Windsor Arms Building - Integrated Project Dossier (2016)

The Windsor Arms building was first constructed in 1929 and later opened on April 30, 1930. Cecil Burgess designed the building in the Art Nouveau style, with modern amenities of the time. The cost to build was $300,000, which is about 85% more than the average construction cost of the time due to these modern amenities. When the building was first opened for tenancy, lobby and parking attendants as well as maid services were available to the residents. At the time when the building was built, highway 417 were originally rail lines, and the block the building sits on was originally shared with the Ottawa Auditorium and the Beaver Barracks. The Auditorium once housed the original Senators and was eventually demolished in 1967, which was then replaced by YMCA-YWCA. This is the Integrated Project Dossier compiled by a group of undergraduate students of the Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Program (Engineers and architects) at Carleton University for the CIVE3207 (ARCN4100) Historic Site Recording and Assessment course in 2016.