Hunter Brothers Block
City of Vancouver
Heritage Building
Hunter Brothers Block
Builder: Hunter Brothers
This is one of the last surviving original Granville Street buildings from the 1890s. It was built in 1892 by contractors Samuel and Thomas Hunter, on land owned by Samuel Knox Twigge, a local ‘gentleman’. It was designed in the common commercial architectural style of the time, Victorian Italianate. The building features cast iron store-front frames, red brick cladding with contrasting grey-green sandstone trim, and a projecting sheet metal cornice. The upper floor apartments were first known as the Seattle Rooms, then the Bon Ton Rooms, and the Eula Rooms. For many years the façade had been disguised by modern steel cladding. The historic features were rediscovered and, in 2004, incorporated into a new mixed use redevelopment that extended north to Dunsmuir Street.
Photo of the building: http://imgur.com/BIlIncf
Attribution: Jennie Eggleston