Patricia Hotel

Completed in 1913 with rooms costing $1 a day, the Patricia was a bustling social hub for decades. It hosted boxing matches in its basement and jazz performers like Jelly Roll Morton in the upstairs lounge.  In later years it fell into disrepair, but was recently purchased by the City to provide supportive housing for the recently evicted Strathcona campers. (1917 photo from Vancouver City Archives).