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2001
Top Ten Endangered Sites
To mark its upcoming Tenth anniversary, Heritage Vancouver has released its first annual Top Ten Endangered Sites.
The purpose of the list is to raise awareness of our threatened heritage by heightening media exposure and by providing a focus for our ongoing activities. Buildings in the Top Ten list have already been featured in articles in the Vancouver Sun and the Courier.
Because of demolition, redevelopment, or neglect threatens so much of our heritage, it was tough to limit the list to ten. Sites were selected on the basis of urgency, importance and their ability to generate public interest. Each year, HV will feature a new list of endangered sites within the City of Vancouver, a look back at the year's success stories, and a post mortem of endangered sites lost during the previous twelve months. We will also be consulting with heritage groups around the Lower Mainland to produce a regional Top Ten Endangered list.
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These Eastside Craftsman-influenced landmarks are the last two of their kind still in use (one other, in Marpole, is now a seniors' centre).
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550 West 7th, between Cambie/Ash Streets
This Queen Anne style house is the oldest in Fairview on its original site,
appearing much the same as it did in 1894.
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1320 and 1324 Bidwell Street (at Harwood)
These tiny Victorian beach cottages are the last two
survivors from English Bay's early days.
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West 12th between Oak & Heather
VGH has applied to rezone the entire hospital site
for new hospital buildings and biomedical research facilities. None of the older
buildings, except the original Heather Pavilion, would be retained.
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West 2nd and Quebec
The main building with its heavy timber
construction, pitched roof, and rooftop lantern vents is one of the
best remaining examples of turn-of-the-century industrial architecture,
and one of the last remainling in south-east False Creek.
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Granville and Dunsmuir; Lower 600 Block Granville
The jewel in the 600 block is the BC Electric Showroom,
which despite its derelict condition is one of Vancouver's most elegant commercial buildings.
The balance of the 600 block has some of the oldest buildings in the city.
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100 block East Hastings, near Main Street
The Pantages is the city's oldest existing theatre,
and the oldest remaining from the Pantages Theatre chain in North America.
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Various projects continue to erode Stanley Park.
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At the turn of the last century, this block was at the centre
of downtown Vancouver, and had some of the city’s most sophisticated early commercial buildings
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(Lost - updated)
1752 West 5th Street
On architectural merit alone, this 1911 Craftsman house should
be ranked high on the Vancouver Heritage Register.
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