1040 Denman Street

1034 Denman Street; 1040 Denman Street; 1048 Denman Street; and 1054 Denman Street; 1000 Block Denman Street, east side; 1962; detail from West End from the air, Vancouver City Archives; Air P96; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/west-end-from-air.

 

1040 Denman Street was on the east side of Denman Street, between Nelson Street and Comox Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185; Block 59; north half of Lot 15.

 

Denman Street – between Nelson Street and Comox Street – 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.

 

 

1034 Denman Street; 1040 Denman Street; 1048 Denman Street; 1054 Denman Street; detail from Chas. E. Goad’s Atlas of Vancouver, Volume 1, Plate 55 [Cardero Street to Haro Street to Denman Street to Comox Street]; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/plate-55-cardero-street-to-haro-street-to-denman-street-to-comox-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 December 8, 2019].

Vancouver directory listings from 1905 to 1920.

 

1905	Henderson, Alexander
1906	Purdy, Ernest Ralph
1907 to 1910	Smith, Seth B.
1911 to 1913	Thornton, William Andrew
1914	Boorman, Harry Eustace
1915 to 1919	Butler, John Charles
1920	Pease, Frank

 

 

Vancouver Province, September 19, 1905, page 10, column 5.

 

For much of its life, the house offered rental accommodation.

 

Vancouver Province, March 19, 1913, page 24, column 3.

 

 

Vancouver Province, July 29, 1915, page 12, column 1.

 

 

Vancouver Province, April 13, 1928, page 26, column 8.

 

 

Vancouver Sun, March 15, 1938, page 19, column 8.

 

 

Vancouver Sun, November 4, 1941, page 20, column 6.

 

 

Vancouver Sun, January 21, 1943, page 15, column 8.

 

In 1951, the house was for sale.

 

Vancouver Sun, June 16, 1951, page 39, column 4.

 

 

1000 Block Denman Street, east side; 1954; detail from BO-54-211 : First Beach; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

 

 

Vancouver Sun, July 16, 1955, page 35, column 4.

 

 

1000 Block Denman Street, east side; 1957; detail from Aerial view of the West End showing the increase of apartment buildings west of Cardero Street; Vancouver City Archives; Dist P133; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/aerial-view-of-west-end-showing-increase-of-apertment-buildings-west-of-cadero-street.

 

The property later became part of the Denman Place complex.

Further information appears on the page for 1008 Denman Street.