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Structure Type: built works - dwellings -public accommodations - hotels
Designers: Guenther and Van Aken, Architects (firm); Emil Carl Friedrich Guenther (architect); T. Van Aken (architect)
Dates: constructed 1898-1899
Overview
This is one of two hotels designed by the firm of Guenther and Van Aken for New Westminster, BC, in 1898-1899, the other being the Windsor Hotel. These hotels were probably erected to lodge the increaing numbers of visitors to the city at he beginning of the gold rush in both Alaska and the Klondike Territory of Canada. The Hotel Fraser was sited on Front Street in New Westminster. (See "Sources," in Building the West The Early Architects of British Columbia, Donald Luxton, ed., [Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 2003], p. 503.)
Demolition
The Hotel Fraser was torn down.
PCAD id: 23329