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 single-storey East Kelowna Community Hall, a simple building with wood shingle siding and rural character, built in 1940 in the agricultural southeast sector of the City of Kelowna.
St. Mary's Anglican Church is a one-storey stucco and shingle-clad rural church, designed in a traditional Gothic Revival style. It is located on East Kelowna Road near McCulloch Road, which is the core of East Kelowna, and the location of a local store and the East Kelowna Community Hall. There is a pre-school at the rear of the site, the community hall on one side and orchards on the other. Across the street from the church is a park and sports field. A modern polygonal addition has been built at the rear end of the church.
The historic place is the two-and-one-half-storey, wood-frame Copeland House (Elliot Apartments) at 784 Elliot Avenue.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey stucco and fieldstone Canadian National Railways Station, built in 1926 in a manner characteristic of railway stations of the time, and located at 1177 Ellis Street in Kelowna's North End neighbourhood.
The Okanagan Building & Trading Company Factory is situated on a large corner lot at Ellis Street and Coronation Avenue in the north end of downtown Kelowna, among other structures that recall the city’s industrial origins. Distinguishing features of this historic landmark include its board-formed concrete construction, a low-pitched, side-gabled roof with flanking lower roofs on either side of the building, and large double garage doors that denote the entrance to the shop. Other structures on the site support the industrial function.
The historic place is the three-storey brick Old Cannery building, built in 1912 in Edwardian Commercial style at 1280-1298 Ellis Street in Kelowna's Inner City adjacent to the Downtown area. The central three-storey brick portion was later extended with a one-storey wood wing to the south and a two-storey brick wing to the north.
The historic place is the two-storey brick and timber-frame B.C. Growers Packing House, built as an early twentieth-century industrial building in 1918 and now occupied by two museums, located at 1304 Ellis Street, adjacent to Kelowna's Downtown area.
The William Lloyd-Jones House is located in Kelowna’s North End neighbourhood. It is a large, Edwardian-era house distinguished by its two storey massing, full-width open front verandah with square porch columns and central two-storey projecting bay.
The historic place is the single-storey, wood-frame McGregor House, built in 1920 in Craftsman Bungalow style, and located at 1788 Ethel Street in Kelowna's South Central neighbourhood.
The DeHart Residence is a one-storey, wood-frame, Edwardian-era cottage, distinguished by its pyramidal roof form with hipped dormer, and partial wraparound verandah. The house is situated at the corner of Ethel Street and Sutherland Avenue in the South Central neighbourhood, which lies on the edge of downtown Kelowna.
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