Strathcona
the Strathcona is part of Vancouver , Downtown Eastside .Interesting places in Strathcona:
| McLean Park | Union Market | |
| Sunday Soccer | Pender Place | |
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Ell's House - 1905
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750 Princess Street, Vancouver, BC. This Edwardian ‘Classic Box’ house features triple Doric columns, and front and side bay windows. It was built in 1905 for William Ward Ells and was first occupied by John Stothart, a tobacconist. In 1905, the house fronted on Carl and Barnard Streets, now renamed Princess and Union, respectively. Under the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s ‘True Colours’ Program, this house has been restored to its original Edwardian Colours. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program Good-quality features include the three sets of double Doric columns that support the front porch, the bay windows in both the front and side elevations and the coloured leaded glass in the windows. Note the impressive millwork inside: on the pocket doors separating the reception rooms and on the imposing newel post. It is a classic Edwardian Box, similar to houses in contemporary builders’ advertisements. It gives the impression that it utilizes every inch of space to good advantage. Its neighbour, built slightly later to the north on what was, until recently, a shared lot, is equally substantial. More local lore suggests that the house was variously a brothel, speakeasy and rooming house. Perhaps this can be substantiated as, during renovations, artifacts were found hidden in the walls. They included Chineseand Russian newspapers, picture postcards, whisky bottles, a cigarette case sporting a risqué photograph of a pin-up lady, a packet of condoms and various domestic articles such as bottles, jars and a toothbrush. A spanner was also discovered - traditionally, builders would leave a tool in a wall for good luck. It has since been almost completely restored with a keen eye and many hours of hard labour that have preserved both its architectural integrity and its sense of history. The exterior was painted in the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Historical True Colours through a grant from the Foundation and Benjamin Moore Paint. The colour scheme consists of Benjamin Moore’s Hastings Red, Edwardian Buff and High Gloss Black. Heritage Vancouver
Dodd House & Hemphill House - 1908
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615 and 621 Princess Street, Vancouver, BC. 615 Princess: This house was first occupied by Charles Dodd, a clerk for the Vancouver Ice Company. In contrast to the earlier Victorian homes built on short posts and heated by fireplaces, this home and its neighbours were constructed with full basements to accommodate the new wood-burning furnaces and a stockpile of wood or sawdust. They also featured wide front porches and large windows, giving them a ‘modern’ airy quality. Under the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s ‘True Colours’ program, this house has been painted in a colour scheme authentic to its style and era. 621 Princess: This classic ‘Edwardian Box’ home and the three next to it were all completed in 1908 by carpenter-builders Wm. H. Rogers and John McKay. At the time Princess Avenue was called Carl Street and the neighbourhood was known as the East End. The house’s first occupants were five men named Hemphill, of Hemphill Brothers Limited, engineers and contractors, who all lived here during Vancouver’s greatest building boom. Under the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s ‘True Colours’ program, this house has been painted in a colour scheme authentic to its style and era. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program
Fleming House - 1902
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643 East Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC. This 1902 Victorian home was built for David Fleming, a millwright at McNair’s Shingle Mill. At the time, McNair lived around the corner at 630 Princess and was known as the “Shingle King of North America.” This house features whole courses of shingles with a decorative circular pattern and fretwork in the gable. The builder, William Cline, constructed over a dozen homes in 1902-04, including 616, 727, 732 and 745 Princess. In the late 1930s, when this street became the centre of Vancouver’s Jewish community, Rose Rothstein was the owner of this house. In 2004, this home was restored and an infill dwelling was constructed at the rear of the site. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program
Chan House - 1906
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658 Keefer Street, Vancouver, BC. Heritage Value: The Chan House at 658 Keefer Street, built in 1906, is of heritage value principally because of its association with early and long-term owners. As an example of early workers’ housing, its original occupant was David Inches, an Engineer, from 1906 to 1920. Beginning in 1958 it was owned by Chinatown merchant Walter Chan and his wife Mary. Mary Chan, listed as sole occupant since 1974, was a community leader whose work included preventing the freeway through Strathcona. It was at this house where such activism created the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association. The house is also a good example of Edwardian design, featuring a full width porch with turned columns and a bay window projecting on to the porch. - City of Vancouver
504-516 Hawks - 1898-1900
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504-516 Hawks Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Built between 1898 and 1900 as rental housing, these wooden buildings have been inhabited over the years by a variety of people from many cultures including a steamship captain, a cigar maker, and theatre stagehand. When these buildings were renovated in 1987 only four of the six existed. Through a collaborative effort between the building owners and the building contractor, the four original houses were renovated and the two missing buildings replicated as part of this innovative strata-title development. City of Vancouver Heritage Plaque Program
Nearest places of interest:
| Radical Entertainment Pacific Central Station Union Market Strathcona Park | McLean Park Pender Place Downtown Eastside Oppenheimer Park |
