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Dougall House

306 Abbott Street, Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique, V6B, Canada

Reconnu formellement en: 2003/01/14

Exterior view of the Dougall House, 2004; City of Vancouver, 2004
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Autre nom(s)

Dougall House
Winsome Rooms
Devon Rooms

Liens et documents

Date(s) de construction

1890/01/01

Inscrit au répertoire canadien: 2005/04/01

Énoncé d'importance

Description du lieu patrimonial

The Dougall House is a three-storey, late Victorian commercial and residential building located on the southeast corner of Abbott and West Cordova Streets in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver.

Valeur patrimoniale

The heritage value of the Dougall House lies in the historic relationship between this area and the economy of early Vancouver. It is associated with Gastown's history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a mixed-use district and the centre for Vancouver's trade and manufacturing. When the City of Vancouver became the entrepot between the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and trans-Pacific shipping in 1887, the hub of this international commercial activity was Gastown.

Built in 1890 by Vancouver architect R. Mackay Fripp, the building is an example of late Victorian commercial development. Constructed of masonry with stone detailing, it signified the permanence of fire-resistant building materials and heralded a confidence in the rebuilt city. Architectural elements of this building resemble those found elsewhere in Gastown; the open parapet is similar to the Boulder Hotel at 1 West Cordova Street.

The Dougall House, like many other buildings in Gastown, served a combined function of providing lodging on the upper floors and commercial space on the ground floor, contributing to the bustling street-level retail businesses in the area. The Dougall House catered to the commercial traveler and tourist, billing the establishment as a 'new building with all appliances for safety, comfort, and luxury of tourists and travelers.' Around 1910, rooms catered to the population of loggers, cannery workers, and fishermen, which indicates that the fashionable trade had left this part of Gastown.

Significant tenants included Dr. H.E. Langis, physician, and Dr. W.J. McGuigan, physician and coroner, who kept offices in the building between 1893 and 1909. McGuigan was Vancouver Mayor in 1904, and served as medical superintendent for the CPR in Vancouver.

Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program

Éléments caractéristiques

The key elements which define the heritage character of the Dougall House include:
- the relationship between this building and its neighbours within the Gastown historic district
- its siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- retail use of main floor, as indicated by the fenestration and storefronts
- corner location with splayed entrance
- late Victorian architectural elements, including pilasters dividing the bays of alternating rusticated stone and smooth brickwork, moulded brackets below a horizontal string course at the base of the open balustered rusticated stone parapet; pattern of fenestration (one-over-one double-hung wood sash), and moulded recessed brickwork spandrels between upper storey windows

Reconnaissance

Juridiction

Colombie-Britannique

Autorité de reconnaissance

Ville de Vancouver

Loi habilitante

Vancouver Charter, art.593

Type de reconnaissance

Désignation patrimoniale

Date de reconnaissance

2003/01/14

Données sur l'histoire

Date(s) importantes

s/o

Thème - catégorie et type

Économies en développement
Commerce et affaires

Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction

Actuelle

Historique

Commerce / Services commerciaux
Hôtel, motel ou auberge
Commerce / Services commerciaux
Établissement de restauration ou de débit de boissons

Architecte / Concepteur

R. Mackay Fripp

Constructeur

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Informations supplémentaires

Emplacement de la documentation

City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program

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Identificateur féd./prov./terr.

DhRs-481

Statut

Édité

Inscriptions associées

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