Business
(Group B) - places where services are provided (not to be confused with mercantile, below). Examples: banks, insurance agencies, government buildings (including police and fire stations), and doctor's offices.
| Name Heritage Class |
Location Neighbourhood |
Description | Year | Builder or Architect |
Photo | Plaque |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firehall #6 | 1000 Nicola Street |
1907 | Honeyman and Curtis, architects | |||
| Royal Bank of Canada | 400-404 West Hastings Street |
1937 | S.G. Davenport, architect | |||
| Tellier Tower (Holden Building) |
10-16 East Hastings Street |
1910–1911 | William Tuff Whiteway, architect | |||
| Douglas Lodge (Bank of Commerce) |
2799 Granville Street |
This Georgian Revival building is a commercial & residential landmark building on Granville street. | 1912 | W.M. Dodd, architect | ||
| Hudson's Bay Insurance Company | 900 West Hastings |
1911 | William A. Doctor, architect | |||
| Dick Building | 1490 West Broadway |
Named after William Dick, who was a Vancouver business man and MLA. | 1929 | Townley & Matheson, architects | ||
| Sun Tower | 100 West Pender Street |
Originally built as the Vancouver World building, it acquired its current name when the Vancouver Sun (originally the Vancouver News-Advertiser) newspaper occupied the building between 1937 and 1964. At time of construction, it was the tallest building in the British Empire, succeeded in that capacity by the Marine Building and preceded by the Dominion Building. | 1912 | L. D. Taylor; William T. Whiteway, architect | ||
| Federal Building | 715 West Hastings Street |
Part of the Sinclair Centre complex. | 1937 | |||
| Marine Building | 355 Burrard Street |
The tallest skyscraper in the British Empire when it opened in 1930, this marine-themed Art Deco structure cost $2.3 million but was sold to the Guinness family for only $900,000 once the Great Depression set in. It was restored in the 1980s. Its terra-cotta tiled art deco entrance, ornate revolving door and etched brass elevators doors form one of the busiest filming locations in the city. | 1929–1930 | J. W. Hobbs; McCarter and Nairne, architects | ||
| National Harbours Board Building | 50 North Dunlevy Street |
1905 | ||||
| BC Permanent Loan Building | 330 West Pender Street |
1907 | Hooper and Watkins, architects | |||
| Canada Permanent Building (Century House) |
432 Richards Street |
1911 | John Smith Davidson Taylor, architect | |||
| Vancouver Block | 736 Granville Street |
1912 | Parr and Fee, architects | |||
| Winch Building | 739 West Hastings Street |
Part of the Sinclair Centre complex. | 1909 | Thomas Hooper, architect | ||
| Vancouver City Hall | 453 West 12th Avenue |
After years of political wrangling while city affairs were conducted from a temporary location in the Holden Building, the new city hall was finally completed on 4 December 1936, Vancouver's jubilee year. The original design included a twin to the current building, across Cambie Street where the City Square redevelopment of the former Normal School and Model School is now, as a gateway leading across a jointly planned rebuild of the Cambie Street Bridge. The larger project was cancelled because of the Depression. | 1936 | Townley & Matheson, architects | ||
| Canadian Northern Railway Station (Pacific Central Station) |
1150 Station Street |
This Neoclassical Revival building is the built on reclaimed land that was part of False Creek. It continues to function as a train station but in 1993 the station became a multi transportation station where intercity buses also depart from. The heritage designation includes the neon sign. | 1917–1919 | Pratt & Ross, architects | ||
| Toronto Dominion Bank | 560-580 West Hastings Street |
1920 | ||||
| Bank of Montreal - Main & Prior Branch Class: B(M)(H)(I) |
906 Main Street Strathcona |
This Classical Revival style temple bank is one of three that were designed by Honeyman & Curtis. In 2005 this building was incorporated into a new development of apartments and acts as the main foyer to these units. | 1929 | Honeyman & Curtis, architects | ||
| Commercial & 1st Class: A |
1704 East 1st Avenue Grandview-Woodland |
Commercial & residential building that is the heart of what the locals called The Drive (referring to Commercial Drive). | No plaque issued |
Read more about this topic: List Of Heritage Buildings In Vancouver
Famous quotes containing the word business:
“After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“And what if my descendants lose the flower
Through natural declension of the soul,
Through too much business with the passing hour,
Through too much play, or marriage with a fool?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)