Power Block Architects: N. S. Hoffar, 1888. Townley & Matheson, 1929 This rare example of an art deco exterior employing colourful terra cotta with Egyptian overtones was designed by the architects of Vancouver's city hall as part of a 1929 building renovation. The interior structure dates from a saloon built in 1888 for Captain William Power, then known as the "Mayor" of North Vancouver's Moodyville. It was expanded and renovated by owner Dominic Burns of the Burns meat-packing family in 1911, the year he also built the nearby 14-storey Vancouver Block with its huge landmark clock.