Hotel Devonshire, a postcard by Edward Goodall. Here’s an archival photo almost from the same vantage point, or how it would have appeared from the old Hotel Vancouver. According to Emporis, construction began in 1923 and was completed in 1924; the building was designed by the prestigious McCarter & Nairne Partners. More facts:
- Demolished on July 5, 1981 at 7:05 a.m. with 100 kilograms of dynamite, along with the famous Cave nightclub, to make way for the HSBC Building.
- Opened as an apartment building for boarders, named The Devonshire Apartment Hotel.
CBC Vancouver redevelopment brochure, published circa 2006 showing an artist’s conception of the project. The project was led by Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden Architects (now known as DIALOG) and the team of architects included Joost Bakker, Alan Boniface, Kate Gerson, Deryk Whitehead, Bruce Haden, Eric Stedman, Tina Hubert, Teresa Lowe, Mona Tsui, Roland Küpfer, Ouri Scott, Ali Stiles. I’m not certain if one of those members created these renderings, as they are unsigned in the brochure.
-Viaducts = Parks + submission #71 by DIALOG, PWL Partnership Landscape Architects, Beasley & Associates & Green Associatesin the City of Vancouver’s Re:Connect design competition regarding the future of the Georgia Street Viaducts. This entry was one of four selected as winners of the category Visualizing the Viaducts; all of the winners of the competition can be seen here.
A lost mural of Vancouver, this view of Stanley Park was painted on the side of the Chapel at Stanley Park, at the end of Chilco Street between Alberni and W Georgia. From Luis Curran’s photograph on pbase believed to be taken November 6, 2005:
This mural was originally commissioned by the architect to answer the complaints of those who thought views of Stanley Park would be destroyed by his building on the corner. A new building has since been built right next to it so, inevitably, the mural is now lost!
I’m not certain who the artist was, or even who the architect was for that matter, but surely someone will know! The second image of the site before construction is from the RE/MAX Crest Realty (Westside) site of real estate agents Les Twarog and Sonja Pederson, possibly circa 2001? Any additional info? Comments welcome!
Cross-posted with additional text to VancouverIsAwesome.com
Update! Thanks to a comment at VIAwesome, the artist has been identified as Dana Irving! The work is titled Stanley Lodge and she did the painting in 1995. Thanks for the comment, Mike!
Untitled, Orville Fisher’s mural from 1957 featuring the figure of Mercury, god of messages and glad tidings, inside the post office building at 349 West Georgia Street, by the Homer Street entrance. Technically, this might not actually be depicting Vancouver, but due to the fact that the artist was a Vancouverite and this mural is one of the city’s great under-appreciated murals, I am including it without any hesitation.
The mural is captioned: “Transporting the Royal Mails by land, sea, and air in British Columbia” and is viewable from the street through a double set of glass doors. Also mentioned in John Steil’s book Public Art in Vancouver: Angels Among Lions: “The mural shows the evolution of mail delivery, from stagecoaches to ships, from biplanes to helicopters (there is a landing pad on the roof!).” Orville Fisher studied at the Vancouver School of Art, painted murals with E J Hughes and Paul Goranson for the Golden Gate International Exposition, as well as a lost series of murals at First United Church in Chinatown. He went on to become a respected WWII documentary artist, and later he taught at the Vancouver School of Art.
Egg Mart, Chinatown, a very photo-realistic painting from 2011 submitted by Alison Fleming. 269 E Georgia Street, to be exact. We normally don’t feature photographic works here on Illustrated Vancouver, but if you look closely enough you will see this is indeed a painting. Oil on gessoed wood, to be exact, according to her website. Thanks, Alison!
The Edge of Wilderness, acrylic on canvas (48 x 60 inches) by Tom Carter, Celebrating the City of Vancouver’s 125th anniversary at the Baron Gallery in Gastown with a show of paintings of 1950’s Vancouver, May 11-Aug 27, 2011.
B.C. Residences at Vancouver, a lithograph print from the Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana based on a photo by JA Brock and Co., currently in the Library and Archives Canada. Featuring Mr. Abbott’s and Mr. Ferguson’s houses, exact location unknown, no doubt now replaced by a condo or two.
Update: Thanks to the comment from ChangingCity below, we’ve just learned this was at the corner of Jervis and West Georgia St. Furthermore, as per the comment below, though Mr Ferguson’s house (right) was lost many years ago, Mr Abbott’s house (left) is still there - albeit heavily ‘restored’ as part of the Residences on Georgia built in 1998. More about A G Ferguson on the BuildingVancouver blog, and more about Mr Abbott on this flickr photo page (hint: think Abbott Street!).
Update again! I just learned this lithograph appeared in the Portland magazine, The West Shore exactly as above in the June, 1887 issue. This issue is in the Chung Collection, and lots more issues are on microfilm at UBC Koerner Library, microforms storage (Floor 2) AW1 .R5326 (not on the open shelf; you need to ask for it to be retrieved from storage) AND at the VPL.
The Bay, from an ad on page XLVIII in The Gold Stripe, Volume 1.
The Hudson’s Bay Company was founded on May 2nd, 1670, with the granting of the Royal Charter by King Charles II to “The Governor and Company of Adventurers Trading into Hudson Bay.” [link]
Inside Ileta’s sketchbook, featuring an Olympic wrap on Georgia Street, Aree’s Hot Dawg House on Broadway between Pine and Burrard, and street musicians, via her blog, Ileta’s Art. She writes:
This is my current sketchbook. I used the Fabriano sketchbook which is pretty awesome in terms of paper but does not lay flat. These are all watercolours (with some watercolour pencils) and pen and ink. I have a couple of sketches from the winter games preparations but had twisted my ankle so wasn’t up to walking about that month. Most of these sketches are in Metro Vancouver, except for Whistler. I just love my beautiful province. I can’t get over it! Hope to see more and more sketchers about town.
A postcard of the second Hotel Vancouver, which was built in 1916 and was torn down in 1949, via John Mackie’s postcard gallery at the Vancouver Sun. (I’m resisting the urge to post photographs of Vancouver in this stream, but this hand-coloured postcard looks more like a photographically-assisted rendering. Exact same angle also previously seen here.)
![The Bay, from an ad on page XLVIII in The Gold Stripe, Volume 1.
The Hudson’s Bay Company was founded on May 2nd, 1670, with the granting of the Royal Charter by King Charles II to “The Governor and Company of Adventurers Trading into Hudson Bay.” [link]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh09slqt4g1qc7pjjo1_1280.jpg)
