Overview
Address
1060 Granville St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Downtown
type
Commercial
Description
The Vogue Hotel (originally the Princess Rooms) was designed by Parr and Fee in 1910. Parr and Fee was an architectural partnership that lasted from 1899 to 1912.
The Princess Rooms were constructed by M.C. Griffith for C.W. Ford, 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 façade, 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 businesses on the street.
Source
Changing Vancouver blog, VPL Special Photographs Collection, Historical and Heritage Assessment document from the Environment Assessment Rapid Transit Project
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