Burrard View Park Yale St Heritage House Tour 2021 ONLINE Wall St Trinity St New Brighton 1( Park 210 4 210 4 Hwy 1 McGill McGill St McGill St Park Creekway Park N Slocan St St N Kamloops St N Penticton St N Renfrew Eton St Eton St 210 N 210 Heritage 210 Cambridge St Cambridge St 1* Explorer Callister Pacific W E Hastings Racecourse Hastings Park 4 1& Park Coliseum Mini Map Oxford St Oxford St Pacific National Guide Exhibition S 7 1! 210 Dundas St 1) Dundas St 130 Templeton Dr Templeton Garden Dr Nanaimo St Lakewood Dr Lakewood Kaslo St Kaslo This map is provided Powell St Livestock 28 Building Agrodome for general reference Triumph St Triumph St only. We recommend 7 using a detailed map Salisbury Dr Kamloops St Kamloops 1# St Penticton 1$ Slocan St St Renfrew 28 Victoria Dr and checking for Semlin Dr Pandora St Pandora St Forum Empire Field current transit and bike Pandora Park 1^ Playland at the PNE 130 1% route information. 1@ Hwy 1 Franklin St Franklin St Wooden Momiji Roller Gardens Coaster 16 14 16 14 28 130 27 E Hastings St E Hastings St E Hastings St E Hastings St Hastings 7 16 Community Park 27 Bike Route Transit Route Places That Matter Plaque Hastings–Sunrise 650 N Penticton St | Burrard View Park 1) 2627 Dundas St | McLeod House The annual Heritage House Tour has highlighted 2760 Yale St | Heaps House 1! 2449 Dundas St Vancouver’s diverse historic homes and neighbourhoods | Perkins House 1@ 2475 Franklin St | St. David’s Church since 2003, exploring local history, architecture and 2636 Trinity St design. As part of Heritage House Tour 2021 Online, 2439 Eton St | Bergquist House 1# 2543 Pandora St | Kendrik House VHF is providing opportunities and ideas to explore in a 2451 Eton St 1$ 2617 Pandora St safe way with self-guided tours. Walk, bike or drive and 2598 Eton St | Woodside Apartments 1 % 2625 Franklin St | Hastings Elementary School use the map provided with highlighted stops along the 2728 Pandora St | Campbell House way to discover the distinctive character and history of 2680 Eton St 1^ the area. The heritage places noted are just a sampling 2640 Oxford St 1& Callister Park | Con Jones Park of points of interest along the route. Enjoy exploring! 2620 Oxford St | Ellsworth House 1* Pacific National Exhibition Grounds 1( New Brighton Salt Marsh Presenting Sponsor DONATE If you enjoyed using this guide, please consider making a donation to Vancouver Heritage Foundation to support innovative programming and heritage conservation A B C D E F N Heritage Heritage House Tour 2021 ONLINE Explorer Hastings–Sunrise W E Mini Map Guide In 1863, five years after the British government established the 650 N Penticton St 2451 Eton St S Colony of British Columbia, Colonel Richard Moody of the Royal Burrard View Park & Babies Cottage 1911 | Heritage Register: B | Engineers chose X̱í7nam̓ ut (Khanamoot), today’s New Brighton Park, 1924 Heritage Register: B Louis Leduc likely built this unusual gambrel-roofed house the same On a beautiful sloping site above Wall Street, Burrard year that Hastings Townsite voted to amalgamate with Vancouver. as the logical destination of a wagon road connecting Burrard Inlet View Park contains remnants of the city’s oldest social In 1951, the owners converted it to three individual suites; 40 years with the colonial capital New Westminster. A primitive ferry service services agencies. On the west side, the old foundation later, new owners converted it back to its original single-family soon connected New Brighton with sawmills in North Vancouver was the notorious Vancouver Juvenile Detention Home, a layout. and the Hastings Mill (Gastown). Moody supervised the creation of 1930 building by city architect Arthur Julius Bird. Closer a government town reserve, extending east from modern Nanaimo to the east side, a terraced piece of ground is the site of 2598 Eton St | Woodside Apartments, Park Grocery Street and south almost to Kingsway, that became known as the the Children’s Aid home, built in 1906 in what was then 1911 | Heritage Register: B an undeveloped part of the city. It became the Wall Street Frank Woodside, who spearheaded the vote for Hastings Townsite Hastings Townsite. In that era, the Indigenous people – səlil̓wətaʔɬ Orphanage in the 1920s. The remaining building on the to join the City of Vancouver, financed this corner store with , , and ̓ (Tsleil-Waututh) Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) xʷməθkʷəyəm park, originally part of the Family Court Complex and known apartments above. He maintained his office here during his tenure (Musqueam) – were increasingly confined to villages on the North as Babies Cottage, is now the Cottage Hospice. as Ward Alderman 1911-28. The nearby streetcar line along McGill Shore and in Stanley Park. Street to Renfrew, completed for the opening of the Vancouver | Exhibition, spurred the area’s