Heritage House Tour
There is more than one way to call heritage home in the city of Vancouver. Join Vancouver Heritage Foundation on Sunday June 7th as they offer a chance to tour inside 9 locations, 14 homes offering 40 years of history. The 2015 Heritage House Tour will expand the definition of heritage home to include seven apartments in two buildings. We visit the Queen Charlotte Apartments at the heart of Vancouver’s West End, a late 1920s Art Deco building built as a luxury hotel/apartment with live-in manageress, housekeeping services and the latest in home conveniences. It is also home to one of only two remaining cage elevators in the province of BC.
You will also see three units in the recent conversion of a B.C.Telephone warehouse in Southeast False Creek. Now called “The Exchange” the original 1913 brick and timber industrial building has become contemporary loft-style apartments more usually found in Gastown or Yaletown. With original exposed brick, restored wood windows and the largest first-growth wood beams you’re likely to see, this reclaimed building is part of the shift from industrial land to up-and-coming neighbourhood.
The tour will also open seven private heritage and character homes varying from charming and cozy with ties to the PNE, to an award-winning restoration of a West End masterpiece. For more information and tickets, please visit the Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s website.