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 1.5-storey white, wood-sided Brown House, built in 1940 in the Cape Cod Cottage style, and located at 1826 Maple Street in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood, within the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey, wood-sided Dawson-Monteith House, built in 1941 in the Cape Cod Cottage Style at 1842 Maple Street in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood, and located within the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area.
The Gaddes House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame, stucco-clad house, identifiable by its symmetrical design and steep side gabled roof. It is located mid-block on quiet, well treed and unusually wide Maple Street in Kelowna's Abbott Street historic neighbourhood amidst residences of a similar age and scale.
The historic place is the two-storey, wood-sided MacLean House, a building in the Georgian Revival Style, built in 1942 and located in the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Harding House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame, stucco-clad cottage style residence incorporating picturesque qualities and period revival references. It is situated close to the city centre, on a corner lot on Marshall Street at Buckland Avenue in the Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Area.
The historic place is the two-storey, stuccoed wood-frame structure at 1812 Marshall Street, a cottage-style house built in 1931 in the Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Area, in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Burnham House is a one and one-half storey, stucco-clad wood-frame cottage style residence, notable for its picturesque and complex roofline. It is situated mid-block amidst other residences of a similar age and scale, in the Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Area.
The historic place is the 2.5-storey, stuccoed cross-gable W.J. Marshall House at 1869 Marshall Street, built in 1908, located in the Marshall Street Heritage Conservation Area in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Jennens House is a large two and one-half storey wood-frame British Arts and Crafts style residence with stucco cladding and half-timbered detail. It is distinguished by a high jerkin-headed roof with front and rear jerkin-headed gables. The front facade is dominated by a central projecting entrance bay while the lakefront facade has symmetrical projecting bays at each end. The house is set on a large beachfront lot, fronting the east shore of Lake Okanagan. Located in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood, the site retains its original half-timbered garage, now converted for residential use, and is surrounded by mature coniferous trees.
The McDougall House is a large two and one-half storey British Arts and Crafts style-residence, distinguished by its picturesque silhouette and broad cross-gabled roof. It is situated on a beachfront lot at the end of a cul-de-sac at the intersection of McTavish Avenue, McDougall Street and Lake Avenue. Set on the eastern shore of Lake Okanagan and in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood, it is located close to the city centre.
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