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Schou Street School
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/landmark637
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Description
- School building.
- Associated Dates
- 1914
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
- Repository
- Burnaby Heritage Planning
- Geographic Access
- Norfolk Street
- Associated Dates
- 1914
- Description
- School building.
- Heritage Value
- This school was built to replace tents and temporary buildings that had previously been used for the local children of the Broadview neighbourhood. The site was donated to the School Board in 1911 by the real estate firm of Leibly & Blumer in anticipation of increased settlement in the district. The school was named after the street, which had been named after Nicolai Schou, Burnaby’s second Reeve. Originally designed in the Arts and Crafts style, the character of the school was altered in 1964 when its original siding was covered in stucco and the windows were replaced, but has retained its original form and massing, including its front gabled entrance with recessed doorway and twinned square columns. Of special note is the name of the school above the front entry.This school was designed by Joseph H. Bowman (1864-1943), a specialist in school buildings, who was retained as the school board architect for South Vancouver and Burnaby. One of his first designs for Burnaby was a utilitarian two-storey school that could be built with two classrooms and later expanded to eight rooms as the district’s school population grew; five schools from this design were built in 1908, and then four others in modified versions between 1910-16, including this school.
- Locality
- Broadview
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Broadview (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Cascade-Schou Area
- Architect
- Joseph H. Bowman
- Area
- 7660.46
- Contributing Resource
- Building
- Street Address
- 4054 Norfolk Street
- Street View URL
- Google Maps Street View
Images
Granville Street, Vancouver
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumdescription1067
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Date
- [1911]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.0 x 10.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Granville Street, looking south. The two tall buildings to the sides are under construction. Busy street activities can be seen below with two trams running along the tracks. The old Vancouver Hotel is in view and the old courthouse (later the Vancouver Art Gallery) is in view faint…
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Village Museum Photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.0 x 10.2 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Granville Street, looking south. The two tall buildings to the sides are under construction. Busy street activities can be seen below with two trams running along the tracks. The old Vancouver Hotel is in view and the old courthouse (later the Vancouver Art Gallery) is in view faintly to the right of the photograph. An annoation on the back of the photograph reads, ""Granville St. - with OLD [underlined] / Vancouver Hotel across / from the Birks Building/ 1911/ (Court House in back of Van Hotel)."
- Geographic Access
- Vancouver
- Accession Code
- HV972.50.6
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No known restrictions
- Date
- [1911]
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Scan Resolution
- 600
- Scan Date
- 2023-04-04
- Photographer
- Dean, H.M.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph