Overview
Address
57 W Cordova St, Vancouver BC
Neighbourhood
Gastown
type
Commercial
Protection & Recognition
- M: Municipal Protection
Description
Other names: Fortin Hotel, The Rob Roy Hotel, and the Travellers’ Hotel.
The Fortin Building is a four storey plus lower level masonry Edwardian era hotel building built in 1909. It was an early Gastown rooming house.
The building was designed by the prominent architectural firm of George William Grant (1852-1925) and Alexander Ernest Henderson (1872-1927). The Fortin Building is a fine example of Edwardian era design, illustrating how popular architectural styles were used by the hotel business to market a progressive image.
The Fortin Building shared a party wall with the adjacent building to the west, the Sullivan Block. When the Sullivan Block was demolished, the party wall, and the front structural pier with its granite blocks, brick and cornice detailing was left in place and survives today as a remnant feature from this earlier building.
Source
Historic Places Canada
More information
http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=2517
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