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 two-storey wood-frame Bright House, a 2.5-storey, wood-frame, Foursquare residence built in 1911 and located at 3430 Pooley Road in the orchard setting of the East Kelowna neighbourhood.
The historic place is the early, single-storey Pooley House, built in stages between about 1904 and 1913 at 3690 Pooley Road, on benchland in the agricultural East Kelowna sector of the City of Kelowna.
The historic place is the two-storey log and wood-siding Pooley Barn, built in 1904, with a one-storey addition of 1984, located at 3690 Pooley Road in the agricultural East Kelowna sector of the City of Kelowna.
The Imhoff Tank is located on a 6.5 hectare site that has housed the City’s wastewater treatment since 1913. Kelowna’s first sewage treatment facility, it consists of a two-part board-formed concrete structure, with a cylindrical Imhoff Tank with an interior Sludge Digestion Chamber and a trough-like Dosing Tank. It is oriented east-west, with the flow originally directed towards Okanagan Lake, and is located on the grounds of the City of Kelowna’s current Wastewater Treatment Facility.
The Reid House is a one and one-half storey Edwardian era rustic Arts and Crafts residence partially clad in cobblestone and distinguished by a gambrel roof. It is located in a rural context on spacious rolling grounds on the east side of Reid Road in the East Kelowna neighbourhood, far removed from the city centre. Set on a spacious landscaped lawn, there is an unimpeded vista from the house of the surrounding valley.
The historic place is the two-and-one-half-storey, Foursquare, wood-frame Martin House, built in 1907 during the first phase of civic development, and located at 1441 Richter Street in Kelowna's North End neighbourhood
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey, wood Byron McDonald House, built in 1914 in the Arts and Crafts style, and located at 1471 Richter Street in Kelowna's Downtown neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey, wood house built in 1914, and located at 1475 Richter Street in Kelowna's North End neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey wood house built by 1914 and located at 1481 Richter Street, in Kelowna's North End neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey red brick Old Glenn Avenue School (Glenn Avenue was the original name for Lawrence Avenue), built in an Edwardian institutional style in 1910 at 1633 Richter Street in Kelowna's North Central Neighbourhood.
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