United Rooms

Built as the Harbour Rooms in about 1912, this four-storey building was used for residential accommodation above, and retail on the ground floor. The date of construction coincides with Vancouver’s pre-World War I building boom, and with significant redevelopment of the city’s low cost housing.

Renamed the United Rooms sometime between 1925-1950, the upper floors continue to be used as ‘single room occupancy’ accommodation.

The building is of value for demonstrating a pattern of use that was common in this part of Gastown, where numerous similar small hotels were geared to serving the itinerant population of male resource workers.

Source

Canada's Historic Places

More information

http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7910