Southeast corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street; detail from The West End looking up Pendrell Street, Vancouver, B.C. [postcard]; Valentine and Sons Publishing Company.
Southeast corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street; detail from The West End looking up Pendrell Street, Vancouver, B.C. The Coast Publishing Co.; University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections; Uno Langmann Family Collection of B.C. Photographs; UL_1666_0007; https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/langmann/items/1.0369105#p0z-4r0f:
1150 Denman Street is on the southeast corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street.
1100 block of Denman Street; south of Pendrell Street; 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.
1100 block of Denman Street; south of Pendrell Street; 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.
1100 block of Denman Street; south of Pendrell 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.
There were no directory listings for this property from 1900 to 1953, and it appears that the lot was vacant until then.
Vancouver and New Westminster City Directory, 1953, page 813 (Denman Street).
1100 Block of Denman Street, east side, south of Pendrell Street; detail from Aeroplane view of English Bay & the West End of Vancouver, B.C., about 1930; National Air Photo Library A2605-20; reproduced in Vancouver Then and Now, by Chuck Davis; Ottawa, Magic Light Publishing, 2001, page 158.
1100 Block of Denman Street, east side, south of Pendrell Street; detail from Air View Over English Bay, Beautiful Vancouver, Sun Publishing Company Limited, 1948, page 58.
Kamlo Apartment Motor Hotel
In 1953, the Kamlo Apartment Motor Hotel appeared at the corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street.
The hotel was built in two phases. The first phase was at the northeast corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street; the street address was 1120 Denman Street.
The second phase was at the southeast corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street; the street address was 1150 Denman Street.
The architect for both phases was Ross Anthony Lort (1889-1968).
Vancouver Sun, June 12, 1954, page 24, columns 7-8.
Phase One: 1120 Denman Street
The first phase of the project was at 1120 Denman Street, which opened in 1953. The 31-unit building occupied the lot that had been the site of 1102 Denman Street, 1110 Denman Street, and 1120 Denman Street. (Further information appears on the page for 1102 Denman Street.)
Vancouver Province, May 22, 1953, page 16, columns 1-3.
Vancouver Province, May 25, 1953, page 36, column 7.
Vancouver Province, June 1, 1953, page 30, column 6.
Kamlo Motor Hotel and Coffee Shop, 1959, Kamlo Apartment Motor Hotel, 1150 Denman Street, Vancouver, BC. Telephone TAtlow 7474; https://www.flickr.com/photos/45379817@N08/7513320968. (1120 Denman Street is at left rear).
In June 1966, the building at 1120 Denman Street was called the Cove Motor Hotel.
Vancouver Province, June 13, 1966, page 29, column 6.
In 1966, the building at 1150 Denman Street was still advertising itself as the Kamlo Apartments.
Vancouver Sun, November 5, 1966, page 41, column 5.
By 1967, the building at 1150 Denman Street was called the Cove Motor Hotel annex.
“Deluge Floods Streets, Homes,” Vancouver Sun, October 14, 1967, page 5, column 2.
In 1967, David Lam (later British Columbia’s lieutenant governor) lived for a time in the Cove Motor Hotel.
Vancouver Sun, July 28, 1988, page 13, column 1.
In 1974, 1150 Denman Street was still called the Cove Motor Hotel.
Vancouver Sun, January 25, 1974, page 54, column 4.
By the late 1970s, the building at 1150 Denman Street was called the English Bay Hotel.
Vancouver Sun, August 15, 1978, page 44, column 7.
The English Bay Hotel still stands at the corner of Denman Street and Pendrell Street.
English Bay Hotel; 1150 Denman Street; Google Streets; searched December 24, 2019; image dated May 2012.
English Bay Hotel; 1150 Denman Street; Google Streets; searched December 24, 2019; image dated May 2019.
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