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 W.R. Foster House is a one-storey wood-frame shingle Craftsman bungalow, located at the corner of Cadder Avenue and Pandosy Street in Kelowna's historic Abbott Street neighbourhood. It is screened from the road by a white picket fence and a mix of medium height shrubbery and mature deciduous and coniferous trees, and set back from the edges of the property on a manicured lawn.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey squared-log McDougall House, built in 1886 in the Pioneer Vernacular style and located at 1056-1060 Cameron Avenue in Kelowna's South Pandosy neighbourhood.
The Milk Shed is a one-storey, L-shaped wooden structure with a gable roof and gable addition located in the Guisachan Heritage Park in Kelowna’s South Pandosy neighbourhood.
The Garden Shed is a one-storey, rectangular wooden structure with a gable roof located in the Guisachan Heritage Park in Kelowna’s South Pandosy neighbourhood.
The historic place is the single-storey Guisachan House, built in 1891 with wood siding in the Late Victorian manner and situated at 1060 Cameron Avenue in Kelowna's South Pandosy neighbourhood. The historic place includes the house and its two-acre lot with landscaping and gardens.
The historic place is the 2.5-storey, wood-frame Third Casorso House, built in 1907 in the foursquare manner, and located at 3860 Casorso Road in Kelowna's southeast sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey, log Second Casorso, House built in stages between about 1886 and 1891 in the pioneer vernacular manner, and located at 3877 Casorso Road in Kelowna's Southeast Sector.
Elements of the original Growers Supply Building have been retained within the current Rotary Centre for the Arts. The visible remnants of the Growers Supply Building are located at the rear of the current building, including wooden structural and concrete elements.
The P.B. Willits House is a two-storey wood-frame residence, with a steeply pitched roof and wraparound verandah that demonstrates the influence of the Queen Anne Revival style. Originally built on a farm property that has now been subdivided, this house is now surrounded by smaller houses of a more recent vintage.
The historic place is the two-storey log (first) Mallam House, built in 1900 in a rural vernacular manner at 4845 Lakeshore Road, in the Okanagan Mission sector of Kelowna, and now a part of the Summerhill Estate Winery.
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