1872 Nelson Street was on the south side of Nelson Street, east of Gilford Street.
Legal Description: District Lot 185, Block 69, Lot 6.
1800 Block Nelson 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 Nelson 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 Nelson 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 Park1872 Nelson 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.
In the late 1920s, the house became a rooming house.
Vancouver Province, September 8, 1927, page 19, column 3.Vancouver Province, November 19, 1938, page 30, column 2.
In May 1959, a house-wrecking firm demolished the house.
Vancouver Sun, May 1, 1959, page 33, column 3.
In the fall of 1959, a new apartment building appeared on the site. Early advertising called it “The Impala.”
Vancouver Sun, September 18, 1959, page 35, column 3.Vancouver Sun, October 30, 1959, page 37, column 3.
By December 1959, the building was called “The Eland.”
Vancouver Province, December 19, 1959, page 41, column 5.
It later became “The Esplanade.”
“West Enders Want to Keep Trees,” Vancouver Sun, September 5, 1970, page 8, columns 2-3.1872 Nelson Street; Google Streets; searched February 6, 2019; image dated August 2018.
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