2000 Trimble Street, Vancouver, BC. Statement of Significance Description of Historic Place: Located at 2000 Trimble Street, high above English Bay in the west-side neighbourhood of West Point Grey, Queen Mary Elementary School was built in several stages. The oldest extant structure is a two-storey red-brick-clad building with a tall central monitor and grand front entrance, opened in 1914. A large poured-in-place reinforced-concrete addition was built in 1926-30. The gymnasium/auditorium was designed by Alan W. Gray and built in 1954. A four-classroom addition was built in 1964. Also on the site and a part of the historic place is a one-storey structure designed with Craftsman features; its history is uncertain. Heritage Value: Queen Mary Elementary School has heritage value for its architecture and history. Its construction is associated with the tremendous expansion of Vancouver before World War I. Queen Mary Elementary School is an outstanding example of school architecture. The first wing was built in 1914 in the Collegiate Gothic style. It was, and remains, attractive and substantial relative to the residential neighbourhood. Views of the school from nearby enhance its considerable iconic value. Queen Mary was built to standard plans for eight-room schools commissioned by the Point Grey School Board following a competitive process. The design by architects Twizell & Twizell, who produced many fine institutional and residential buildings, reflects a systematic building program, typical of the bureaucratic approach to school architecture. Value is also seen in the differences from the more restrained and less flamboyant schools built in Vancouver at the same time. This reflects the historical geography of Vancouver, as Point Grey remained a separate municipality until 1928. Heritage value is also found in the evolution of the Queen Mary ‘campus’ and in the range of school architecture represented at the site. A second structure, built in 1926, accommodated the growing school-age population. Point Grey, like Vancouver, reduced its architectural ambitions with its straightened financial circumstances. Designed by architects Gardiner and Mercer, the relatively utilitarian design reflects a pattern evident throughout the province. The gymnasium (1954) and classroom annex (1964) are good examples, in form and timing, of later additions made to many Vancouver schools. The undated (1920s') small wood-frame building was likely built to accommodate manual training. For most of its time Queen Mary has been an elementary school. During the 1930s, to relieve crowding at Kitsilano Junior High School, it also accommodated students in grades 7 and 8. Queen Mary Elementary School has heritage value for the collective memory of its past and present staff and pupils. Its fine archival record includes Parent-Teacher Association minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, and school records. Early students likely remember sports days at Maple Grove Park, where Point Grey’s school children participated in track-and-field events, Maypole Dancing, and costume parade. Later students might recall the influx of children from the nearby Jericho Armed Forces Base during and after World War II. Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program Character-Defining Elements: The character-defining elements of Queen Mary Elementary School include: General - tradition of use as a school - the high, sloped site, with a panoramic view of English Bay, Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver, and the North Shore mountains - views to the school from West 4th and 5th Avenues - the campus-like ensemble of buildings on the site Brick Building (1914) - the Collegiate Gothic style, seen in features such as the notched and gabled parapet, the wall buttresses, the stone copings above the brick walls, the pointed arch over the entrance, the enclosed entrance porch with its buttresses and notched parapet, and the quoin-like brick patterning between the windows and their stone surrounds - the symmetrical facade - the tall central monitor/cupola - the use of red brick, stone trim, and a concrete base - the multi-paned wood-sash windows and the transom over the entrances Concrete Building (1926) - the symmetrical facade - the exposed concrete walls - the restrained ornament, including the rusticated ground floor, the tall pilasters on the second and third floors, the pointed projections on the parapet above the corner pilasters, and the entrance portico with its red-tiled canopy - Interior features, including: - intact spatial configuration of interior spaces, high ceilings, millwork and wide casements, clocks, public address speakers, high floor boards, multi-paned and multi-paneled doors with original hardware, repeating motif of interior segmental arches as transition areas in halls, exposed mechanical systems, fixtures and plumbing in bathrooms, boiler room with two original fireproof doors with hardware, art room - classrooms: teache