settlement. Later owners Bunzo In 1865, the Brighton Hotel opened as a seaside resort for 2760 Yale St Heaps House 1912-14 | Heritage Register: B and Misu Watanabe called it the Park Grocery; along with all of vacationers from New Westminster. In 1869, the area was renamed This very tall front gabled house was home to James the Japanese-Canadian property on the coast, it was confiscated Hastings, after Rear Admiral Hastings of the British naval fleet Wilson Heaps, vice-president of E.H. Heaps and Co, which and resold by the federal government shortly after the wartime stationed on the Pacific coast, and the first subdivision lots in manufactured lumber, shingles, sash, door and mouldings. internment of its owners in 1942. the future Vancouver were put up for sale. Logging and milling Known for producing bank and office fixtures in native- of the primeval forest began, and in 1887 the Canadian Pacific and hardwoods, the company had a mill, factory and local 2676 and 2680 Eton St | Railway completed its tracks along the south shore of Burrard Inlet, lumber office at Powell St and Victoria Drive; that area was 1911–12 Heritage Register: B known as “Heaps” to the many Japanese Canadians who Two examples of characteristic house styles from the 1910s: 2676 bypassing Hastings en route to its terminus on the waterfront of worked there a century ago. is a one-and-a-half storey Edwardian with a filled-in front porch the newly incorporated City of Vancouver. Although relegated to to create more indoor space and a small balcony/sleeping porch a backwater, Hastings deserves a significant spot in the history of 2636 Trinity Street | Perkins House tucked into the gable; 2680 is a Colonial Revival with a full-width Vancouver as the site of the city’s first road, hotel, wharf and post 1912 | Heritage Register: B front porch added to its boxy main floor, a full second floor, and office. A simple front-gabled vernacular house, it was built just the characteristic little dormer on the front face of its hipped roof, before the First World War by carpenter Harry Perkins. The illuminating a useless attic space. In December 1911, the landowners of Hastings Townsite, who had Perkins family lived in this house until at least 1945. Like built a scattering of houses across the area, voted 1,200 to 1 to join most houses of the period, it is set nearly one storey above 2640 Oxford St the City of Vancouver, which had developed eastward almost to its its garden, allowing room for a central furnace without 1918 | Heritage Register: C (M) Nanaimo Street eastern boundary. Residential development of the incurring the cost of digging a deep basement. E.W. Barrett’s small Craftsman house from 1918 – a style often called area took off in the 1920s and by the 1940s most of the available a California Bungalow and most common in Kitsilano – reflects the | shrinkage of house sizes typical of the decades between the end of land was covered with single family housing. Despite the complete 2439 Eton St Bergquist House 1911 | Heritage Register: B (M) (H) the First World War and the 1960s. (Pre-World War I houses were industrial development of the waterfront, a park was created at Andrew Bergquist built this for himself in 1911 for $2500. It usually 1 ½ to 2 ½ storeys.) Elements of the style include an inset the old site of X̱í7nam̓ ut (Khanamoot) and Brighton. New Brighton is a nicely detailed example of the Edwardian Style, with an full-width porch, shallow roof pitch and a front gable, sometimes outdoor pool opened in 1936. inset front porch and a fine sleeping porch upstairs, which with faux half-timbering, and a small window illuminating an attic unfortunately faces away from the mountain view. Bergquist only useful for storage. Note the very large early house across the Today’s Hastings-Sunrise area takes in the northern portion of the old also built several other local houses, including 2457 and street at 2625, converted into four suites. townsite. Bisected by busy Hastings Street, it is a diverse community 2487 Eton, and an apartment building at 2598 Eton built in with a wide range of interesting buildings, many with views over the 1911 (#6). working port toward Grouse and Seymour mountains. IMPORTANT NOTE Many of the sites noted on the tour are private homes and property. They are not open to visitors. Please respect privacy. Please enjoy viewing the stops on the tour from the sidewalk and do not enter private gardens or www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org property for any reason. G H I J K L N Heritage Heritage House Tour 2021 ONLINE Explorer Hastings–Sunrise W E Mini Map Guide 2620 Oxford St | Ellsworth House 2543 Pandora St | Kendrik House S 2728 Pandora St | Campbell House 1^ 1918-19 | Heritage Register: B (M) 1# 1928 | Heritage Register: C (M) 1927 | Heritage Register: C Built and owned by E.G.