Federal Motor Company Building

The former Federal Motor Company showroom and Chapman’s Garage was constructed in 1920. It is a very early example for Vancouver of this modern industrial / commercial style, in which the building is reduced solely to its functional elements.

Elements include extensive curtain walling by way of large windows, an expressed reinforced concrete structure, undecorated materials, and a design to accommodate the then new technology of motor vehicles.

The building is the most significant survivor of a group of otherwise undistinguished automotive workshops built on the west side of the 1200-block of Seymour Street in the early twentieth century.

Source

City of Vancouver

More information

http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20041021/ph5.htm