Street Address

1012 Nelson Street

Architect

Twizell & Twizell

Twizell, Robert

Twizell, George

Dates From

1933

Material Type

building

Heritage Designation

Heritage Building, Municipal Designation

Source

Vancouver Historical Society program for Annual Incorporation Day Dinner, Apr 6, 1981.

List of Heritage Buildings in Vancouver (1979), Schedule A.

Vancouver Council Meeting Minutes, 1974, p. 5448-52, designated as historic building (R 352.071 V22cm).

Province: Dec 6, 1974, p. 6, 21 buildings get protection of city council.

Province: Jan. 10, 1982, Rogers was keen practitioner ... by Chuck Davis, ill.

Vancouver City Planning Dept., Vancouver's Heritage, Vol. I, p. 42-43, Vancouver's heritage: 22 buildings and 2 historic areas (R 720.9711 V224v).

Vancouver City Planning Dept., Vancouver Heritage Inventory, Feb 1994.

Vancouver Sun: Feb. 11, 2000, p. B1, Church tower plans ordered revisited.

Courier: March 1, 2000, p. 10, Church wants to build for survival.

Westender, March 2-8, 2000, p. 7, Old church has big real estate plans, ill.

Notes

Legal description: D.L. 185, Blk. 8.

United Church. Style is Gothic influenced.

Plan (2000) for a 19 or 21-storey tower to be built behind the church on the site of the Christian Education Centre (built 1960's). Design modeled on the First Methodist Church in Chicago, by Kirkor Architects.

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