Heritage register
The Kelowna Heritage Register is an official listing of properties within the community that are identified as having heritage value. Search the register below.
The Heritage Register replaces the 1983 Kelowna Heritage Resources Inventory. In 1994, the Local Government Act, along with the community's growth and public interest in the conservation and revitalization of heritage buildings and sites, allowed for the creation of the Heritage Register.
More than 200 properties are currently listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register. For each listed building, a Statement of Significance has been written, indicating why the building merits inclusion. A Statement of Significance provides a description of and identifies the heritage value and character-defining elements of a historic place.
The Heritage Register identifies properties of heritage value in Kelowna and allows us to review and monitor proposed changes that would have an impact on listed heritage properties. Properties listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register have special status and may be eligible to benefit from the following incentives:
- Heritage Revitalization Agreements to vary the City’s Zoning and Subdivision, Development and Servicing Bylaws. This allows the City to consider, on a case-by-case basis, providing property owners with incentives and bonuses such as increasing density, relaxing height and setback restrictions and relaxing parking restrictions, and allowing appropriate adaptive re-uses. In return for these incentives, the property owners would agree to retain and protect the listed properties.
- Special treatment under the BC Building Code, which permits equivalencies to current building code provisions. The equivalencies allow property owners to upgrade older buildings without requiring strict code compliance, while not compromising safety standards.
The Heritage Grants Program, administered by the Central Okanagan Heritage Society is designed to promote conservation of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural heritage buildings by assisting owners with grants for a portion of the costs incurred in conservation work. Eligible work may include reroofing, window and door conservation, siding and porch conservation, work on foundation and repainting. Any owner with a property listed on the Kelowna Heritage Register is eligible to apply for this program. Interested applicants should visit the Central Okanagan Heritage Society's website for more information.
Buildings listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register can be altered and may even be demolished. However, City Council may temporarily delay the issuance of a permit to alter or demolish a listed heritage building in order to allow time for other development options to be fully explored with the property owner, City staff and the Heritage Advisory Committee.
Inclusion of a property in a Heritage Register doesn’t constitute Heritage Designation or any other form of heritage protection. Furthermore, having a building included in the Heritage Register doesn’t restrict the existing development potential of a property. The property owner is entitled to redevelop the property in accordance with the permitted uses and density of the existing zone of that property.
Requests from property owners to add buildings to or remove buildings from the Kelowna Heritage Register are reviewed by City staff. The City’s Policy & Planning Department will compile background information on the subject building and an evaluation of the building’s architectural and cultural history, context and integrity will be conducted in open meeting with the Heritage Advisory Committee. This process follows the Kelowna Heritage Register Evaluation Criteria.
Following the evaluation, the Policy & Planning Department will forward a recommendation to City Council regarding the proposed addition or removal of the building to the Register. The property owners will be advised of Council’s decision.
The Pandosy Mission Cemetery is an early burial ground located in a rural farm setting approximately 300 metres west of the restored buildings of the Oblate Mission on Benvoulin Road, and covering an area of almost 400 square metres. The level, treeless grassed terrain was farmed for a number of years, and no early headstones, grave markers or cemetery features have survived above ground. Excavations have revealed thirteen sub-surface grave features. A stone marker and plaque commemorates the cemetery, which includes the grave of Father Pandosy. The site is reached by an easement that crosses private land. The Father Pandosy Mission has been designated as a British Columbia Provincial Heritage Site.
The historic place is the deteriorating tall, wood Tobacco Barn on the Thomson Farm, a utilitarian agricultural structure built in 1926 on the property at 4193 Gordon Drive in Kelowna's Mission Sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey wood-frame residential structure, built in 1922 at 4193 Gordon Drive in Kelowna's Mission Sector.
The historic place is a single-storey wood-frame fruit-pickers' cabin, perhaps built in the 1930s and located in the rural South East Kelowna neighbourhood.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey wood Ireland Farm House, built in 1919 and located at 1858 Highland Drive in Kelowna's Glenmore neighbourhood. The address was listed in 1963 as 2048 Glenmore Drive, and in 1967 as 1120 Glenmore Drive
Black Mountain School is a one-storey wood-frame schoolhouse set on a high basement on a sloping hillside, identifiable for its gable-on-hipped roof and banked windows. The school is located outside of central Kelowna in the rural Belgo / Black Mountain neighbourhood.
The historic place is the imposing, two-storey, wood Renfrew House, built in 1913 in the Foursquare style, and located at 504 Keith Road in Kelowna's Okanagan Mission neighbourhood. Originally 7 acres, the subdivision of Lakeshore Road, Keith Road, Knowles Road, and Okanagan Lake bound the current 4.5-acre lot.
The historic place is the two storey wood frame KLO House built in 1908 in association with early development company interests, and located at 2796 KLO Road in Kelowna's South East neighbourhood.
The Pettman House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame, Cape Cod style residence. The house is located on a residential street south of the downtown core, in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood amidst houses of a similar style, scale and age.
The Lewis House is a north-facing one and one-half storey wood-frame cottage style residence identifiable for its smooth stuccoed wall treatment and stone clad foundation. The house is located on a residential street south of the downtown core, in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood amidst houses of a similar style, scale and age.
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