1856 Barclay Street

1860 Barclay Street and 1856 Barclay Street; detail from First Beach, BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.
1860 Barclay Street and 1856 Barclay Street; detail from First Beach, BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

 

1856 Barclay Street one of two similar houses on the south side of Barclay Street, near the middle of the block between  Denman Street and Gilford Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 68, Lot 5 (east half).

 

Detail from Insurance plan - City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1901 - Sheet 43 - Coal Harbour to Comox Street and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park
Detail from Insurance plan – City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1901 – Sheet 43 – Coal Harbour to Comox Street and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park.

 

Detail from Insurance plan - City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1903 - Sheet 43 - Coal Harbour to Comox Street and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park
Detail from Insurance plan – City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1903 – Sheet 43 – Coal Harbour to Comox Street and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park.

 

Detail from Goad's Atlas of the city of Vancouver - 1912 - Vol 1 - Plate 8 - Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park
Detail from Goad’s Atlas of the city of Vancouver – 1912 – Vol 1 – Plate 8 – Barclay Street to English Bay and Cardero Street to Stanley Park.

 

1860 Barclay Street and 1856 Barclay Street; 1913, detail from Denman Street to Haro Street to Chilco Street to Comox Street; 1972-582.29 – Plate 54; Reference code: AM1594-MAP 383-: 1972-582.29; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-54-denman-street-to-haro-street-to-chilco-street-to-comox-street [edited image].
1860 Barclay Street and 1856 Barclay Street; 1913, detail from Denman Street to Haro Street to Chilco Street to Comox Street; 1972-582.29 – Plate 54; Reference code: AM1594-MAP 383-: 1972-582.29; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-54-denman-street-to-haro-street-to-chilco-street-to-comox-street [edited image].

There is one reference to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched February 2, 2019].

 

District: Vancouver
Permit: 11247
Owner: Kirkpatrick G. H.
Architect: Twizell, Birds & Twizell
Builder: Cameron, A.
Legal Address: DL: 185 Block: 68 Sub: Resub: Lot: [E 1/2 of 5]
Date (Y-M-D): 1920-02-20
Street Number: 1856
Street Name: Barclay Street
Value: $2,000.00
Remarks: Repairs;
Reference ID: VN-1525-1526-9

 

Vancouver directory listings for 1856 Barclay Street from 1903 to 1940:

 

1903 MacDonald, John Archibald
1904 Cornish,  Reginald Percy
1906 Rae, Thomas Clouston
1907 Parrott, William Alfred
1908 Jeffrey, James
1909 to 1914 Maddison, Stephen
1915 to 1918 Roden, Howard Frederick
1918 Birmingham, John Alexander
1919 Watkins, Henry Thomas Mostyn
1920 to 1940 Kirkpatrick, Guy Hamilton

 

After 1940 the property was a rental house.

 

Vancouver Province, August 24, 1940, page 29, column 6 [selected portions of advertisement].
Vancouver Province, August 24, 1940, page 29, column 6 [selected portions of advertisement].
Vancouver Sun, May 20, 1950, page 41, column 1.
Vancouver Sun, May 20, 1950, page 41, column 1.

 

Vancouver Sun, June 2, 1962, page 37, column 4.
Vancouver Sun, June 2, 1962, page 37, column 4.

 

By 1963, the house at 1856 Barclay Street was gone, and the property was part of the site of The Coast Park apartment building at 1844 Barclay Street. Further information appears on the page for 1844 Barclay Street.