[1] The distinctive Tudor-Jacobean style building, built by architect Albert Kahn, housed the gallery from 1943 to 1975.

After approaching Windsor City Council to negotiate the situation, the Willistead Art Gallery became an independent institution with its own board of directors.

The gallery moved to the Devonshire Mall, leasing its industrial waterfront building to the province of Ontario to house the new Casino Windsor in order to both raise the funds needed to expand the gallery and its collections.

[3] Finally, in 1999, Dr. Lois Smedick, president of the AGW board of directors, unveiled plans for a new art museum on the old warehouse location.

Shortly thereafter, the old Carling warehouse was torn down and a new modernist building was erected in its place, which houses the Art Gallery of Windsor today.