MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | King_Edward_High_School,_c.1920.jpg (3000x2117) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | www.flickr.com | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: blackandwhite monochrome outdoor building architecture black and white King Edward High School on north side of West 12th Avenue, east of Oak Street in Fairview. Photograph circa-1920. For many years the school's distinct cupola was a landmark on the slopes of Fairview. Opened January 1905 as Vancouver High School on 6.95 acres of land purchase by the City of Vancouver from the CPR for $6,500. This building replaced the first permanent Vancouver High School at 249 Dunsmuir Street (built 1893, became the Vancouver School of Art in 1925). Renamed King Edward High School in 1909. Community college classes began at the school in 1960 until the opening of Vancouver Community College-Langara Campus at 100 West 49th Avenue in 1970. The building was destroyed by an extensive fire in June 1973. The remains were demolished and the grounds became the VCC-King Edward Campus (begining in the school's gymnasium (built 1940)). After the college's move to the VCC-China Creek Campus site, the grounds were taken over by the current Vancouver General Hospital expansion. Today, only the stone walls at the edge of the old school grounds survive. [City of Vancouver Archives; Stuart Thomson, photographer] King Edward High School on north side of West 12th Avenue, east of Oak Street in Fairview. Photograph circa-1920. For many years the school's distinct cupola was a landmark on the slopes of Fairview. Opened January 1905 as Vancouver High School on 6.95 acres of land purchase by the City of Vancouver from the CPR for $6,500. This building replaced the first permanent Vancouver High School at 249 Dunsmuir Street (built 1893, became the Vancouver School of Art in 1925). Renamed King Edward High School in 1909. Community college classes began at the school in 1960 until the opening of Vancouver Community College-Langara Campus at 100 West 49th Avenue in 1970. The building was destroyed by an extensive fire in June 1973. The remains were demolished and the grounds became the VCC-King Edward Campus (begining in the school's gymnasium (built 1940)). After the college's move to the VCC-China Creek Campus site, the grounds were taken over by the current Vancouver General Hospital expansion. Today, only the stone walls at the edge of the old school grounds survive. [City of Vancouver Archives; Stuart Thomson, photographer] | ||||
