1800 Haro Street

1800 Haro Street – detail from City of Vancouver Archives – CVA 677-242 – Vancouver Lawn Tennis Club – finals international – Tyler and Ballinger vs. Payne and Armstrong; http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/vancouver-lawn-tennis-club-finals-international-tyler-and-ballinger-vs-payne-and-armstrong;rad

1800 Haro Street – 1925 – detail from City of Vancouver Archives CVA 357-8 – Haro Street (corner Denman Street); http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/uploads/r/null/4/6/468837/2b65550d-e661-4d9e-9079-13b1e17b22df-A47219.jpg

1800 Haro Street was on the southwest corner of Haro Street and Denman Street.

Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 67, north half of Lot 1.

1800 Block Haro Street – 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.

 

1800 Block Haro Street – 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.

 

1800 Block Haro 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.

 

1800 Haro Street [listed as 1802 Haro Street]; 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.

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 May 15, 2019].

 

District:	Vancouver
Permit:
Owner:	Patton, J. K.
Architect:	Whiteway, W. T.
Builder:	Tardiff, P. (cont.)
Legal Address:	DL: 185 Block: 67 Sub: Resub: Lot: 1 [N 1/2]
Date (Y-M-D):	1901-08-06
Street Number:	[1800 or 1802]
Street Name:	Haro Street & Denman Street
Value:	$3,000.00
Remarks:	Frame dwelling
Reference ID:	VN-8280-8281-9

 

Vancouver directory listings from 1902 to 1924:

 

1902 to 1903 (probably 1899 to 1901 also)	Patton, John Killips
1904 to 1924	Phelan, John Theodore

 

In November 1924, the contents of the house were for sale by auction.

 

Vancouver Province, November 8, 1924, page 33, column 2.

 

In 1925, the house was for sale.

 

Vancouver Province, June 27, 1925, page 16, column 3.

 

The house continued to offer rental accommodation.

 

Vancouver Province, October 9, 1926, page 15, column 2.

 

Vancouver Province, September 22, 1929, page 28, column 4.

 

In April 1930, the contents of the house were for sale by auction.

 

Vancouver Sun, April 5, 1930, page 21, column 4.

 

In 1936, a realtor advertised the house as a “business property.”

 

Vancouver Province, July 25, 1936, page 22, column 7.

 

Vancouver Province, September 19, 1936, page 21, column 5.

 

The house last appeared in the Vancouver directories in 1936. It was vacant.

By the early 1940s, a one-storey commercial building was on the site.

 

Southwest corner of Denman Street and Haro Street, 1950, detail from Youngsters parading on Denman Street near Bay Theatre; Vancouver City Archives, CVA 392-1788; https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/nst-5657.

 

Southwest corner of Haro Street and Denman Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

 

Commercial businesses still occupy the site in 2019.

 

Southwest corner of Haro Street and Denman Street; Google Streets, searched March 21, 2019; image dated October 2018.