Hampton Hotel

The Hampton Hotel, formerly the Hampton Rooms (built 1912) was designed, built, and owned by prominent Vancouver architect and businessman Edgar Baynes.

The hotel reflects Vancouver’s pre-First World War boom when large numbers of single Japanese males immigrated into Canada, and in particular to Powell Street, to find work.
In this building we see the City of Vancouver’s 1910 Lodging House By-Law which required individual small rooms, each with natural light and ventilation, with access to communal washing facilities. The by-law was developed in response to the slum-like conditions in the surrounding areas and other concentrations of single males in the commercial district.

The Hampton remains in use as boarding rooms and this has permitted the retention of many of the original internal arrangements.

Source

Canada's Historic Places, Building Vancouver

More information

https://buildingvancouver.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/baynes-and-horie/