1893 Beach Avenue

1897 Beach Avenue and 1893 Beach Avenue; detail from The Pier, English Bay, Vancouver, B.C.; 1909; https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/langmann/items/1.0371414#p0z2r0f:pier.

1893 Beach Avenue was a small one-storey building on the north side of Beach Avenue, just east of Gilford Street.

Legal Description: District Lot: 185; Block 71; south half of Lot 7.

1897 Beach Avenue, 1893 Beach Avenue, 1881 Beach Avenue; detail from Insurance plan – City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1901 – Sheet 45 – Comox Street to English Bay and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park.

1897 Beach Avenue, 1893 Beach Avenue, 1883 Beach Avenue, 1881 Beach Avenue; detail from Insurance plan – City of Vancouver, July 1897, revised June 1903 – Sheet 45 – Comox Street to English Bay and Bidwell Street to Stanley Park.

Vancouver directory listings from 1905 to 1912.

1905	Alexander, James William
1906	Jones, Arthur Augustus
1907	Trelawny, John Francis Fellowes
1908	Foster, Thomas Frederick
1909	Osborne, William Johnson Kerr
1910	Mecredy, John Knox
1911	O’Coffey, Frank L.
1912	Pace, Herbert

Vancouver Province, May 4, 1904, page 10, column 6.

Vancouver Sun, February 17, 1912, page 9, column 1.

By 1912, the house was gone, and the lot was the site of Sylvia Court (later called the Sylvia Hotel).

1800 Block Beach Avenue – 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.

Sylvia Court apartments; 1913; detail from Denman Street to Comox Street to Stanley Park boundary to English Bay; Reference code – 1972-582-38 – Plate 63; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-63-denman-street-to-comox-street-to-stanley-park-boundary-to-english-bay.

Sylvia Court, detail from An August day at English Bay, Vancouver B.C., about 1914, Vancouver City Archives, Be P144.2; http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/august-day-at-english-bay-vancouver-b-c-2.