1872 Pendrell Street

1872  Pendrell Street and 1874 Pendrell Street; detail from First Beach, 1954; BO-54-211; http://vintageairphotos.com/bo-54-211/.

 

1872 Pendrell Street was on the south side of Pendrell Street, east of Gilford Street.

Legal Description: District Lot: 185; Block: 71; northeast portion of Lot 6.

 

1800 Block 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.

 

1876 Pendrell Street, 1874 Pendrell Street, 1872 Pendrell Street, 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.

 

There is one potential reference to this property in Heritage Vancouver Society’s database of historic building permits: http://permits.heritagevancouver.org/index.php?cID=1 [searched September 26, 2019]. However, the street address is 1870 Pendrell Street rather than 1872 Pendrell Street or 1874 Pendrell Street.

 

District:	Vancouver
Permit:
Owner:	Sharpe, A. M.
Architect:	Sharpe, A. M.
Builder:	Sharpe, A. M.
Legal Address:	DL: 185 Block: 71 Sub: Resub: Lot: 6
Date (Y-M-D):	1910-03-14
Street Number:	1870
Street Name:	Pendrell Street
Value:	$2,500.00
Remarks:	Frame d house
Reference ID:	VN-3100-3101-1316

 

Vancouver directories from 1911 to 1920.

 

1911	Vacant (Occupied by 1912)
1912 to 1913	Clarke, Walter William
1914	Kaltenbach, John
1915 to 1916	Hutton, Ernest Weardale
1917 to 1919	Gagen, Henry
1920	Thomson, Eric

 

The house offered rental accommodations until the late 1950s.

 

Calgary Herald, June 6, 1931, page 17, column 3.

 

 

Vancouver Province, May 20, 1939, page 30, column 2.

 

Vancouver Sun, June 10, 1959, page 46, column 2.

 

The property later became part of the Sylvia Hotel complex.

 

1800 Block Pendrell Street (south side); source: Vanmapp, City of Vancouver; http://vanmapp.vancouver.ca/pubvanmap_net/default.aspx. [Includes 1912 Goad’s map of Vancouver and property addresses in 2019.]

 

Rear of Sylvia Hotel; former site of 1872 Pendrell Street, 1874 Pendrell Street, and 1876 Pendrell Street; Google Streets; searched September 26, 2019; image dated May 2012.