Porter’s Bungalow
So far no street views of the building have been found.
Category: architecture
The Porter’s Bungalow
At a recent event I was discussing some research I was doing on mapping Black owned restaurants, notably the very popular Chicken Inns which could be found downtown on Seymour Street all the way through east Vancouver and out on Kingsway. In the course of our conversation Michael Gordon mentioned that he had working on… Continue reading The Porter’s Bungalow
46/80 Dupont/Pender
Reading the Statements of Significance (SoS) written for Vancouver’s Chinatown can lead to a reasonable amount of teeth grinding and the occasional outburst of profanity given the number of errors, uninformed assumptions and lack of detailed research found in many of the texts. Unfortunately, these Statements live on the Historic Places website – the national… Continue reading 46/80 Dupont/Pender
A Post Card, and the Story of a Lost House
I recently received a photo album filled with snapshots of houses in a variety of Vancouver neighbourhoods. As I was flipping through the pages a post card fell on to my desk. It’s a blue tinted card showing the Eiffel Tower as viewed from the Trocadero. Nothing special, except on the back of the card… Continue reading A Post Card, and the Story of a Lost House
It’s Not Just Five Houses: The Architecture of Jan Adriaan Pauw
Given Vancouver’s crazy real estate market it’s not surprising that so many interesting and unique bits of architecture get consigned to the landfill. So it’s a delight to find that all five of the houses (and a garage) designed by Dutch-born architect Jan Adriaan Pauw during his short time in Vancouver have survived. Jan Adriaan… Continue reading It’s Not Just Five Houses: The Architecture of Jan Adriaan Pauw
What Floats to the Top of My Desk 