Historic places inVancouver
British Columbia
- historic places
- 403historic places
- built
- 1880–1986built
Recognized by
- National 18
- Provincial 14
- Municipal 371
Armoury1899Photo: (Department of National Defence, 1989.)
Former Main Post Office1905
R. V. Winch Building1909
Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station1917
Orpheum Theatre National Historic Site of Canada1926
Where to start
The most widely recognized places first, then the oldest.
Photo: Parks Canada / Parcs Canada, 2010 (Kate MacFarlane)National1880Vancouver's Chinatown National Historic Site of CanadaAlso known as Vancouver's ChinatownVancouver’s Chinatown National Historic Site of Canada is a distinct neighbourhood on the east side of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photo: Andrew Waldron, Parks Canada Agency / Agence Parcs Canada, 2008.National1886Gastown Historic District National Historic Site of CanadaAlso known as Gastown Historic DistrictGastown Historic District National Historic Site of Canada is located on the south side of Burrard Inlet in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photo: Albertype Company / Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada / PA-031676National1888Stanley Park National Historic Site of CanadaAlso known as Stanley ParkStanley Park National Historic Site of Canada is a magnificent green oasis in the midst of the heavily built urban landscape of Vancouver.
Built over time
The busiest decade was the 1910s, with 132 of the 403 places.
38 places have no recorded construction date.
All 403 places
1906MunicipalCommerce102 Powell Street
MunicipalHomes1050 Nicola Street
1904MunicipalCommerce106 West Hastings Street
1908MunicipalHomes1062 Richards Street
1905MunicipalCommerceCentral Building108 West Hastings Street
1907MunicipalHomes1080 Richards Street
1903MunicipalCommerceGreen Door111 East Pender Street
1902MunicipalCommerce112 West Hastings Street
1907MunicipalWaldorf Rooms116 West Hastings Street
1898MunicipalCommerceFour Sisters Housing Co-operative118 Alexander Street
1910MunicipalCommercePilkington House120 Powell Street
1903MunicipalCommerce123 East Hastings Street
1907MunicipalCommunityLee Building127 East Pender Street
1923MunicipalCommunityBusiness Building135 East Pender Street
MunicipalHomes1356 West 13th Avenue
1911MunicipalHomes1386 Thurlow Street
1911MunicipalHomes1390 Thurlow Street
1921MunicipalCommunity141 East Pender Street
1912MunicipalIndustry144-146 Alexander Street
1903MunicipalCommerce150 West Hastings Street
1912MunicipalHomes1504 Graveley Street
1900MunicipalCommerceOrmidale Block151 West Hastings Street
1901MunicipalCommerceTrocadero Building152 West Hastings Street
1913MunicipalIndustry157 Alexander Street
On the map
Open the full mapThemes in Vancouver
- Main streets 245
- Brick 206
- Notable architects 126
- Heritage districts 123
- Historic storefronts 120
- Notable interiors 108
- Edwardian 101
- New lives 77
Collections are Heritage Guide’s groupings, made from each place’s register description.
