City Hall (Vancouver)
The City Hall is the city hall of Vancouver and seat of the city council and the mayor . The twelve-story building designed by Fred Townley was built in 1936 in the Art Deco style. It is located on West 12th Avenue in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood, about two miles south of downtown.
From 1929, the Vancouver city council was housed in the Holden Building, built in 1911 on Hastings Street. This building soon turned out to be too small. On January 3, 1936, construction work began on the new City Hall. In front of the building is a statue created by Charles Marega , which represents the British explorer George Vancouver . The memorial was unveiled on August 20, 1936 by Sir Percy Vincent, Lord Mayor of London . Sir Percy, who was visiting Vancouver at the time, also gave the city some presents. These included a staff and a branch "... from a tree in the grove where a falling apple provided Isaac Newton with the inspiration for his theory of gravity." The staff and branch are still kept in City Hall today.
On December 1, 1936, after a construction time of only 330 days, the town hall was completed. Each outer door is adorned with the coat of arms of the city of Vancouver, each door handle with a monogram of the building. The ceiling on the second floor of the central tower is clad in gold leaf from various mines in British Columbia . On January 2, 1937, George Clark Miller was the first mayor to move into the new town hall. From 1968 to 1970 a four-story wing was added to the east. The building has been a listed building since March 1976.
Web links
- Vancouver City Council - City Hall ( Memento from October 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '38.9 " N , 123 ° 6' 50.2" W.