Roedde House Museum

Organization Type: Arts, Culture & Heritage
Address: 1415 Barclay Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6G 1J6
Website: http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/about/information/plan-your-visit-xbe

Roedde House Museum, in Vancouver’s West End, is a late-Victorian Heritage house museum in the Queen Anne revival style. Built in 1893 for the family of Gustav Roedde, the city’s first printer and bookbinder, it has been faithfully restored to reflect the day-to-day life of a middle class, immigrant family at the turn of the last century.

Since the Museum’s official opening in May of 1990, the Roedde House Preservation Society has run Roedde House as a threefold facility:

∙ A museum with guided tours, including an active schools program,
∙ A venue for music and other entertainment,
∙ A rental facility for small receptions.

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