Hotel Europe (Vancouver)

 hotel, heritage, flatiron building, haunted place, movie / film / TV location

Angelo Calori commissioned this six storey building as an hotel in 1909, his name and commissioning date is inscribed above the main doorway. The Hotel Europe was the earliest reinforced concrete structure in Vancouver and the first fireproof hotel in western Canada. It still has its original Italian tilework and leaded-glass windows extent. Glass tiles embedded in the sidewalk along Alexander Street were once used to provide light to the below ground saloon of the day. It was converted into affordable housing in1983

www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=796...

Filming location: "The Changeling" (1980)
The classic horror movie starring George C. Scott had several of its scenes filmed on location in Gastown, notably at the Hotel Europe and its rooftop patio (doubling as the Seattle Historical Society)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(1980_film)