A retired architecture professor has said that Windsorites should pay more attention to the architectural heritage of their city.

Ahead of his free lecture entitled Windsor's Amazing Architecture Hiding in Plain Sight, Frank Perissinotti shared his thoughts about some interesting buildings in the city. 

"It's something that I wanted to make people aware of — buildings that they drive by every single day and they don't always pay attention to," Perissinotti told CBC News. "There's a lot of amazing stories about some of the buildings that we have here locally, especially the architects and the people that had them commissioned."

The lecture is taking place February 20, at the Fogolar Furlan Club of Windsor. 

"Windsor's architecture is amazing," Perissinotti added. "There was a lot of great turn of the century buildings that we have in the city.... In the 1920s, Windsor was a very thriving city and along with Detroit.