1815 Alberni Street

1800 block Alberni Street (north side); detail from Vancouver City Archives – Van Sc P15 – Vancouver B C – looking east from Lost Lagoon; about 1931; http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/vancouver-b-c-from-air-looking-east-from-lost-lagoon;rad.

1815 Alberni Street was on the north side of Alberni Street, just west of Denman Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 65, east half of Lot 2.

1800 Block Alberni Street – Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 7 – Coal Harbour to Barclay Street and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.

1815 Alberni Street, detail from Goad’s Atlas of Vancouver, Volume 1, Plate 48 [Denman Street to Georgia Street to Chilco Street to Haro Street]; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-48-denman-street-to-georgia-street-to-chilco-street-to-haro-street.

There are no references to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched March 20, 2019].

Vancouver directory listings from 1912 to 1920:

1912	Massey, Hugh Alexander
1913	Vacant
1914	Palmer, Arthur Barden
1915 to 1916	Harmon, Blaine Walter
1917 to 1918	Summerfield, James Thomas
1919 to 1920	Hunter, James Anderson

 

Vancouver Province, April 24, 1911, page 24, column 4.

 

Vancouver Province, May 23, 1911, page 30, column 1.

In 1917, the contents of the house were for sale.

Vancouver Sun, October 21, 1917, page 13, column 4.

Vancouver Province, February 24, 1933, page 16, column 7.

In 1951, the house was for sale, along with 1814 Georgia Street.

Vancouver Sun, October 13, 1951, page 41, column 7.

 

Vancouver Sun, March 12, 1952, page 37, column 7.

The lot later became part of the Lumière condominium development at 1863 Alberni Street.

1800 block Alberni Street (north side); source map: City of Vancouver, Vanmapp; http://vanmapp.vancouver.ca/pubvanmap_net.

 

1863 Alberni Street; Google Streets; searched March 20, 2019; image dated September 2011.