1874 Pendrell Street

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

 

 

1874 Pendrell Street was on the south side of Pendrell Street, east of Gilford Street. It appears that part of the house also had an address of 1872 Pendrell 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
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 Wilson, John Wynne
1912 Birks, Frederick Claude
1913 to 1914 Brown, Allan Thomas
1915 to 1916 Dallas, Robert Stuart Morrison
1915 Daniell, Ernest Augustus Stowey
1916 Jones, Mrs. Susan Ann
1918 to 1919 Berryman, William Stanley
1919 to 1910 Jones, Mrs. Susan Ann

 

The house later offered rental accommodations. From time to time, the contents of the house were for sale by auction.

 

Vancouver Sun, June 27, 1914, page 14, column 1.

 

Vancouver Sun, September 16, 1914, page 8, column 1.

 

Vancouver Province, May 17, 1915, page 15, column 6.

 

 

Vancouver Province, December 8, 1921, page 18, column 6.

 

Vancouver Province, December 10, 1925, page 21, column 2.

 

Vancouver Province, July 15, 1932, page 18, column 4.

 

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.