Male Nurses #10 / Apartment

          This building, demolished rather quickly near the end to last century, was the exclusive domain of the male nurses at Essondale/ Riverview Hospital.
 Today where it once stood proudly is an area used as a green waste pile, by the grounds maintenance crews, who at the present time are severely lacking :( .  The apartment was located above and between West Lawn and Pennington Hall.  Nothing remains to remind anybody that it was there at all.

Apartment House, Essondale, B.C.   E.H. Shockley "contractor", March 14, 1929.
West Lawn in the left background
photo: Charles Edgar Stride, The Stride Studios, New Westminster. 

    View or download the original image at:  Van. Arch. A23175

 Apartment House, Essondale, B.C.   E.H. Shockley "contractor", April 23, 1929
photo: Charles Edgar Stride, The Stride Studios, New Westminster 1843-A

View or download the original image at Van. Arch. A23176

Apartment House, Essondale, B.C.    E.H. Shockley "contractor", April 23, 1929
photo: Charles Edgar Stride, The Stride Studios, New Westminster 1843-B

View or download the original image at Van. Arch. A23177

Apartment House, Essondale, B.C.   E.H. Shockley "contractor", Sept. 25, 1929
photo: Charles Edgar Stride, The Stride Studios, New Westminster  2041

View or download the original image at Van. Arch. A23174

date unknown,(ca.1940-50's) from the Riverview museum, (now closed )

    I will tell the story of the illustrious contractor, Ernest Harold Shockley, at a later date.
Unknown what the building cost to build at this time, but I know that the government of the day was going to defer many construction projects at the time, because of the Depression, but with the Depression came lower costs for labor, materials, etc, so they went ahead with it and a few more buildings on the property.