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5. Chinatown and Gastown

2005

The future of Chinatown & Gastown is again uncertain but it’s not due to lack of heritage incentives. Property owners and developers are indeed rushing to the trough not to rehabilitate, however, but to demolish all but street-facing facades. The future of...

6. Roselawn Funeral Home (1941) [lost]

2005

The City’s 1986 Heritage Register is out-of-date and full of holes; that means Roselawn Funeral Home (1669 East Broadway near Commercial) may soon end up in one in a landfill site. As this exquisite 1941 Mission-style building is not listed on the Register, it...

7. Percy Underwood Office (circa 1946) [lost]

2005

Yet another gap in the Register, and another building under threat. Best known for his design of the Park Board offices at the Beach Avenue entrance to Stanley Park, Percy Underwood was one of Vancouver’s earliest practitioners of the International Style. His...

8. Firehall No. 15 (1913) [saved]

2005

Concern for Firehall No. 15 persists: it’s the last remaining of its kind still in use, as Firehall No. 13 was demolished in 2002. Built in 1913, Firehall No. 15 features extensive interior woodwork, ornate pressed-metal ceilings, and the original brass pole....

9. PNE Livestock Building (1929/1940)

2005

2004 was a year of much debate about the future of Hastings Park and the PNE; yet many issues remain to be resolved. One of them the future of the Livestock Building. The Livestock Building has national significance as the marshalling facility for the internment of...