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 historic place is the single-storey wood-sided Brigadier Angle Armoury, built in 1904 with formal massing, and located at 720 Lawrence Avenue, in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood. The Women's Institute next door on Lawrence Avenue and the brick school across the street are closely associated with the historic place, but do not comprise part of it.
The Meikle House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame Edwardian era residence, distinguished by its steep pitched gambrel roof. The house is located mid-block on the south side of Lawrence Avenue, on the edge of downtown Kelowna on a street of houses of a similar scale but of mixed periods, with an alley that runs beside the property and an open schoolyard across the alley to the west.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame Women's Institute Hall, built in 1924 as a small school facility, and located at 770 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey Trench House, built in 1911 and located at 784 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-and-one-half-storey wood-frame house built around 1908 in the Foursquare style, and located at 792 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey, wood Doyle House, built in 1908 in the Foursquare style, and located at 795 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The “Gurr House” at 815 Lawrence Avenue is a vernacular craftsman bungalow built in 1920. The property is within the residential North Central neighbourhood and is located between Richter Street and Ethel Street.
The Sarah H Frank House is a two-storey wood frame Edwardian era residence, distinguished by its steep pitched gable roof. The house is located on the north side of Lawrence Avenue, on the edge of downtown Kelowna on a street of houses of similar scale but of mixed periods.
The historic place is the two-storey, wood house built in 1906, and located at 825 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame and stucco-clad Atchison House built in 1931 in the Tudor Revival style, and located at 831 Lawrence Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood
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