This Week in History, 1914: Many considered the existing city hall at Main and Pender a bit of a dump.
The first city hall in 1886 was in a small wooden building at 147-151 Powell. Council didn’t have the money to pay for it, so the contractor locked the city out for a couple of weeks until council came up with the cash.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
So Hewitt put forth his own plan: a three-block civic centre from Hastings to Georgia Streets, between Cambie and Hamilton. The city hall block would have been where Vancouver Community College is today . The proposal would have also incorporated the former Vancouver courthouse site , along with the block that now houses the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.Article content
“If you look at what San Francisco did, that’s what everyone was trying to do,” he said. “They were trying to build big monumental civic centres that were like Europe. They were trying to become great cities, and trying to clean the dirty Victorian industrial city up. Brighten it and whiten it and bring order to it and all that kind of thing.”
In the election, Mayor Truman Smith Baxter defeated former Mayor Louis D. Taylor. Taylor had campaigned against a new city hall, saying the money could be better spent elsewhere.
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