Overview
Address
1044-1048 Granville St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Downtown
type
Commercial
Description
The Regal Hotel (originally the Albany Rooms) was designed by Parr and Fee in 1910. Parr and Fee was an architectural partnership that lasted from 1899 to 1912.
The Albany Rooms were constructed by Peter Tardiff for W.A. Clark, and would have cost around $50,000 to build. The design of the Hotel is almost identical to Parr and Fee’s other Single Room Occupancy buildings in the area – stone facade, center-hung windows and decorative cornices.
Single Room Occupancy hotels (or SROs) were exceptionally common on Granville Street – records suggest that for a time there were as many SROs as commercial spaces on the street. Today there are very few, and they are often centers of controversy for Vancouver’s solutions to low-income housing.
Source
Changing Vancouver blog
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