community players theatre in Walkerville...
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Walkerville is certainly one of the best 'towns' I've ever encountered in my life.
My girlfriend and I were taking a walk down there the other day after having a late dinner and drink at the Kildare house (yellow 'house' 10th pic from bottom) and I told her I felt like I could possibly be in another city in another province for all I 'knew' It doesn't have a Windsor feel at all. The old charm is amazing. It was a beautifully planned town from the start, and in it's hay day was probably the richest most vibrant town in Ontario.

It's also the safest neighbourhood in the city, even though to its East is the 'not so safe or beautiful' Ford City, and to it's direct West is the start to Windsor's city centre.

If anyone ever wanted to come down to Windsor, I would be more than thrilled and happy to take them on a historic, pub going, county journey tour.
It would be my honour to show off a city I admit I'm proud of half of the time.

I would be thrilled to take that tour, lol. Those pics make me jealous, I wish there were more neighborhoods like that around in Canada. Not only that, those mansions are cheap, and being a mere 10-20 minute walk from the U.S. Border and Detroit (Big City Stuff and culture) and downtown Windsor, those people have it lucky down there. Certainly outdoes all suburban sprawly, $500,000 places or places where avg house prices (crappier than those) could top $300,000! The people who live there can't get any luckier than that! :) Overall, Windsor feels more like a small town than a lot of other cities that size or bigger I have been to, and I like that A LOT. :)

It really is a great neighbourhood, a definite must-see for anyone looking to tour Windsor.

Nice job Jaybird! Those pictures remind me of parts of Kitchener and parts of Edmonton.

For Kitchener: Check out the neighbourhoods around the "Westmount Golf & Country Club" - approach from Westmount Rd. Then check out Union Blvd., "Belmont Plaza" area on Belmont Ave., then see Glasgow St. I think you'll discover a part of Kitchener (very close to the border with Waterloo) that you'll agree is rather sweet. I was in that area only a month ago and the car in front of me was a Rolls Royce.

For Edmonton: Go west of downtown on Jasper Ave. and you will see areas similar to your Walkerville photos.

I heard somewhere that Walkerville is the last remnant of a planned company town in Canada. It was designed by Hiram Walker in the early 1900s and the homes built were of all different sizes to accommodate the hierarchy of workers at the Walker distillery.

Jaybird, Windsor has published walking tours of several of its historic neighbourhoods (I should have referred you to these before but I didn't know you were going down). Here's the link:

http://www.citywindsor.ca/000230.asp

Very nice! Nice to see neighbourhoods with character, you know not those never-ending same looking homes.

So one of those houses can go for $250,000 in the market? That's a bargain! If that was in Toronto the asking price would probably be something like $950,000. In Hamilton probably $450,000 and in Victoria $1,250,000 lol.

It was designed by Hiram Walker in the early 1900s and the homes built were of all different sizes to accommodate the hierarchy of workers at the Walker distillery.


Earlier than that Blitz! It all started in 1858. The town itself was already well established in the late 1880s, early 1890s!

VERY VERY NICE!
In Victoria you MIGHT get one of the smaller ones for $800k and the larger ones no less than $1.25 .
In Vancouver not one of those would go for less than one million and some upwards of two.

Yeah, you can get some pretty good deals but it really depends on the house. There are a couple homes in Walkerville selling for about $700,000 right now.

WOW!!!

Alot like Old Westmount in Waterloo.... I like alot!

Keep these photos, so I can save them later :)