4 Downtown Texaco Station 5 Kootenay Motors 6 Shanti Yoga Studio 7 Connect Hearing 8 Former Kootenay Co-op 9 Enso Hair Design 10 Terrace Apartments 11 Nelson Transfer Co. Ltd. 12 Memorial Park Band Shell 13 Cohoe & Davis Building 15 New Star Cafe 16 Nelson Police / Public Library 17 BC Telephone Company 18 Wait’s News 19 Capitol Theatre

20 Bowladrome 21 Medical Arts Building 23 McKay & Stretton Ltd. 24 Wood Vallance Building 26 Second Greyhound Station 27 Palm Dairies Plant 28 New Grand Hotel 29 Liberty Food Centre 30 Senior Citizens Centre 32 Civic Centre Auditorium 33 Nelson Medical Centre 34 Nelson Chrysler 35 Super Valu / Extra Foods 36 Old Scandinavian Church

Building or business no longer there

Walking Tour trail

We can consider the four blocks around the intersection of Baker Street and Ward Street as the heart of the city. By the early 20th century the lots along Baker Street between Hall Street in the east and Falls Street. in the west were mostly built up with commercial buildings. Victoria Street was, with a few exceptions, a dividing line between commercial buildings on the north side and residential houses on the south side, what we now refer to as Uphill.

North of Vernon Street, Lake Street and Front Street were, with the exception of Chinatown, a hodgepodge of mainly industrial factories, merchants’ ware-houses and temporary storage places.

Highway 3A

Herridge Lane

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They grouped along the all-important Hall Street corridor down to the CPR rail yard and the steamship landing.

It is in these fringe areas of the city that we find most of the Modernist buildings.

The 100 and 200 blocks of Baker Street were developed in the 1920s. Hendryx Street was transformed from a warehouse district in the 1930s with the building of the Civic Centre, Chrysler Dealership and the Scandinavian Church.

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Art Deco and beyonda Walking Tour through Nelson’s architecture of the 1920’s to the 1960’sby Peter Bartl

Buildings along the walking tour that have been demolished or altered beyond recognition.

Art Decoand beyond

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How the corner of Ward and Vernon Street has changed.