Holly Lodge, 1210 Jervis Street

Holly Lodge, Contract Record, June 1, 1910, volume 24, number 24, page 40; https://archive.org/details/contractrecordv24p01/page/n1345/mode/1up.
Holly Lodge, entrance, detail from Holly Lodge Apartments at 1210 Jervis Street, July 1975; Vancouver City Archives, CVA 780-426; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/holly-lodge-apartments-at-1210-jervis-street.

Holly Lodge is a six storey apartment building at the southeast corner of Jervis Street and Davie Street. The street address is currently 1210 Jervis Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185; Block 38; Lots 6 and 7.

Holly Lodge, 1210 Jervis Street, detail from Goad’s Atlas of Vancouver, plate 66; Vancouver City Archives, 1972-582.41; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-66-bute-street-to-comox-street-to-broughton-street-to-burnaby-street.

In 1901 and 1903 the property was vacant.

Site of Holly Lodge; Insurance plan of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, July 1897, revised June 1901, sheet 44; Library and Archives Canada, Reference: R6990-151-5-E, Box number: 2000228786, 2000712686; https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3807867.
Site of Holly Lodge; Insurance plan of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, July 1897, revised June 1903, sheet 44; Library and Archives Canada, Reference: R6990-153-9-E, Box number: 2000761633; https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=FonAndCol&IdNumber=3807904.

The San Francisco architectural firm of Wright, Rushforth and Cahill was responsible for the design of Holly Lodge. (Most sources have concluded that Bernard Cahill (1866-1944) was the primary designer of Holly Lodge.)

In late 1909 the firm established a branch in Vancouver.

Saturday Sunset (Vancouver, British Columbia), December 4, 1909, page 16, column 1.

On April 20, 1910 Wright, Rushforth and Cahill obtained a permit to build an apartment building at the corner of Jervis Street and Davie Street.

District:Vancouver
Permit:
Owner:Pacific Investment Corp., Ltd. [Holly Lodge]
Architect:Wright, Rushforth & Cahill [ABE]
Builder:Wright, Rushforth & Cahill [ABE]
Legal Address:DL: 185 Block: 38 Sub: Resub: Lot: 6 & 7
Date (Y-M-D):1910-04-20
Street Number:1214 [1210]
Street Name:Jervis Street & Davie Street
Value:$100,000.00
Remarks:Brick apartment house [Holly Lodge]
Reference ID:VN-3100-3101-106
Vancouver Building Permits, Heritage Vancouver; http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/. Searched July 26, 2022.

In April 1910 the Vancouver Daily World published an article on the proposed new apartment building.

Vancouver Daily World, April 23, 1910, page 35, columns 1-4.
Vancouver Daily World, April 23, 1910, page 35 columns 1-4.
Contract Record, April 27, 1910, volume 24, number 17, page 29, column 3; https://archive.org/details/contractrecordv24p01/page/n998/mode/1up.

Wolverton and Company Limited advertised apartments for rent at Holly Lodge.

Vancouver Province, July 18, 1911, page 16, column 5.
Holly Lodge, Jervis and Davie, Vancouver, B.C., Bullen-Lamb Photo; University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs. UL_1624_03_0237; https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/langmann/items/1.0361326.
“Holly Lodge, West End,” British Columbia Archives, Item D-09192; https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/holly-lodge-west-end.
Holly Lodge, about 1910 to 1920; Vancouver Public Library; VPL Accession Number 55233.
Holly Lodge, 1953; detail from Davie St. Apartments, Vancouver, Vintage Air Photos 53-27: https://vintageairphotos.com/53-27/.

The building is still on the site in 2022.

Holly Lodge, Jervis Street and Davie Street, looking east from Jervis Street, Vancouver, British Columbia; Google Maps 3D, searched July 26, 2022.

Sources

Holly Lodge, Old Vancouver, December 15, 2016; https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2016/12/15/old-vancouver-the-holly-lodge/.

Vintage Vancouver: The Holly Lodge; Ginge’s Histrionics, January 18, 2010; http://gingeshistrionics.blogspot.com/2010/01/vintage-vancouver-holly-lodge.html,

Holly Lodge, Heritage Site Finder, Vancouver Heritage Foundation; https://www.heritagesitefinder.ca/location/1210-jervis-st-vancouver-bc/.

Holly Lodge – Davie Street; https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/holly-lodge-davie-street.

1210 Jervis Street, Vancouver, B.C. [Holly Lodge Apartments], Vancouver City Archives, File AP-0078; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/1210-jervis-street-5.

Wright, George Alexander (1852-1918), Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950; http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/2212: “Holly Lodge Apartments, Jervis Street at Burnaby Street, 1910 (Vancouver Daily World, 23 April 1910, Section Three, p. 1, illus. & descrip.; C.R., xxiv, 1 June 1910, 40, illus. & descrip.; 8 June 1910, 27; Vancouver City Directory, 1911, advert. for Wright, Rushforth & Cahill, 174; Const. [Toronto], vi, March 1913, 37, illus. in advert.; Pacific Coast Architect [San Francisco], vii, May 1914, 109, illus.; Vancouver Heritage Inventory – Summary Report, 1986, 28, illus.; dwgs. at Vancouver City Archives).”

Bernard Cahill (1866-1944); University of Berkeley, Environmental Design; https://archives.ced.berkeley.edu/collections/cahill-bernard.

Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill (Architect); Pacific Coast Architecture Database; https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/1936/.

Bernard J. S. Cahill, Prabook; https://prabook.com/web/bernard.cahill/1345387.

Records of Bernard J. S. Cahill, ca. 1889-1938; http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf029001hc/entire_text/.

835 Beatty Street; Changing Vancouver; https://changingvancouver.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/835-beatty-street/.  Includes information on Wright, Rushforth and Cahill.