Every place in Vancouver, A to Z
- 102 Powell Street1906
- 1050 Nicola Street
- 106 West Hastings Street1904
- 1062 Richards Street1908
- 108 West Hastings Street1905
- 1080 Richards Street1907
- 111 East Pender Street1903
- 112 West Hastings Street1902
- 116 West Hastings Street1907
- 118 Alexander Street1898
- 120 Powell Street1910
- 123 East Hastings Street1903
- 127 East Pender Street1907
- 135 East Pender Street1923
- 1356 West 13th Avenue
- 1386 Thurlow Street1911
- 1390 Thurlow Street1911
- 141 East Pender Street1921
- 144-146 Alexander Street1912
- 150 West Hastings Street1903
- 1504 Graveley Street1912
- 151 West Hastings Street1900
- 152 West Hastings Street1901
- 157 Alexander Street1913
- 1628 Marpole Avenue1911
- 163 East Hastings Street1901
- 166 East Pender Street1925
- 169 East Hastings Street1904
- 18 West Hastings Street1909
- 191 Alexander Street1910
- 1927 West 17th Avenue1912
- 200 East Pender Street1895
- 21 East Hastings Street1914
- 212 East 38th Avenue1912
- 218 Keefer Street1912
- 230-248 Jackson Avenue1905
- 252 East Georgia Street1910
- 27 Alexander Street
- 27 East Pender Street1910
- 291 East Georgia Street1911
- 304 West 6th Avenue1917
- 310 West Cordova Street1913
- 314-316 West Cordova Street1905
- 320 West Cordova Street1903
- 322 Cambie Street1899
- 325 Carrall Street
- 34 Powell Street
- 340 Cambie Street
- 40th Marpole Boy Scout Hall and Marpole Japanese Language School1926
- 41 Alexander Street1909
- 42 East Cordova Street1911
- 4220 St. Catherine Street1910
- 439 Helmcken Street1907
- 445 Gore Avenue1912
- 488 Carrall Street1910
- 5 West Hastings Street
- 50 East Cordova Street1912
- 509 Carrall Street1901
- 511 Union Street1890
- 52 Powell Street
- 53 West Hastings Street1909
- 54 East Cordova Street1912
- 55 Powell Street
- 550 Beatty Street
- 56 Powell Street
- 560 Beatty Street1908
- 564 Beatty Street
- 58 Powell Street1910
- 596 West 18th Avenue1908
- 633 East Hastings Street1940
- 7 West Hastings Street1900
- 80 East Pender Street1911
- 827-863 Hamilton Street
- A. MacDonald and Company Building1898
- Abrams Block1887
- Afton Hotel1912
- Aitchison Residence1894
- Alexander Residence1911
- Anderson Residence1912
- Anglo-Canadian Warehouse1911
- Arco Hotel1912
- Arlington Hotel1887
- Armoury1899
- Atlantic Furnished Rooms1906
- B.C. & Yukon Chamber of Mines Building1926
- B.C. Market Company Building1906
- B.C. Permanent Building1907
- B.C. Plate Glass and Importing Co. Building1906
- Baldwin Residence1911
- Balmoral Hotel1911
- Bank of British Columbia1889
- Bank of Commerce1914
- Bank of Nova Scotia1903
- Bayview Community School1914
- BC Collateral and Loan Buildings1902
- BC Electric Railway Company Terminal1911
- BC Mills Timber and Trading Company Houses1903
- BC Mills Timber and Trading Company Houses1903
- Beach Town House Apartments1949
- Beckett House1928
- Belmont Building1904
- Bessborough Armoury1932
- Blair House1921
- Bloedel Conservatory1967
- Bodega Hotel1900
- Boeur House and Cottage1912
- Bonaventure Apartments1911
- Boulder Hotel1890
- Bowman Block1906
- Boyd Building
- British Columbia Securities Building1911
- Brown and Company Warehouse1903
- Brunswick Pool Room1911
- Building 1, Administration Building1943
- Burns Block1899
- Burns Residence1912
- Burrard Inlet - Coal Harbour
- Byrnes Block1886
- Callister Block1891
- Cambie Heritage Boulevard
- Cambie Hotel1899
- Campbell House1927
- Canada Permanent Building1911
- Canadian National Railways / VIA Rail Station1917
- Canadian Pacific Telegraph Building1900
- Canuck Place1910
- Cardero Grocery1902
- Carnegie Centre1901
- Central City Mission1910
- Ceperley Rounsfell Building1921
- Chan House1906
- Cheng Wing Yeong Tong Society Building1911
- Chin Wing Chun Society Building1925
- Chinese Benevolent Association Building1909
