The Grandmanor on Grand Boulevard is one of the last standing legacies from the ambitious 1900s. Conceived in 1906 as a centerpiece of the North Vancouver Land & Improvement Company, operated and founded in part by the Mohon brothers.

The Grandmanor became part of the promotional strategy to attracted people to the Grand Boulevard. The Grand Boulevard was to serve as the finest residential avenue in the province, a promenade for the wealthy.

Originally the boulevard was land sectioned off to serve as a fire beak and then later housing development was encouraged. The Grandmanor was built in 1912 for the Gill family, the first mayor for North Vancouver. 

The building design is formal, symmetrical, almost neoclassical, and mostly described as Edwardian. Tudor frame construction that’s built with a stone base and sided with cedar shingles.  The stones are collected from a local granite quarry by Greenwood Park.