List of Heritage Buildings in Vancouver

Assembly

(Group A) - places used for people gathering for entertainment, worship, and eating or drinking. Examples: churches, restaurants (with 50 or more possible occupants), theaters, and stadiums.

Name Heritage Class	Location Neighbourhood	Description	Year	Builder or Architect	Plaque
Brock House (Thorley Park)	3875 Point Grey Road	This Tudor Revival house was originally a private residence and at one time a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment. This is now a seniors activity centre and a restaurant open to the public. Brock House also stages over 200 weddings per year.	1911	Samuel Maclure, architect
Bay Theatre (Starlight Theatre)	907-935 Denman Street	This Art Moderne style theater included a sign tower. The present owners, Amadon Group, requested a variance from the city by-laws in order to make the building viable and preserve the heritage building. The redesign was by Hewitt, Tan & Kwasnicky Architects'.	1939	Dominion Construction Ltd., original builder Paul Kwasnicky, architect?
Pantages Theatre	144-156 East Hastings Street	Demolished 2011.	1907–1908	Edward Evans Blackmore, architect & designer B. Marcus Priteca
Holy Rosary Cathedral	646 Richards Street	The cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver. Among other notable events, it was the setting for the civic funeral of popular English Bay lifeguard Joe Fortes. The style is French Gothic, and very different from the castellated Anglican, United Church and Baptist churches on Burrard.	1899–1900	Julien & Williams, architects
Provincial Courthouse	800 West Georgia Street	This Neo-classic building was originally designed by Francis Rattenbury, who also designed the Empress Hotel & the Parliament Building in Victoria. In 1912 the West wing was added and designed by Thomas Hooper. In 1983 the building was renovated & restored by architect, Arthur Erickson and is the current home of the Vancouver Art Gallery.	1906–1913	Francis Rattenbury, architect
Gabriola (Angus Apartments)	1531 Davie Street	Gabriola, was built for B.T. Rogers, founder of B.C. Sugar Refining Co. This Queen Anne grand mansion, is located in the Vancouver West End. The building became the Angus Apartments in 1925. It became a restaurant, but it is currently vacant.	1901	Samuel Maclure, architect
Hycroft	1489 McRae Avenue	The house of General Alexander Duncan McRae and family where frequent parties were hosted that were "must attend" for the city's socialites. McRae donated it to the government of Canada for use as a veteran's hospital. It is now used by the University Women's Club. Today it is one of the most-used filming locations in Vancouver.	1909	Thomas Hooper, architect
Heritage Hall Class:A(M)	3102 Main Street Mount Pleasant	Originally a post office, this building was occupied by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in the 1970s before being restored in the 1980s as a community arts venue. The design is said to derive from a misdirected set of plans that were meant for another city in the Prairies, which got the smaller building meant to have been constructed here.	1914	Archibald Campbell Hope, architect
Hastings Mill Store	1575 Alma Road	The oldest building in Vancouver, moved by barge from its original location at the north foot of Dunlevy to Point Grey & Alma. The Native Daughters of British Columbia opened it as a museum.	1865	Erected by Captain Edward Stamp & Associates
Orpheum Theatre	884 Granville Street	Originally a vaudeville house on Theatre Row, the building was fully restored in the 1970s and is now an important live music venue and home to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.	1927	B. Marcus Priteca, architect
Aberthau House (Rear House)	4397 West 2nd Avenue	This Tudor Revival was built for James S. Rear, General Manager, of American Life Insurance. Later bought by Col. Victor Spencer who called it Aberthau (Welsh for: place filled with light). Presently, it is a cultural and recreational center run by the Vancouver Park Board.	1909	Samuel Maclure, architect
St. Andrew's Wesley Church	1012 Nelson Street	This a Gothic Revival style church. The church was constructed after the union of the Methodist & Presbyterian churches, to form the United Church of Canada.	1931–1933	George Twizell & Robert Twizell, architects
Tulk House Rosemary (Order of the Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle)	3689 Selkirk Street	This Tudor Revival manor was built for whiskey baron & lawyer, Edward Tulk, who name the house after his daughter, Rosemary. It was also home to the Lieutenant Governor of B.C., John William Fordham Johnson. From 1947, the house was owned by the Order of the convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle until 1996, where it was used as a retreat.	1915	Samuel Maclure & Cecil Fox, architects
