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 storeys stuccoed wood-frame house at 795 Bernard Avenue, built in 1936, and located in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame Harvey House built in 1926 in Craftsman bungalow style, and located at 796 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey wood Hughes House at 806 Bernard Avenue, built in 1933 in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame Winter House, built in 1939 in cottage form, and located at 815 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood
The historic place is the 2.5-storey, wood-clad J.W. Jones House, built in 1912 and located at 830 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's historic North Central neighbourhood; and a detached garage.
The historic place is the single-storey, wood-frame McKim House, built in 1936 and located at 855 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood
The historic place is the two-storey, wood H.C. Cooper House, built in 1905 and located at 862 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the single-storey Knowles House, built in 1907 with subsequent additions, located at 865 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's historic North Central neighbourhood, and now part of a municipal park.
The historic place is the single-storey stucco-clad house built in 1936 and located at 870 Bernard Avenue in Kelowna's North Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the two-storey, brick and timber-frame Clement Barn at 1019 Borden Avenue, built as a horse barn in 1912 as part of a large residential / farm complex owned by Charles G. Clement. The barn has subsequently been converted to residential use. It is located in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
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