1936 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC. Statement of Significance Description of Historic Place: Lord Tennyson Elementary School is a two-storey (with raised basement) red-brick structure located on a city block in the Kitsilano neighbourhood. Begun in 1909 and designed in a Classical Revival style, Tennyson was laid out in the standard ‘barbell’ plan. The main facade, which faces West 10th Avenue, features a highly decorative central entry. A gymnasium/auditorium, added in 1912-13, extends from the south (rear) elevation. Later additions were made to the gym. A small wood classroom building stands near the gym. The grounds are divided into athletic fields and a number of outdoor ’rooms’ that contain playground equipment. Heritage Value: Lord Tennyson Elementary School has heritage value for its architecture and history. Its construction, in 1909-10, is associated with the tremendous expansion of Vancouver before World War I. Growth in this Kitsilano neighbourhood increased the school-age population. Like many schools by Vancouver School Board architect Norman Leech, Tennyson was built in stages. What distinguishes it from others is that the second stage, which included a gymnasium (an early surviving gymnasium/auditorium) and classrooms, was built soon after the first, in 1912-13. Attractive and substantial relative to the neighbourhood, the school was designed to enhance the status of public education and promote the good taste and prosperity of Vancouver and its citizens. This is evident in the classically decorated arched main entry, which is a community icon. Much other ornament has been removed. The attention to detail is also reflected in the quality of the interior features, such as the woodwork, finishing details, and the coffered ceiling of the gymnasium. Lord Tennyson Elementary School has value as well for its many standard features that represented good school design and responded to the changing curriculum and pedagogy of the twentieth century. The wide halls and classrooms lighted with large windows and the separate cloakrooms are examples. Good light and ventilation were closely linked to good health. An early wood building, probably intended for manual arts, remains in use. In the 1960s and 1970s, neighbourhood change led the school to struggle with conflicting parental expectations. ‘Hippies’ favoured loosely structured open-concept classrooms while others wanted structured traditional classrooms. Both kinds of spaces are found in the school today. This was the first school in Vancouver to adopt the platoon system, in 1924. Devised in the US, the system helped schools deliver an increasingly diverse curriculum by rotating pupils to specialized classrooms for instruction in topics such as music, art, and science. The system also enabled administrators to place more children in the school without building new classrooms, resulting in valued ‘efficiency’. The school initiated, in 1945, Canada’s first kindergarten for hearing-impaired children. Continuously used as an elementary school, Lord Tennyson Elementary School has heritage value for the collective memory of its past and present staff and pupils. This is exemplified by its archival record, which includes Parent-Teacher Association minutes, scrapbooks, photographs, trophies, and school records. Source: City of Vancouver Heritage Conservation Program Character-Defining Elements: The character-defining elements of Lord Tennyson Elementary School include: General - tradition of use as a school - visibility within the neighbourhood - views towards the North Shore mountains Building Exterior and Plan - the conventional ‘barbell’ plan - rusticated stone walls of the basement and red brick walls of the upper floors - classically ornamented entry, which includes a large arch and barrel vault with decorative keystone, Doric columns, entablature and dentilled cornice, glazed panelled door, and transom with circular and X-shaped glazing bars - other exterior details, including the granite stairs to the principal entrance and at the east end; metal handrails; original hexagonal tile entry floor with ‘LORD TENNYSON SCHOOL’ and Greek key motif around the perimeter; and continuous sill course over the basement - large, wood-sash double-hung windows, many of them 6-over-6 Interior features, including: - general: intact spatial configuration of interior spaces, high ceilings, wood panelled doors with multi-paned glazing, single-pane transoms and original hardware, clocks and public-announcement speakers, high baseboards, original electric face plates, moulding coving at ceiling level, early signage in a consistent font (such as ‘BABY CLINIC & LUNCH ROOM’), fire doors with high kick plates - classrooms: original slate blackboards and wood surrounds, four classrooms converted to open learning concept (retaining two cloakrooms), several cloakrooms with separate doors, fixed multi-paned windows, and original millwork and hardware - gymnasiu