- Chinese Freemasons Building1906
- Chinese School1910
- Chinese Theatre
- Chinese Times Building1902
- Chrysler Building1955
- City Hotel1905
- Clark House1888
- Clements House1899
- Clifford Residence1912
- Coastal Church1918
- Commercial Block1893
- Condie Residence1912
- Connacher Residence1895
- Cook Block1892
- Cooper Cottage1906
- CPR Roundhouse1888
- Crane Building1911
- Crawford Residence1913
- Crosby House1937
- Curry Residence1930
- Customs Examining Warehouse1911
- Dal Grauer Substation1954
- Dawson Building1911
- Des Brisay Block1912
- Desrosiers Block1901
- Dodek Residence1957
- Dominion Building1908
- Dominion Hotel1900
- Dominion Steam Laundry1910
- Dougall House1890
- Downs Residence1959
- Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and Park1986
- Dumoine Lodge1912
- Dunn Block1899
- Dunn-Miller Block1888
- Edgett Building1910
- Edward Hotel1906
- Elleston House1912
- Europe Hotel1908
- Europe Hotel Annex1886
- Evergreen Building1980
- F. Morgan Building1910
- F.R. Stewart and Company Building1910
- Federal Motor Company Building1920
- Ferguson Block1886
- Ferrera Court1912
- Filion Block1889
- First Baptist Church1911
- First Rogers Block1894
- Flack Block1898
- Fleck Brothers Building1910
- Fleming Residence1908
- Former B.C. Hydro Building1955
- Former Main Post Office1905
- Former Vancouver Law Courts National Historic Site of Canada1907
- Former Vancouver Public Library
- Fortin Building1909
- Fountain Chapel1904
- Gardner Residence1958
- Gastown Historic District National Historic Site of Canada1886
- General Wolfe Elementary School1910
- George Residence1907
- Glenesk Residence1920
- Grant Residence1904
- Granville Hotel1889
- Great War Veteran's Association Hall1926
- Great Western Hotel1902
- Greenshields Building1901
- Guru Nanak Mining and Trust Co. Commercial Building
- Hampton Hotel1912
- Hanning House
- Harbour Block1926
- Hardy Residence and Barn1911
- Harper Warehouse1912
- Harrington Residence1912
- Hartney Chambers1908
- Hastings Park
- Henderson Block1899
- Hendrix House1905
- Hickey Block1889
- Holden Building1910
- Holland Block1891
- Homer Street Arcade1912
- Horne Block1890
- Hotel Connaught1912
- Hotel Empress1912
- Hotel Georgia1926
- Hotel Metropole1910
- Hotel Stanley1906
- Hotel Winters1907
- Hudson's Bay Company Warehouse1894
- Hutchinson Block1909
- Hycroft1909
- Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall1906
- J.W. Horne Block1889
- James Northey House1913
- John Graham Residence
- John Oliver Secondary School1920
- Jones Block1890
- Kane Block1906
- Karme Residence1910
- Kelly, Douglas and Co. Warehouse1905
- Kendrick House1928
- Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara1908
- Kilpin Residence1911
- King Block1911
- Kitsilano Secondary School1911
- Laura Secord Elementary School1913
- Leckie Block1898
- Leckie Building1908
- Leeson, Dickie, Gross & Co. Warehouse1909
- Lefeuvre Residence1905
- Leslie House1888
- Lim Sai Hor Association Building1903
- Lions Gate Bridge National Historic Site of Canada1937
- Lipsett Building1906
- London Hotel
- Lord Kitchener Elementary School1914
- Lord Strathcona Community School1897
- Lord Tennyson Elementary School1909
- Lovell Block1888
- Lumbermen's Building1911
- MacMillan Bloedel Building1968
- Magee House
- Mah Society Building1913
- Malkin Building1907
- Manitoba Hotel1909
- Maple Grove Elementary School1924
- Marpole Midden National Historic Site of Canada
- Martin and Robertson Warehouse1898
- Mary McGregor Cottage1913
- May Wah Hotel1913
- McBeth and Campbell Building1929
- McClary Manufacturing Company Building1897
- McConnell Block1890
- McIntosh Block1890
- McKinnon House1914
- McLean Grocery Store1913
- McLennan and McFeely Building1906
- McLennan and McFeely Building1905
- McLuckie Warehouse1901
