Bonus point for its location – before it was demolished.
It’s the second Hotel Vancouver, located at the 100-per-cent corner back in 1916 when it opened at Georgia and Granville.
One of the conditions for the construction of the third Hotel Van, two blocks west, was the demolition of this pile, and its marvellous roof garden – not to mention those amazing gargoyles, truly inspired by the Canadian West, that I had not seen before.
Thanks to Past Tense, and to the Vancouver Achives, which is doing a good job at getting its collection digitized and more accessible.
trippy!
Brilliant….gargoyles and gardens are wonderful….
We love to see people using and appreciating our holdings!
If you want to see the whole image from which this detail was taken, or see it in a larger size so you can get a better view of the facade, we’ve posted this image on our flickr stream here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vancouver-archives/5457283082/sizes/l/in/photostream/
which one is this pokemon?
If you want to know the stories of the people behind the older buildings around downtown, check out this blog.
http://buildingvancouver.wordpress.com/
thats crazy cool! looks like an entirely different culture