Keywords: architecture building "Hotel Regent, 140 Hastings St. East, Vancouver, B. C. D. J. Elmer Proprietor T. H. Whelan Manager" Post Card. Novelty Manufacturing & Art Co., Ltd., Montreal. Regent Hotel, 160 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. Built 1913. Extant. "This late 19th-Century Chicago style building shows, in its arched verticle pier-and-spandrel rhythm, the influence, if not the sophistication, of the great American architect Louis Henry Sullivan. It is effective, nevertheless, as part of the Downtown Eastside's varied early 1900s streetscape." [From Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide by Harold Kalman (UBC Press, 1993)] "Hotel Regent, 140 Hastings St. East, Vancouver, B. C. D. J. Elmer Proprietor T. H. Whelan Manager" Post Card. Novelty Manufacturing & Art Co., Ltd., Montreal. Regent Hotel, 160 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC. Built 1913. Extant. "This late 19th-Century Chicago style building shows, in its arched verticle pier-and-spandrel rhythm, the influence, if not the sophistication, of the great American architect Louis Henry Sullivan. It is effective, nevertheless, as part of the Downtown Eastside's varied early 1900s streetscape." [From Exploring Vancouver: The Essential Architectural Guide by Harold Kalman (UBC Press, 1993)] |