COLE'S BOOK ARCADE also Melbourne Sports. Depot later Allwares, 255 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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COLE'S BOOK ARCADE also Melbourne Sports. Depot later Allwares, 255 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 109294
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2023:__________________________________________________DATE: 1918 renovation;ASSOCIATIONS: Ramsay Pty Ltd, bootery; COLE'S BOOK ARCADE; Melbourne Sports. Depot;DESIGNER: A A Fritsch 1918;Period: Edwardian_______________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM___________________________Victorian Heritage Inventory H7822-12971866 - building on site. 1880 - 2 storey building1888 - 1 storey building (2 storeys at rear).___________________________CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION1918-May 1323 additions to restaurant, £5001927 shopfront1935 cantilver verandahsundry works to 1989___________________________MAHLSTEDT FIRE INSURANCE PLAN SERIES STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIASeries 1, map 1019102 storey masonry at front, 3 storey at rear on lane, Mrs Lim Kee confectionner pasted over `..sen, confectioner'___________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWIn 1918, architect A A Fritsch invited tenders for alterations to a brick shop at 255 Swanston Street (Herald 11 April 1918:12). Tyre manufacturers and repairers, Economic Rubber Works, occupied the building in January 1920, and in 1929, Coles Book Arcade moved from 250 Collins Street to the premises (Figure 4) (Argus 31 January 1920:5; Age 11 May 1929:4). ...251-253 Swanston Street is a two storey Edwardian building with rather austere classical detail, a plain parapet and a pair of windows to the upper floor. It is quite legible as is the adjacent similarly scaled 255 Swanston Street dating from 1918 and designed by notable architect A A Fritsch. This building has distinctive ashlar incised lines in the stucco to part of the upper floor and a large arch-headed central window formerly divided into four panes with top lights. The parapet has a central raised section for lettered signs (Figure 4). ...Figure 4. A view of the west side of Swanston Street, between Little Bourke and Lonsdale streets, c1930-40, showing, in rectangle from left, 237 Swanston Street; T Roper Surgical Appliances 239-241 Swanston Street; Arthur J. Veall's Electrical Radio Stores 243-249 Swanston Street; Langsford Personality Clothes 251-253 Swanston Street, and Cole's Book Arcade 255 Swanston Street. (Source: Crothers c1930-1940, State Library of Victoria)___________________________NEWSPAPERS:1930COLE'S BOOK ARCADE,255 Swanston St., Melbourne.1948Melbourne Sports. Depot, 551Elizabeth st., and 255 Swanston st. advert1951 sold___________________________________Sands & McDougall Directory of Victoria1925255 Ramsay Pty Ltd, bootery
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