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A sparsely settled area until the turn of the century, West End is now located in the most densely populated area of the Lower Mainland. It s an active town sharing the peninsula with the Downtown, Central Business District and Stanley Park.
In the 1890s, grand Victorian homes for upper class families replaced the largely logging area of West End. However, the development of West End as a high-heeled area subsided when Shaughnessy started to develop following introduction of the Canadian Pacific Railways (CPR) in the area in 1910.
Apartments were built as homes on Robson, Denman and Davie were developed as shops and larger homes converted into rooming houses. The second stage of development began.
Lots of apartments constructed by known architects still stood down Robson Street, a streetcar line, today which government had protected.
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A city building regulation, which took effect until 1956, restricted early masonry buildings to six floors while wood-framed buildings to three floors. These were the community s first apartments. Most notable is the Manhattan (now a housing cooperative) designed by Parr and Fee, both well-known architects of the time.
The apartment craze continue to hover over the West End recurring almost every 10 years or more after the second stage of development in 1910. Thus, between the 1930s and 1940s, the third wave of apartment boom came in. These apartments of Tudor-inspired facades were low rise structures with impressive art décor.
The fourth stage occurred in the 1950s with the redevelopment of the West End. This was done in response to zoning changes. However, most high rise buildings and apartments took place between 1962 and 1975.
These building booms had created familiar skylines which can be seen in West End to this day.
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