1641 Dunbar St

This elaborate Craftsman-style house was built in 1912, at the height of Vancouver’s building boom, in the north-east corner of the stylish new suburb of Kitsilano. Its builder, S.W. Hopper, was also responsible for constructing many of the handsomely detailed houses in the immediate vicinity.

Located on the north-east corner of the Dunbar Street and 1st Avenue West intersection, 1641 Dunbar Street is at the centre of four blocks which together have fourteen buildings recognized for their heritage merits by the Vancouver Heritage Register (two are “A”, seven are “B”-, and five are “C”- classified structures). 1641 Dunbar Street is listed in the “B” category on the Heritage Register.

Across the street at 1711 Dunbar Street is a beech tree which is one of just thirty-three “Tree Landscape Resources” in the city documented in the Vancouver Heritage Register.

A side-gabled sub-type of the Craftsman-styled house, it features a stone foundation, a large full-front porch under the main roof, twin gabled dormers, distinctive supporting columns with dentils, triangular knee braces under the gable with decorative treatments, and fenestration which includes coloured glass and a diversity of window shapes and sizes. Its high-profile location on a corner lot enables the appreciation of its design from many vantage points.

In 1999 it was repainted a historical colour scheme with the assistance of a VHF True Colours grant.

Source

City of Vancouver, VHF Files

More information

http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/991005/PH4.HTM