Felton, Grimwade and Company warehouse later KELVINATOR HOUSE, 349-351 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Felton, Grimwade and Company warehouse later KELVINATOR HOUSE, 349-351 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
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1985
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:DATE: 1868, 1877, 1888-;ASSOCIATIONS: Felton, Grimwade and Company, wholesale druggists;DESIGNER:Barnes, Fredrick? 1877;Reed, Henderson & Smart 1888;BUILDERS:Linacre, John;Freeman, G TIMAGE: https://flic.kr/p/2m7xW93.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites source 80- REID, KEITH & JOHN R, 1976, MELBOURNE CBD STUDY AREA 7.REID, KEITH & JOHN R, 1976, MELBOURNE CBD STUDY AREA 7: 179-1868-9 originally 3 storey store, with added floor which has changed parapet; L shape plan returning to Bond St; brick and stone walls, timber floors, boarded ceilins cast iron columns; `not worthy of retention' although once an imposing building. Ground floor remodelled.1867 2 storey stone store with cellar and a stone and iron shed, entered from Bond St1868 vacant1869 new 3 storey stone and brick store owned by H Miller, occupied by Felton Grimwade..STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIAFlinders Lane looking east from Bond Street near Queen Street Date [ca. 1880] Identifier(s) H4563Shows 3 level ornate arcuated façade with basement arches http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/cjahgv/SLV_VOYAGER1800132alsoSears' Studios, Flinders Lane in 1870 (from Queen St. Looking east) Date(s) of creation: [1933 Dec. 16] Photograph printed by Sears' Studios in 1933 from original negatives taken ca. 1870.Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria, Accession No: H20746. Image No: b51956 https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/slv-pic-aab73546.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 72655 Miller, Hon H Melbourne VIC Warehouses; alterations Griffiths, F - 80 Connell St Hotham 1868 02 10 2432 MCC registration no 2432 [Burchett Index]. Fee 4.0.0 new store and alterations to an existing store, Bond St- (new store) Flinders Lane (alterations)Record 76152 Barnes, -; Felton, Grimwade & Co Melbourne VIC Warehouses Linacre, John W 1877 08 28 7330, MCC registration no 7330 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.10.0store, Flinders Lane76451 Reed, Henderson & Smart; Felton & Grimwade Melbourne VIC Warehouses; alterations Freeman, G T W - 9 Richmond Terrace, Rich. 1888 01 14 3233, MCC registration no 3233 [Burchett Index]. Fee 1.15.0 two additional storeys to warehouse Flinders Lane west - Felton & Grimwade.DOVE, H P. 1876. PLANS OF MELBOURNE: EXECUTED FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES.34 ' frontage to Flinders lane 3 storey Felton Grimwade & Co, also Felton Grimwade & Co 15'in Bond St 4 storey.MAHLSTEDT AND GEE 1888. STANDARD PLANS OF THE CITY OF MELBOURNEplan book compiled by Mahlstedt and Gee, surveyors and draughtsmen, Melbourne and Sydney, January 1888.34 Flinders Lane West- 33' frontage L-shape plan with 31' frontage to Bond St - Andrew jacks and Co Paper Manufacturers.VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY H7822-1883First land sale 1837, Block 4, Allotment 2, Michael Carr. 1840 - 2 buildings. Current building replaced 2 storey stone store with cellar & stone & iron shed. 1868 - site vacant.1869 - new building owner H Miller, occupied by Felton Grimwade.1877 - 2 buildings, 3 & 4 storeys, Felton, Grimwade & Co.1888 - Andrew Jacks & Co., Paper manufacturers.1905 - same.Poynter, JR 1967. Russell Grimwade Biography: 20,Built by firm in 1868`According to family tradition F. S. Grimwade first met Felton in 1863, a few weeks after arriving in Melbourne, when he went to live at a boarding house in St Kilda kept by a Mrs O’Reilly, `a good kind-hearted and common Irish widow’, and found Felton already installed there. The two men soon became friends. Felton at thirty-one was nine years older than the young newcomer, and was almost certainly of humbler social origin, but they had nevertheless much in common: both were East Anglians, both had arrived (by different routes) in the same profession, and both were by instinct businessmen of enterprise and acumen, though wary of merely speculative ventures. Theirs was never a demonstrative friendship—for forty years they addressed each other as ‘Felton’ and ‘Grimwade’ with conventional formality—but there is no record of serious disagreement between them at any time, and each seems to have taken for granted an absolute trust in the ability and probity of the other. No doubt they assessed the worth of Youngman’s business carefully and soberly, and having made their decision threw all their energies unreservedly into the new firm of Felton, Grimwade and Company which they established on 1 July 1867.The enterprise of the new partners was soon evident. Within a year they had built a new three-storey warehouse at 34 Flinders Lane, described as ‘the handsomest drug house in Australia’, and a factory in Flinders Street, at first producing only proprietary lines such as Kruse’s Insecticide and Kruse’s Magnesia, but soon extending production in whatever directions demand and the means permitted '.DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL1920349 Duerdin & Sainsbury, wholesale druggists.1942349-351 KELVINATOR HOUSE-349-351 Dobeli, G., carrier349-351 Medding, S. & Co, clothing manfrs349-351 Pope Products Ltd, manfrs' agents349-351 Floor Coverin gs Py Ld, carpet warenousemen349-351 Smith, D. G., carpet planner
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