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Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Now & Then: One of Vancouver's oldest wooden buildings still stands on Hastings St

It's not the oldest, but certainly one of them!
John Bentley - Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Now & Then
100 East Hastings
The building at 100 E Hastings St doesn't have much of a pedigree, but it does happen to be one of the oldest wooden buildings in the city.John Bentley/Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Now & Then and the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives

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 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­resident W F Findlay  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.

100 E Hastings
The building at 100 E Hastings St doesn't have much of a pedigree, but it does happen to be one of the oldest wooden buildings in the city. John Bentley/Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Now & Then and the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives

John Bentley is an architectural photographer who has photographed the inside and outside of thousands of buildings around Vancouver. Using images from the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives he offers a glimpse of the past and present on his site .