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 Haldane House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame Craftsman influenced bungalow, identifiable by its large shed roof dormer and inset entrance. The house is situated mid-block on a residential street with homes of a similar scale and age, in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood.
The Okanagan Mission Community Hall is a large, wood-frame structure distinguished by its gambrel roof and barn-like form. The hall is located in Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood, well removed from Kelowna's central core, at the intersection of Lakeshore Road and DeHart Road.
The historic place is the two-storey, wood-frame W.D. Walker House, a Foursquare residence built in 1904 and located at 4464 Lakeshore Road in Kelowna's Okanagan Mission neighbourhood.
The historic place is the half-timbered wood-and-stucco St. Andrew's Anglican Church, built in 1910-11 in the Tudor Revival style, and located at 4619 Lakeshore Road in Kelowna's Mission Sector.
The historic place is the rural, 2 storey gambrel rafted barn, built around 1927 at 4639 Lakeshore Road, in Kelowna's Mission Sector. The barn is closely associated to the Surtees House on the same property
The historic place is the rural, 1.5-storey wood-frame Surtees House, built around 1912 at 4639 Lakeshore Road, in Kelowna's Mission Sector. The Surtees House is closely associated to the dairy barn on the same property.
The Second Mallam House is a large, two-storey wood-frame Edwardian era farm house, located in the rural Okanagan Mission area of Kelowna. This house is situated on a large east sloping site, with numerous mature trees and a broad lawn overlooking Lake Okanagan.
The Davies House is a two-storey, wood-frame Edwardian era residence with a front gabled roof. The house is located mid-block on a steeply sloping site on a short residential street in Kelowna's Glenmore neighbourhood. With its west facing aspect and location on a sloped site, this house has good distant views to the west.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey wood-frame L. E. Taylor House, built in 1924, and located at 1551 Lambert Avenue in Kelowna's Glenmore neighbourhood.
The Kincaid Residence is a front-gable house that is believed to have been built between 1908-1912 by James Kincaid. The property is within the residential South Central neighbourhood and is located between Ethel Street to the west and Gordon Drive to the east.
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