The housing stock in the Dunbar area of Vancouver has undergone significant change in the past five years. Originally a working class neighbourhood with many quite modest homes surrounded by lovely gardens, it is now a neighbourhood that 99% of the people working in Vancouver cannot afford because the replacement homes are built to the maximum footprint and cost millions. Greenspace has been reduced. Included on this website are photos of many (not all) of the disappeared houses.
View Teardowns in the Dunbar area of Vancouver, BC in a larger map
View Teardowns in the Dunbar area of Vancouver, BC in a larger map
Demolitions West of the Dunbar Community Centre
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Demolitions on West 39th Avenue
West 39th Avenue has wide lots, attractive for building large new houses. These three in the 4000 block join two previous demolitions in that block. Those two houses were replaced by luxury multimillion dollar houses that have spent their lives being for sale. I missed getting a photo of 4069 before it was demolished. It all adds up to six demolitions on the one 4000 block.
4026 West 39th Avenue on October 30, 2011. Torn down November 2011. |
4049 West 39th Avenue. Torn down September or October 2011. |
4055 West 39th Avenue. Torn down 2012. |
This one at 3349 West 39th Avenue is east of Dunbar Street, but there are the same wide lots. Torn down 2012. |
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
West of Dunbar Street in the 30's
A substantial "Tudor" at 4015 West 35th Avenue. Torn down in 2011 or 2012. |
The photo does not do justice to this lovely corner house at 3893 West 34th Avenue. Torn down in 2012. |
Built in 1947 at 3906 West 34th Avenue. Torn down in 2011 or 2012. Those little round windows usually mean a 1940's construction. |
Friday, January 11, 2013
A Walk East on West 20th Avenue
Across the street stood 4046 West 20th, a wide home on two legal lots. Also torn down sometime in 2011 or 2012, it has been replaced by two houses. |
The blue house is 3835 West 20th, and the yellow one to the left is 3841 West 20th. Both were torn down in 2012. |
Walking east and across Dunbar Street one used to see this 1926 house at 3465 West 20th. It was torn down in 2012. Will the new house last 86 years? |
Note the surveyor's stake, dividing this 66 foot lot into two halves. Two new houses have been built on this former 3349 West 20th lot. This house was torn down in 2012. |
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Good and Bad Design
Much is made of the design of the large new houses now being constructed, but the houses they replaced exhibited some good qualities, or not.
3845 West 37th Avenue. Great wide porch with old stone! Torn down 2012. |
3691 West 38th Avenue. A traditional well-kept Dunbar cutie with a great spring garden growing there in April 2011. Torn down in 2012. |
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Seven HousesThat Came Down on West 19th Avenue
4060 West 19th Avenue. Built in 1923. Torn down in 2012. |
3984 West 19th Avenue. Torn down February 4 or 5, 2011. |
3716 West 19th Avenue. This house is the odd one out in this blog entry because it appears to be from the 70`s or 80`s, or maybe it is a total remodel of an older house. Torn down in 2012. |
3804 West 19th Avenue. Built in 1938 on the corner. Torn down Spring 2012 and replaced by a new house and laneway house both clad in stone. |
3857 West 19th Avenue. Snow there on February 29, 2012! Torn down Spring 2012. |
3983 West 19th Avenue. Derelict in May 2011. Torn down Fall 2011. |
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Demolitions on Blenheim Street
The first four houses pictured here, all on Blenheim Street, were demolished in 2011.
5276 Blenheim. Torn down May or June 2011. |
4579 Blenheim. Torn down in 2011. Replaced by a new house + laneway house. |
5192 Blenheim. Torn down June or July 2011. |
The above house is on a corner--here is the rear view. The place was being prepared for demolition. |
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