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Spencer St Saint & Rogue Address: 582 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1876-99 Style: Victorian Building Type: Warehouse
Mail Exchange Hotel Address: 688 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Hotel Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
King St The King Hotel Address: 120 King St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1900-15 Style: Edwardian Building Type: Exchange, Office Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: As with the Wool Exchange (Winfield) Building before it, the Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association needed a central auction room for their produce and had taken steps to establish it near the wool warehouses served by the Yarra's ports. The Winfield held the Association's first auction rooms, (open in 1892, now demolished), which replaced the numerous wool sales conducted by cash agents at various venues throughout Melbourne. This building was developed as its replacement, by the Melbourne Wool Exchange Pty Ltd which was formed in May, 1922. 'To build, construct, enlarge, maintain, alter and improve buildings and premises, for the purpose of a Wool Exchange in the City of Melbourne'. Firms represented by the company included Dalgety & Co., New Zealand Land & Finance, Australian Estates Co., Elder Smith & Co., and the Victorian Producers' Co-Operative: in short, the most important wool agencies in the State. A limited design competition was held amongst six of the city's largest firms, yielding a short list of three, after appraisal by George Arnold, an estate agent, for economic viability. Further options were discussed with the chosen designers, (Purchas & Teague), including adding a floor and either totally or partially cementing the facade. Another tendering process yielded twelve prospective builders and, again, more options regarding the cement brand chosen, were priced. The Reinforced Concrete & Monier Pipe Construction Co. Pty Ltd was the successful contractor, at 35, 830 pounds and using Atlas brand white cement. This was August 1913, after the firm's engineer (John Monash) had been elected the Melbourne University Council and commenced lecturing there on reinforced concrete. The company's first board meeting was held in their building, in November, 1914. Their situation was 'a very convenient one, being close to Spencer Street Railway Station (gateway to rural climes), the Australian Club and Menzies Hotel, (the choice of most wool growers)'.
Hotel Animal Address: 204 King St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1900-15 Style: Edwardian Building Type: Factory – Pub Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
Queen St The Mitre Tavern Address: 5 Bank Pl, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Pub Status: Renovated 1920s Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: This two-storey hotel has existed since 1868 but has been altered several times, most significantly in the 1920s when it was given its medieval appearance. It is of significance as an early Melbourne hotel which has been popularly used by Melbourne's business and artistic community since the last century.
Architect H. Desbrowe Annear - Renovations (Requires checking), CBD study : retention essential; 1 and 3 originally similar - mixed period expression ; shown in outline on c/856 Melbourne plan.
Sherlock Holmes Pub Address: 415 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1916-25 Style: Inter War Building Type: Office Status: Restored Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Possibly a renovation of an earlier building, the facade is of a 1920's Greek revival character with parapet, fluted pilasters and a French note struck by the form of the capitals placed over the polished grey granite pilasters. Further renovations have eliminated all window joinery, creating a stark contrast between mass and void. Fluted friezes exist in panels as string moulds in the upper elevations, with blocks and roundels turning the corner for each frieze panel.
Natural History Public Bar Address: 401 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Office Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Notable features include an elaborate / high standard design of stone surfaces. Two stages of design are apparent in this building, the Renaissance palazzo mode evident in both. Commencing as a three-storied building, with aedicule windows at the first level and attic lights at the other, the building was extended a further three floors, again with the attic motif used at the upper level, with finely graduated window sizes between. The parapet is balustrades with a central raised entablature and the cornice is deeply bracketed above egg and dart and key motif friezes. A guilloche pattern frieze extends below the attic level, against the main facade. The whole is finished in freestone with quoining and the base level is of polished granite, all in a boldly executed classical revival. Side walls are of quarry-faced basalt, as evident along the east face, with accompanying vermiculated quoins. A wrought iron gate pair leads to a private laneway between this and the corner building, whilst fireproofing shutters are evident along the three levels facing the lane. Stepped floor levels above this, towards the rear of the building, show the influence of building regulations and required natural light angles.
