Keywords: building architecture outdoor "Vancouver's Newest and Most Progressive Departmental Store Pioneers — Established 1892" British importers Frederick Buscombe & Co.'s "The Fair" department store, 29-35 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. In August 1909, it became James Stark & Co. Ltd.'s Glasgow House dry goods department store. Completed in 1908, this quite modern-designed building is extant along with the building to its right [Wood, Vallance and Leggat Ltd. building, built c.1900; Converted to the the Rex Theatre in 1913] as the Army & Navy department store (since 1939; expanded into the Rex c.1959). "Vancouver's Newest and Most Progressive Departmental Store Pioneers — Established 1892" British importers Frederick Buscombe & Co.'s "The Fair" department store, 29-35 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. In August 1909, it became James Stark & Co. Ltd.'s Glasgow House dry goods department store. Completed in 1908, this quite modern-designed building is extant along with the building to its right [Wood, Vallance and Leggat Ltd. building, built c.1900; Converted to the the Rex Theatre in 1913] as the Army & Navy department store (since 1939; expanded into the Rex c.1959). |