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, brick Clement House, built in 1912 in the Foursquare style as part of a large agricultural-residential complex located at 1049 Borden Avenue, in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood. The Clement Barn, located at 1019 Borden Avenue, is a separate historic place that forms part of the complex, and is described separately.
The eclectic brick Herman D. Riggs House was built in 1915 and is situated at 911 Borden Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the 2.5-storey W.A.C. Bennett House (Brookside Manor), built in 1914 in the Tudor Revival style at 1988 Bowes Street, in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood. The historic place includes the larger property, now subdivided, that extends to Ethel Street to the west and to Mill Creek to the south.
The Stiell House is a large, north facing two and one-half storey Tudor Revival style residence, distinguished by stucco and half-timbered cladding. It is located on the shore of Okanagan Lake on a corner lot in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood. The mature landscaping includes cedars and willows.
The historic place is the two-storey wood J.B. Whitehead House, built in 1911 in the Foursquare style and located at 545 Burne Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The Blackey House is a one and one-half story shingled Craftsman bungalow, situated on a large lot on Cadder Avenue at the corner of Abbott Street, set far back on the property with a large grassed yard with shrubs and mature coniferous and deciduous trees. It sits within a grouping of houses of compatible age and style in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood.
The Leopold Hayes House is a one and one-half storey wood-frame Arts and Crafts bungalow, located mid-block on the south side of Cadder Avenue in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood. It is set back on a large lot within a context of houses of similar age and scale.
The Arthur Dawson Residence is a two-storey, side-gabled, stucco-clad dwelling, generally symmetrical in massing. It is situated on the north side of Cadder Avenue on the edge of downtown Kelowna, set amongst homes of similar scale from various periods.
The Barton House is a one and one-half storey transitional Period Revival house, with stucco cladding and half-timbering, located on a corner lot on Cadder Avenue at Long Street, surrounded by a large cedar hedge. It is located in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood and is similar to others in the area in size, though older and larger than its immediate neighbours.
The Meugens House is a one and one-half storey vernacular Edwardian era wood-frame residence. It is located mid-block on the north side of Cadder Avenue with an early garage at the front of the large, treed property, among similar houses in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood, close to city centre.
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