The Irish Times Pub Address: 427 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1900-15 Style: Edwardian Building Type: Pub Status: Restored Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
Elizabeth St Kirk’s Pub Address: 382 Little Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Warehouse, Hotel – Pub Status: Renovated Heritage: No
Niagara Hotel Address: 383 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1926-39 Style: Inter War Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Renovated Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
Russel Street The Duke of Wellington Address: 146 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Partially Covered by Office Building Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: In 1860 Timothy Lane, a carpenter, was buried in an abbey - like stone tomb in the Old Melbourne Cemetery; he was aged 50 years and had been a colonist since arriving in 1841. Ten years earlier he had applied as owner - builder to build a large stone house in Flinders Street East. His architect was Richard Dalton. The same Richard Dalton appears to have successfully applied for hotel licence for the premises, in 1853, after others had tried with little success. Described as a boarding house of 14 rooms, a cellar and kitchen in 1851, it was reputedly expanded to its present size soon after the licence was granted. Other buildings adjoining in Flinders and Russell Streets, were absorbed at a later date. Description: Notable features include lettering cut into stone. A two - storeyed stuccoed brick corner hotel, with spayed corner and attached bar entrance. A simple gabled pediment draws attention to the corner, in what is a typical early hotel form. The hotel name is incised in stone at the parapet (once gold - filled, now painted over) and this suggests more stonework concealed under the new render. The ground level has been altered, sympathetically to the upper level, for the hotel use. Statement of Significance: The corner section of the Duke of Wellington Hotel was originally built as a stone house for a Timothy Lane, in 1850. It was licensed as a hotel in 1853. It was later expanded to incorporate the adjoining buildings and given a uniform external treatment. Among the earliest dozen hotels known to survive in Victoria and the oldest known (compared with Black Eagle Hotel, Lonsdale Street and Oddfellows Hotel, Little Lonsdale Street, 1854), in Melbourne C.A.D. also it possesses some valuable early freestone details (name, parapet). It is the oldest hotel still operating in Melbourne.
The Crafty Square Address: 127 Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1926-39 Style: Inter War Building Type: Pub Status: Heritage: No
The Golden Nugget Hotel Address: 117-121 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: NA Style: NA Building Type: Pub Status: Intact Heritage: No
The Carlton Club Address: 193 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1926-39 Style: Inter War Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Notable features include unpainted cement render, unpainted decorative brickwork, shop verandah and an elaborate / high standard design of cement rendered surfaces on parapet. Architect Sydney Smith Ogg & Serpell
Exford Hotel Address: 199 Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1900-15 Style: Edwardian Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Renovated Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Another Exford Hotel preceded this one from the 19th century. It was three storey, brick and part of its present site was taken up with a three storey warehouse. Its first owner, A J Staughton and before him, Simon Staughton, had owned hotels from much earlier
(Williamstown). Some of his later reconstructions resembled this one, in their relatively conservative approach to architectural stylistic changes in the Edwardian period, possibly due to a common architect for each. This hotel, and others, was designed by R B Whitaker. The builders were Tate & Townsend and their task was to "re-erect the Oxford Hotel". Whitaker has also designed the Sir Robert Peel Hotel in North Melbourne, a similarly conservative brick corner hotel. The Staughton family had begun in the colony with Simon Staughton, who had arrived at Port Phillip in 1839 and taken up large pastoral leases (Brisbane Ranges, Exford) from 1842. By his death, in 1863, other leases at Mt Cotterill, Pykes Creek and Mooradooranook (among others) had been undertaken with partner, James Simpson. His sons (Staughton Brothers, Harry, Stephen and Samuel) continued with vast free holdings at Exford, Eynesbury, Brooklyn and Staughton Vale. Exford homestead was claimed by the family as the first two storey house built outside of Melbourne. Samuel's son, Arthur, held a large property south of Terang and was the family nominee for the Exford's building permit application. Of passing interest, is minor renovation work done there in 1956, to the design of architects A & K Henderson and Associates, a formerly large firm which had been carried on in a much reduced form by a member of the Staughton family. Description: The Exford Hotel was built in 1914 to replace an earlier hotel first known as the Sportsman's Arms and built in 1856. It is a rare intact example of an Edwardian hotel in the city and creates an impressive gateway to the "Chinatown" precinct of Little Bourke Street. Historically it is a late entry to a chain of hotels built for the Staughton family, which hitherto had made their fortune from grazing.
Swanston St Queensberry Hotel Address: 593 Swanston St, Carlton VIC 3053 Year: 1876-99 Style: Victorian Building Type: Pub Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan Description: Notable features include ground floor openings intact, elaborate/high standard design of cement rendered surfaces
The Oxford Scholar Address: 427 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1876-99 Style: Victorian Building Type: Hotel Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan Description: Notable features include ground level high integrity; corner site.
MC Pub Address: LGK2/3/211 La Trobe Street Melbourne Central Lower Ground Floor, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1986 and 1991 Style: NA Building Type: Shopping Mall Status: Renovated Heritage: NA
Melbourne Central Lions Address: 211 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 2005 Style: NA Building Type: Shopping Mal Status: Renovated Heritage: NA
The Charles Dickens Tavern Address: 290 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1876-99 Style: Victorian Building Type: Office, Retail Arcade Status: Restored Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Melbourne's grandest arcade, the Block was constructed in two sections in 1891 and 1893 for the famous Melbourne financier, Benjamin Fink. The architect was D C Askew. Everything about the building is of the highest quality and reflective of the wealth of 19th century Melbourne and Victoria. It is of seminal importance to the social history of the central city and derives its name from the 19th century tradition of "doing the block" around Melbourne's fashionable shopping streets.
