Overview
Address
102-108 Water St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Gastown
type
Removed
Protection & Recognition
- M: Municipal Protection
Description
At the time of its construction in 1907, the Hotel Winters was considered one of the better hotels in the city, with many modern conveniences including telephones, hot running water, and its own bar. It had 120 luxuriously appointed rooms; 50 of them had private baths.
William Tuff Whiteway, one of the city’s leading architects at the time, designed the large four-storey Edwardian era masonry hotel for Mrs. Alice M. Winters. In the years following the Klondike Gold Rush, Vancouver experienced steady growth, and hotels such as this illustrate the increased pressure to provide both short and long-term accommodations for seasonal workers in the fishing and logging trades.
The upper floors of Winters Hotel were a Single Room Occupancy residence for low-income residents, and the street level is occupied with various stores and a restaurant before in 2022, a fire destroyed the building. It was removed from the Heritage Register the same year.
Source
City of Vancouver, Canada's Historic Places, Gastown.Org, Changing Vancouver Blog
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