Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel is a late Victorian hotel constructed of brick constructed in 1889. The Grand Hotel is also significant as an early surviving work by prolific American-born architect Noble Stonestreet Hoffar (1843-1907). Hoffar designed many of the city’s largest and most substantial Victorian Italianate structures.

The hotel provided both short and long-term lodging, serving primarily those who worked in the seasonal resource trades such as fishing and logging.

The building’s original name, the Granville Hotel, celebrated its location in the Old Granville Townsite. When the hotel was expanded with a rear addition in 1903-04, its name was changed to the Grand Hotel, an indication of how the settlement of Granville had been absorbed into the City of Vancouver.

Source

City of Vancouver

More information

http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20050315ph/ph4.htm