Deutschesland Café
City of Vancouver Heritage Building
This unusual building is one of the few surviving Art Deco buildings in downtown Vancouver. Its roofline an exuberant crenelated cornice built in cast concrete and designed in a curvilinear waterfall theme. Downing is best known as the architect of the Art Deco Federal Buildings in Prince Rupert and Powell River. The original owner of this was the nearby Hudson's Bay Company, and it was tenanted by the Deutschesland Café until 1939.
Marker is on Seymour Street just south of Dunsmuir Street, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
