This is one of Vancouver's oldest wooden buildings, located at 100 E Hastings St.
When it was built sometime around 1890, it stood "alone in the bushes of Hastings Street; there were some Chinese shacks on Dupont Street near it, but on Hastings Street it was the only building," according to Vancouver resident W F Findlay in a 1931 interview with the city's archivist.
It was badly damaged during the Chinatown riots in 1908 but somehow managed to survive that and everything else that subsequent years threw at it.
Currently, the ground floor is home to a business called New Brandiz Fast Food.
John Bentley is an architectural photographer who has photographed the inside and outside of thousands of buildings around Vancouver. Using images from the Vancouver Archives he offers a glimpse of the past and present on his site Vancouver Now & Then.
