Heritage register
The Kelowna Heritage Register is an official listing of properties within the community that are identified as having heritage value. Search the register below.
The Heritage Register replaces the 1983 Kelowna Heritage Resources Inventory. In 1994, the Local Government Act, along with the community's growth and public interest in the conservation and revitalization of heritage buildings and sites, allowed for the creation of the Heritage Register.
More than 200 properties are currently listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register. For each listed building, a Statement of Significance has been written, indicating why the building merits inclusion. A Statement of Significance provides a description of and identifies the heritage value and character-defining elements of a historic place.
The Heritage Register identifies properties of heritage value in Kelowna and allows us to review and monitor proposed changes that would have an impact on listed heritage properties. Properties listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register have special status and may be eligible to benefit from the following incentives:
- Heritage Revitalization Agreements to vary the City’s Zoning and Subdivision, Development and Servicing Bylaws. This allows the City to consider, on a case-by-case basis, providing property owners with incentives and bonuses such as increasing density, relaxing height and setback restrictions and relaxing parking restrictions, and allowing appropriate adaptive re-uses. In return for these incentives, the property owners would agree to retain and protect the listed properties.
- Special treatment under the BC Building Code, which permits equivalencies to current building code provisions. The equivalencies allow property owners to upgrade older buildings without requiring strict code compliance, while not compromising safety standards.
The Heritage Grants Program, administered by the Central Okanagan Heritage Society is designed to promote conservation of residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural heritage buildings by assisting owners with grants for a portion of the costs incurred in conservation work. Eligible work may include reroofing, window and door conservation, siding and porch conservation, work on foundation and repainting. Any owner with a property listed on the Kelowna Heritage Register is eligible to apply for this program. Interested applicants should visit the Central Okanagan Heritage Society's website for more information.
Buildings listed in the Kelowna Heritage Register can be altered and may even be demolished. However, City Council may temporarily delay the issuance of a permit to alter or demolish a listed heritage building in order to allow time for other development options to be fully explored with the property owner, City staff and the Heritage Advisory Committee.
Inclusion of a property in a Heritage Register doesn’t constitute Heritage Designation or any other form of heritage protection. Furthermore, having a building included in the Heritage Register doesn’t restrict the existing development potential of a property. The property owner is entitled to redevelop the property in accordance with the permitted uses and density of the existing zone of that property.
Requests from property owners to add buildings to or remove buildings from the Kelowna Heritage Register are reviewed by City staff. The City’s Policy & Planning Department will compile background information on the subject building and an evaluation of the building’s architectural and cultural history, context and integrity will be conducted in open meeting with the Heritage Advisory Committee. This process follows the Kelowna Heritage Register Evaluation Criteria.
Following the evaluation, the Policy & Planning Department will forward a recommendation to City Council regarding the proposed addition or removal of the building to the Register. The property owners will be advised of Council’s decision.
The historic place is the single-storey, wood-sided McEachern Tobacco Barn, built around 1912-13 as a large-scale farm building and located at 3139 Benvoulin Road, in Kelowna's South Pandosy / KLO neighbourhood.
The historic place is the 2.5-storey wood shingle-siding Brookdale (also known as the Renwick House), built at some time between 1904 and 1911 in the classic Foursquare style and relocated to 3430 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Benvoulin neighbourhood.
The historic place is the single-storey squared-log Pandosy Mission Root House, built in 1865 in Pioneer vernacular styling as part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey squared-log Brothers' Dwelling House, believed to have been built in 1865 (or perhaps 1860) as part of the multi-building Father Pandosy Mission complex at 3685 Benvoulin Road, in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey squared-log Christien House, built in 1890, and now a part of the Pandosy Mission complex, located at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey Mission Caretaker's Quarters, built around 1900 in the vernacular manner with squared logs and shingles, and now situated as part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission area.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey squared-log John McDougall House, built around 1865 in Pioneer vernacular styling, and now part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the single-storey log Pandosy Mission Blacksmith Shop, built around 1900 in the Joe Riche Valley and now part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex, located at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the two-storey round log Pandosy Mission Barn built in 1886 in Pioneer vernacular styling, and located at 3685 Benvoulin Road as part of the multi-building Pandosy Mission complex in Kelowna's Mission sector.
The historic place is the 1.5-storey squared-log Pandosy Mission Chapel, perhaps built in 1860 as the first building in the building complex of the Mission of the Immaculate Conception (formerly known as the Okanagan Mission; and now called the Father Pandosy Mission, or simply Pandosy Mission), located at 3685 Benvoulin Road in Kelowna's Mission sector.
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