Hotel Europe, Vancouver
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Hotel Europe is a unique building in the Gastown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, built at the intersecting streets of Alexander and Powell in 1908–1909. Also known as the Angelo Calori Building for the hotelier who built the building, the 6 storey building is one of a few flatiron buildings in Canada. The main floor, now a poster shop, was for many years a popular tiled-floor beer parlour. Downstairs from the beer parlour was a large barber shop, which was much larger in size than the building's main floors as it extended underneath the sidewalk on both sides of the building in what are known as "areaways", a once-common feature of Gastown commercial buildings used to load and unload freight through trapdoors in the sidewalk. The Europe's areaways have now been filled in.
