Overview
Address
1-15 E Hastings St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Downtown
type
Commercial
Protection & Recognition
- M: Municipal Protection
Description
The Templeton Building is a two-storey masonry Edwardian commercial building built in 1895.
William Templeton was a grocer from Ontario, and was Vancouver’s sixth mayor. He built the first brick building in Vancouver on this site immediately after The Great Fire.
The existing building was put up a decade later and shows an effort to dress up the plain brickwork with rugged stone trim, creating a richly textured façade. An interesting feature is that there are pilasters decorating the Carrall Street side of the building but not that on Hastings, indicating that the former was the more important thoroughfare in the 1890s.
Source
Historic Map Guide Carrall St Greenway (VHF)
More information
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=8270
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