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.
Mallam Barn is located on the Summerhill Estate Winery in the Okanagan Mission area of Kelowna. The two-storey barn features a steep dual-pitched gambrel roof, a hayloft entryway with hay hood, and wooden plank siding. Located uphill from Chute Lake Road with spectacular views of Okanagan Lake, the barn is associated with a two-storey log house, a root cellar and a small ravine where Rembler Creek runs through.
The historic place is the single-storey squared-log W.T. Small house, built in 1890, with a two-storey wood frame front section added in 1910. The property is located at 863 Coronado Crescent, in Kelowna's Okanagan Mission neighbourhood.
The Stubbs House is a rambling, one and one-half storey wood-frame Craftsman style residence, with substantial but sympathetic additions. The house, surrounded by broad lawns, is located on a large, rural property in Kelowna's Mission neighbourhood, far removed from the city centre. Located on the property are various agricultural outbuildings, sheds and a complementary garage, and there are views to Okanagan Lake from the house and rear yards.
The historic place is the two-storey wood-siding H. Pettigrew House, built in 1908 originally at 575-599 Harvey Avenue, in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half storey wood E.D. Alexander House built in 1919 in the California Bungalow style, and located at 768 DeHart Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the one-and-one-half-storey wood-frame Handlen House built around 1930, and located at 780 DeHart Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The historic place is the low, wood Tutt House built in 1910 in cottage style, and located at 809 DeHart Avenue in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood
This historic 1871 vernacular gable roofed 2 level Grist Mill is closely associated with the Fleming Property which was divided from the original Brent’s Mill estate. It was relocated from the original site at 2590 Harvey Ave. to the newly created Heritage Park at 2128 Leckie Pl. in 2002. It was installed on new concrete foundations which retain the orientation relationship with the Fleming House and the Dairy Barn.
This historic 1912 vernacular gable rafted Dairy barn is closely associated with the Fleming Property which was divided from the original Brent’s Mill estate. It was relocated from the original site at 2590 Harvey Ave. to the newly created Heritage Park at 2128 Leckie Pl. in 2002. It was installed on new concrete foundations which retain the orientation relationship with the Fleming House and Brent’s Grist Mill.
This historic 1871 farmhouse is closely associated with the Fleming Property which was divided from the original Brent’s Mill estate. It was relocated from the original site at 2590 Harvey Ave. to the newly created Heritage Park at 2128 Leckie Pl. in 2002. It was installed on new concrete foundations which retain the orientation relationship with Brent’s Grist Mill and the Dairy Barn.
- ‹ previous
- 9 of 21
- next ›
