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2003
Top Ten Endangered Sites
This is our third annual list
of Top 10 endangered sites.
The 2003 Heritage Week theme was public places,
many of the 2003 selections include public buildings, structures
and spaces. You'll also notice that quite a few sites from
last year's list are still at risk.
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Completed
in 1932 to provide a high-level crossing to the western
neighbourhoods, the bridge is a triumph of civic architecture
and a key gateway structure.
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Vancouver's only
residential heritage character area is fast losing its
prime heritage stock of pre-1940s houses. A total of
44 A- and B-listed houses have been lost since the First
Shaughnessy Official Development Plan was created in
1982 to protect the pre-1940 character of the neighbourhood.
The pace has accelerated in recent years, with grand
old homes being replaced at a rate of four to six houses
a year.
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(Lost - updated)
6090 Chancellor Blvd, UBC
One of Vancouver's
finest examples of the English Arts and Crafts movement,
this Voyseyesque design was built for the Anglican Theological
College in 1927, two years after development of the
UBC Point Grey campus.
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Once
the commercial heart of Vancouver, Hastings Street between
Cambie and Main is the city's best surviving turn-of-the-century
streetscape. However, the buildings sit empty, with
little or no maintenance. Demolition has left ugly gaps
along the street. Hastings needs help before all of
it is lost to the wrecking ball.
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620 Beatty & 2025 West 11th Ave near Arbutus
The Beatty Street Drill Hall,
built from 1899 to 1901 as the headquarters of the B.C.
Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles, is Vancouver's
oldest surviving drill hall. The Bessborough Armoury,
a B-listed heritage site, was constructed between 1931
and 1933, and was officially opened by the Earl of Bessborough
in 1934.
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Beatty/Georgia Streets, NE corner
The
escarpment below Beatty Street is among Downtown's few
remaining natural features and provides a commanding
site for the historic Beatty Street Drill Hall. Set
into the base of the cliff is a concrete Art Deco portal
marking the eastern entrance of the old CPR Dunsmuir
Tunnel.
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PNE Playland
Playland's
Wooden Roller Coaster is known across North America
as one of the best coaster rides going, but if the PNE
becomes history, the Coaster's future is bleak.
> see full details
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30 Water Street, Gastown
Located in Gastown on Water
Street, this building was constructed just after the
1886 Great Fire, and is a Gastown landmark, and one
of the oldest buildings in the city.
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An
isolated vestige of early development still exists south
of the Georgia Viaduct, featuring everything from miraculously
intact wooden boomtown structures to substantial brick
and masonry buildings.
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One of the last vestiges
of the Jericho Seaplane Base, a hive of activity during
WWII.
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