The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (generally known as the Hotel Vancouver) is a hotel located on West Georgia Street and Burrard Street, in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Constructed at 111 metres (17 storeys) high, its architects were John S. Archibald and John Schofield. It became part of the Canadian Pacific Hotels chain after that company purchased CN Hotels in 1988. CP Hotels was later renamed to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
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The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver (generally known as the Hotel Vancouver) is a hotel located on West Georgia Street and Burrard Street, in the heart of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.
Constructed at 111 metres (17 storeys) high, its architects were John S. Archibald and John Schofield. It became part of the Canadian Pacific Hotels chain after that company purchased CN Hotels in 1988. CP Hotels was later renamed to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.
This building is the third hotel to be named "Hotel Vancouver". The second Hotel Vancouver, this building's predecessor a block away, was built in 1916, and became a troop barracks during the Second World War, and was finally torn down in 1949 to fulfill a commitment made by the city with the developers of the third Hotel Vancouver to demolish it - as the new hotel's design was not as lavish and impressive, and the older hotel was perceived to be too much of a potential rival. The second hotel was in a grand Italianate revival style, and was...
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