Friday, October 8, 2010
Enter on the Side

Bush covers the front door entrance to the house at 2840 Capilano Road.  It also covers most of the rest of the house.  So the steps and porch entrance in the photo above is on the south side of the house facing the driveway. The house was built some time before 1952 as the Building Permit Book at the North Vancouver Archives reports that was the year a $2500 addition was constructed by R. Beachtold.  And the house was built by 1950 since that year's City Directory lists Rudolph and Bertha E. Berchtold as the owners then.  Rudolph Berchtold worked as a structural iron worker.  Notice that the name in the Building Permit Book was spelled "Beachtold" and in the City Directory is was spelled "Berchtold."  The Building Permit Book also lists a $500 garage was built in 1956.  Again by R. Beachtold.

The name continued to be spelled Berchtold is the 1955, 1960, and 1971 City Directories where it listed them as the owners in these years.  Rudolph Berchtold also continued to work as a structural iron worker, in the year 1971 for Kootenay Engineers.  In 1955 and 1960 Bertha Berchtold reported that she was employed as a stenographer for VLA Canada.

Address plate (rusty) and stone and cement block  yard entrance wall

In 1980 Phillippi Brunelle was a resident in the house at 2840 Capilano Road.  In 1991 and 1995 the owner of the house was L. Groendyk.  Artistic Gardening and Landscaping was also listed at the address.  L. Groendyk and Artistic Gardening and Landscaping reported that they had been at the address for over 9 years. Artistic Gardening and Landscaping was also listed in the year 1999/2000 North and West Phone Directory as being at 2840 Capilano Road.

In February 2010 The Ditton Group presented to the North Vancouver Council the proposal for a 14 unit multifamily building to be constructed on the sites of 2832 and 2840 Capilano Road.  It will be wheelchair accessible and have underground parking.  (See Link.)

Demolition: Permit applied for in September 2010.

Photo: Colored digital photos above taken in September 2010 by SW.
              Black and white photos taken in November 2009 as part of Demolition
             and Construction Project by SW on file at the North Vancouver Archives.
Link: http://www.dnv.org/upload/documents/Council_PH/phm090623.htm