Young and Jacksons Address: 1 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Residence, Hotel – Pub Status: Restored Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
History: Melbourne's most famous hotel, it began as a butchery on the corner in 1854 and was converted to the Princes Bridge Hotel in 1861. It has since extended along Swanston and Flinders Streets. It is a building of great social significance to Melbourne and especially its travellers and has been something of a barometer of the city's moral codes since its inception.
Exhibition St The Coopers Inn Address: 282 Exhibition St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1876-99 Style: Victorian Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Renovated – Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan History: Hotelier, John Byng, owned and Jones & Alexander built, what was to be a large "dwelling house" at the Stephen (Exhibition) and Little Lonsdale Street corners. Despite this initial description, the 1854 rate book qualifies the "house" as of stuccoed brick and stone and possessing a bar, tap-room, cellar, kitchen and 19 bedrooms. It was the European or Digby Hotel, kept by one Isaac Wallace. Byng, as owner, made alterations to the Digby Hotel, in 1855, with builders Aldous & Crowle. Byng took up the license in 1857, transferring from the Victoria Hotel, in Little Bourke Street. James Donald, the owner after 1858, leased it to James Cooper as Cooper's Family Hotel. Under this sign, it was extended to 30 rooms in the 1870s and eventually closed, in 1912, after a series of licensees. It became, in turn, a
lodging house, a Chinese furniture factory, a branch of the Melbourne City Mission, in the 1930s and Sister Grace's Home for Girls: all predictable occupancies for the "back slums", particularly for a former hotel. Hotel closure in this area, during 1912, was prevalent, arising from the government license reduction policy (see Exploration and Leitrim Hotels). Description: Notable features include; relates to streetscape to south; corner building; early hotel site, later facade. Probably commencing as a two storeyed hotel, it is likely that the ornate parapet balustrading, pilaster capitals and bracketing arose with the 1870s alterations; the hotel being shown at near its present form in a view of c1874. The string mould, at the third floor level, may be a remnant of the 1853 parapet. However, the unusual freestone sills used in the lower levels are also visible in the top (attic) storey windows. The presumed corner bar entry is elegantly framed by an implied Tuscan order portico, as are the adjacent window openings, divided by superposed pilasters.
Spring St The Imperial Hotel Address: 2-8 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Hotel – Pub Status: Intact Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
Description: There are no notable features. Hotel since 1863. Position, opposite Parliament House precinct. A much altered conservative Renaissance revival, stuccoed facade, with most lower openings now replaced. The north side wall, facing a R.O.W., shows bluestone rubble walling of an earlier construction but the south face, fronting Bourke Street, has remnants of the upper level openings with their gable and segment arched pediments resting on long brackets and cemented architraves around upper windows. Here the cornice line has metopes and a string mould defines the entablature. Statement of Significance: The two storey buildings that today comprise the Imperial Hotel and a shopping row are believed to date from 1864 but these may have been extended from earlier single storey shops erected from 1856. The building is a landmark at the top of Bourke Street and provides an important 19th century context to Parliament House.
Lygon St The John Curtin Hotel Address: 29 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053 Year: 1850-75 Style: Early Victorian Building Type: Pub Status: Enlarged 1971 Heritage: Conservation Management Plan
Description: The John Curtin Hotel, formerly the Lygon Hotel, dates from c1860. It is listed in the Sands and McDougall directory of that year as "hotel erecting". The following year the building is listed as the Lygon Hotel, with William Stewart the licensee. The building was remodelled, and probably enlarged, in the inter-War period. It was known as the Lygon Hotel until 1971, when its name was changed to the John Curtin Hotel, apparently after its then proprietor, J Curtin. The John Curtin Hotel is double storey rendered brick public house, of asymmetrical composition, on a corner site. The principal elevation, to Lygon Street, is divided at ground level by a row of face brick piers, which have rendered spandrels between, forming an arcade. A wide cornice, supported on plain brackets, separates this from the upper level, which is roughcast rendered and has a row of tall rectangular windows with plain rendered surrounds. There are two slightly projecting window bays, one situated at the corner, which extend up to above the parapet line, which is surmounted by a wide rendered capping with repetitive block-like ornament. Statement of Significance: The John Curtin Hotel is of local historical and aesthetic interest. The site has been occupied by a hotel since 1860, and the present building, a bold composition of typical inter-War elements and a local landmark, may contain remnants of the original 1860s building.