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 one-and-one-half-storey, wood house built prior to 1914 and located at 732 Sutherland Avenue, in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the single-storey, wood-frame P.E. Simpson House built in 1914 in Arts and Crafts style, and located at 758 Sutherland Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the G.H. Kerr House, built in 1929 as a 1.5-storey hybrid Tudor Revival residence at 190 Vimy Avenue, and situated in the Abbott Street Heritage Conservation Area in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Fumerton Residence is a one-storey Arts and Crafts bungalow distinguished by its front-gabled roofline with multiple gabled projections on the front, east and west elevations. It is located on a prominent corner lot at the intersection of Vimy Avenue and McDougall Street on the southern edge of downtown Kelowna, set amongst homes of similar scale from various periods.
The historic place is the one- and two-storey metal-sided George Ward Packing House, built in 1926 to support fruit-growing activities. It is located at 2287 Ward Road in the rural East Kelowna neighbourhood of the City of Kelowna.
The historic place is a portion of the facade of the reconstructed wood Chinese Store, probably built in the early 1920s at 245 Harvey Avenue, as part of Kelowna's former 'Chinatown', and now located in the Kelowna Museum at 470 Queensway Avenue.
The historic place is the reconstructed squared-log McDougall Trading Post, originally built in 1861 on the Guisachan House property, in association with early fur trade activity, and now located in the Kelowna Museum at 470 Queensway Avenue.
The Kelowna & District Memorial Arena is a large sports arena with a low pitched, front gabled roof, centrally located at the corner of Ellis Street and Doyle Avenue in downtown Kelowna. The arena seats approximately 2,600 and is utilized by organized and recreational sports teams, mainly junior hockey.
The historic place is the B.C. Tree Fruits Ltd. building at 1473 Water Street, built in 1946 in the Moderne style, and located at the southeast corner of Water Street and Queensway in Kelowna's Downtown area.
The historic place is the two-storey, brick Leathley Printing Building, a substantial commercial building constructed in 1921, at 1481 Water Street, mid-way between Bernard Avenue and Queensway Avenue in Kelowna's Downtown area.
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