- McPherson Building1912
- Merchants Bank1913
- Ming Wo Building1913
- Mission House1912
- Mission to Seafarers1905
- Mitchell Block1911
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Murrin Substation1945
- Nagle Brothers Garage1930
- Nationalist League Building1920
- Neill Residence1911
- New Columbia Hotel1910
- New Fountain Hotel1899
- News-Advertiser Building1907
- Nichol House1912
- Northern Electric Company (NEC)1928
- Oppenheimer Building1886
- Opsal Steel Building1918
- Orange Hall1904
- Orpheum Theatre National Historic Site of Canada1926
- Pacific Transfer Company Building1901
- Pantages Theatre1906
- Park Grocery and Woodside Apartments1911
- Peck House1910
- Pender Hotel1913
- Pennsylvania Hotel1906
- Phoenix Hotel1908
- Pither & Leiser Building1905
- Powell Street Historic Japanese Canadian Neighbourhood (Paueru-gai)
- Prince Rupert Meat Company Building1912
- Province Building1908
- Punjabi Market
- Queen Elizabeth Elementary School1940
- Queen Elizabeth Theatre1957
- Queen Mary Elementary School1914
- R. V. Winch Building1909
- Rainier Hotel1907
- Rainsford and Co. Warehouse1923
- Ralph Block1899
- Rand House1896
- Rees & Higgins Block1889
- Regal Place1908
- Regent Hotel1913
- Riggs-Selman Building1908
- Roberts Block1908
- Roberts Building1911
- Robinson Block1889
- Roosevelt Hotel1911
- Royal Bank of Canada1907
- Royal Bank of Canada, West Hastings Branch1903
- Runkle Block1911
- Saba Residence1947
- Safeway Store1966
- Salvation Army Temple1949
- Sam Kee Building1913
- Sanderson Residence1908
- Seaforth Armoury1935
- Second Rogers Block1898
- Shamrock Hotel1912
- Shannon1915
- Shelly Building1911
- Simpson House1919
- Skinner Block1898
- Springer and Van Bramer Block1888
- St. Augustine's Anglican Church1911
- St. Clare's Convent1908
- St. Roch National Historic Site of Canada1928
- Stanley Park Japanese Canadian War Memorial1920
- Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada1888
- Stanley Park Rock Garden1911
- Storey and Campbell Warehouse1911
- Stratford Hotel1912
- Sun Ah Hotel1911
- Sun Tower1911
- Swift Canadian Packing House and Office Building1910
- Taylor Building1911
- Taylor Manor
- Templeton Building
- Templeton Secondary School1926
- Terminus Hotel1901
- The Barn
- The Cawthorn House1910
- The Earle Residence1920
- The Homer1913
- The Shirley Houses1913
- The Sundorne1911
- Thompson Rooming House1912
- Tiedemann Block1909
- Tip Top Tailors
- Tomari Gumi Japanese Community Volunteers Association
- Town and Robinson Block1889
- Trafalgar Elementary School1946
- Tunstall House1911
- Tweedale Block
- Twigge Block1898
- Union Bank of Canada1910
- Unitarian Church of Vancouver1964
- United Rooms
- University of British Columbia
- Vancouver Block1910
- Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation Offices1962
- Vancouver Chinatown
- Vancouver Club1914
- Vancouver Gas Company Warehouse1910
- Vancouver Japanese Language School and Hall1928
- Vancouver Japanese Language School National Historic Site of Canada1928
- Vancouver Labour Temple1911
- Vancouver Museum and H.R. MacMillan Space Centre1967
- Vancouver Public Safety Building1953
- Vancouver Vocational Institute1948
- Vancouver's Chinatown National Historic Site of Canada1880
- Victoria Block1908
- Victoria House1897
- Victory Square Park1924
- Villa del Lupo Restaurant
- Vogue Theatre National Historic Site of Canada1940
- Washington Court1910
- Washington Hotel1912
- Westcoast Transmission Building1968
- Western Canada Building1914
- William Dick Building1926
- Willow Residence1908
- Wilmar Residence and Coach House1924
- Wing Sang Building1889
- Wright Building1908
- Yale Hotel1888
- Yue Shan Society Buildings1889
- Yukon Mansion1910
From the Canadian Register of Historic Places, as last updated on December 12, 2025.