Downtown Rossland Neighbourhood

Downtown Rossland has historic value for its dense clustering of buildings reflecting the town's gold mining era. Many of the historical buildings are valued survivors of two devastating fires and a weakening mining economy in the late 1920s. Columbia Avenue represents not only these early buildings, but also buildings from pre-World War II, wartime and postwar era. These later buildings are important markers of Rossland's continuing invigoration over the decades since its mining heyday.

The downtown area, currently represented by several blocks of Columbia Avenue, is important not only for its built heritage resources, but for its streetscape, street trees, public open spaces and public art. Views to the surrounding mountains strongly situate Downtown in its spectacular alpine setting.

Downtown Rossland is important for its still-intact small lot pattern of development that supports small businesses and contributes to a diverse and local commercial life, fostering a sense that Downtown is the city's social centre.