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 imposing and classical two-storey, red brick Central Elementary School, built in 1913 at 1825 Richter Street in Kelowna's South Central Neighbourhood.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey, log-construction Cameron House at 2337-2345 Richter Street, built in 1928 and located on the Guisachan property in Kelowna's South Pandosy/KLO neighbourhood.
The G.D. Loane House is a one and one-half storey side-gabled wood-frame, stucco-clad Period Revival house with a large, modern front-gabled addition on the south end. The house fronts onto a generous garden that merges into a grassed park on the east side of Mill Creek. The house overlooks City Park, and is located in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey wood-frame Willis Schell House built in 1913 with Arts and Crafts features, and located at 1024 Rutland Road in Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half storey wood-frame McDonald Farm House, built in 1913 with Arts and Crafts detailing, and located at 520 Rutland Road in Kelowna's Rutland neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey red brick former Rutland Elementary School, built in 1913 with Beaux-Arts influence, and located at 770 Rutland Road North in the Rutland sector of the City of Kelowna. A wood addition, built in 1931, that stands at the rear of the brick school does not comprise part of the historic place.
The historic place is the two and a half storey wood-frame Cross House, built in 1913 and located at 3652 Spiers Road in the rural South East Kelowna neighbourhood.
The historic place is the St. Michael and All Angels Cathedral, a large stone Gothic Revival church built in 1911-13 and located at 608-650 Sutherland Avenue, at the corner of Richter Street, in Kelowna's South Central Neighbourhood.
The historic place is in the one-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame N.D. McTavish House, built in 1912 as a hipped-roof cottage with Arts and Crafts character, and located at 710 Sutherland Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the large, brick, 2.5-storey Charles Harvey House, built in 1908 in a hybrid of the Queen Anne and Foursquare styles, located at 715 Sutherland Avenue in Kelowna's South Central Neighbourhood.
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