Architecture of British Columbia

Architecture and buildings of Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia

1883 – Oriental Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia

A late nineteenth century Victorian Italianate hotel, with extensive use of tall upper storey bay windows and distinct ground-storey arches.

1886 – Bank of British Columbia, Government St., Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: W.H. Williams

The Bank of British Columbia is a three storey Italianate Style building on the corner of Government and Fort Streets.

1889 – Former Law Courts, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Architect: Herman Otto Tiedeman

Completed in 1889, the Former Victoria Law Courts marked an important stage in the evolution of British Columbia’s court system.

1890 – St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: Leonard B. Trimen

The foundation stone was laid by the Hon John Robson on March 7th 1889 just five months before he became the ninth Premier of British Columbia.

1891 – Milne Block, Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: Thomas Hooper

Built in 1891, the Milne Block was designed by prominent British Columbia architect, Thomas Hooper (1857-1935),

1892 – Colonial Metropole Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: John Teague

A three-storey brick building featuring arched bays and decorative brickwork above its third-storey windows, and a stylized ‘false-front’

1892 – House, Vancouver, British Columbia

Architect: Fripp & Wills

1892 – New Cathedral at Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: A.R. Scott

Interior Perspective View of premiated design as published in The Building News, October 28th 1892.
As early as 1870 there had been plans for a new Cathedral and in 1891,

1892 – New England Block, Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: John Teague

John Teague, architect for Victoria’s city hall, designed the New England Hotel, built in 1892 in a hybrid of Victorian Romanesque architecture and Sullivanesque design.

1893 – Competitive Designs for new Government Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia

Architect: Dick & Wickson, T.C. Sorby

Unbuilt entries for an architectural competition to design a range of goverment buildings for the province in Victoria.