St. James Anglican Church	303 East Cordova Street	An art deco variant on Byzantine church design.	1935–1937	Adrian Gilbert Scott, architect
Christ Church Cathedral	690 Burrard Street	Style is English Romanesque	1889–1895	Charles Osborn Wickenden, architect
Beatty Street Drill Hall	620 Beatty Street	Home of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own), the most senior military unit in the city.	1899–1901	David Ewart, architect
Seaforth Armoury	Burrard Street @ 1st Avenue	Home of The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada	1935–1936	McCarter and Nairne, architects	No plaque mounted
The Vancouver Club	915 West Hastings		1912–1914	Sharp & Thompson, architects
Alexandra Park Haywood Bandstand	1755 Beach Avenue	The Alexandra Park Bandstand is situated in a triangular-shaped park bordered by Beach Avenue, Burnaby Street and Bidwell Street in Vancouver's West End, overlooking English Bay.	1915
First Baptist Church	969 Burrard Street	The church suffered a serious fire in 1931. But was restored by a parishioner, Charles Bentall, owner of Dominion Construction.	1911	Burke, Horwood, & White, architects
St. Paul's Anglican Episcopal Church	1130 Jervis Street	This Gothic Revival church is built in Vancouver's West End.	1905	William Henry Archer, architect
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral	154 East 10th Avenue	The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Parish was established in Vancouver on May 9, 1937. At Easter in 1950, the first Divine Liturgy was served in the newly built, but as yet unfinished, church. In December 1977, the Vancouver City Council designated the church as an architectural Heritage Building and an engraved plaque was placed on the exterior of the church building. The Parish is classified as a Cathedral under the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.	1950	Serij J. Timoshenko, architect
Stanley Park Pavilion	Stanley Park		1911
Fire Hall No. 1	270-280 East Cordova Street	Possibly the first fire hall in North America designed specifically for motorized fire trucks, this building was converted into the Fire Hall Arts Centre in the 1970s. Listed as "Fire Hall No. 2."	1906–1907	William T. Whiteway, architect
Coroner's Court	238-240 East Cordova Street	This building was originally the facility for the city coroner and was later used by the city analyst. It was turned into a museum for the Vancouver Police Department as a project marking the city's centennial in 1986.	1932	Arthur J. Bird, architect
Chalmers Church	2801 Hemlock		1912	Samuel Buttrey Birds, architect
Evangelistic Tabernacle	85 East 10th Ave	Please see Mount Pleasent Presbyterian Church	1909–1910
St. Mary's (Kerrisdale) Church & Hall	2498 West 37th Ave	The church and the parish hall are both designated as heritage buildings.	1913 1923	Sharp & Thompson, architects
Vancouver Public Library	350 Burrard	This is the second Vancouver Public Library central branch building after the Carnegie and before the current Library Square opened in 1995. The building is occupied by a music store and the studios of CTV Vancouver station CIVT-TV.	1957	Harold Semmens and Doug Simpson, architects
Japanese Hall & School	475 Alexander Street	Seized by the government as part of the Japanese Canadian internment during the Second World War, this building was an important centre of the Japanese community in Vancouver. It has since been returned and restored as a cultural centre and a language school has been added.	1928
Stanley Theatre	2750 Granville Street	This Moorish style enterior art deco theater is the last surviving neighbourhood theater in Vancouver. Today it is a live theater called, Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.	1930	Henry Holdsby Simmonds, architect	100px
Terminal City Lawn Bowling Club	1650 West 14th Avenue		1935
Connaught Park Fieldhouse	2390 West 10th Avenue		1925
Memorial Park South Fieldhouse	5950 Prince Albert		1930
Vancouver Rowing Club Clubhouse	Stanley Park	Originally located on the other side of Coal Harbour, at the foot of the bluff below Hastings Street below the foot of Howe and near the Vancouver Club, the original building was floated across to the present location and rebuilt as a stationary building on pilings. The style is mock Tudor.	1911
Mount Pleasent Presbyterian Church	2525 Quebec Street	This Romanesque Revival church was used as a church until 1989. The building was used as a performing arts theater, but was converted to a residential complex by 1994.	1909	Parr and Fee, architects
St. Francis of Assisi Church	2025 & 2035 Napier Street				No plaque mounted

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