57-61 Peel Street, West Melbourne
Graeme Butler and AssociatesJul-91
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57-61 Peel Street, West Melbourne
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Jul-91
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BIF-NORTH 107479 525859 525861
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Grading as at 1991 : DPeriod : Early Victorian (1865)Grantee : J Harbison 1859These shops and residences were all built c1865, possibly by Thomas Pearson, a contractor, who retained 61 and 63 Peel Street and sold the other two to Mrs Chadwick, possibly the wife of Thomas Chadwick, a publican of Flemington. Pearson lived in one of his houses until he sold them in 1871, later owners being Mrs Lawson and Mrs White who owned them for over twenty years. Mrs Chadwick's houses were sold in 1878, later owners being A & M McSweeney. Some of the tenants were of quite long standing, e.g. John Geary and Miss Mary Geary, a music teacher : probably his sister (1870-1885) ; Bridget Gaffney (1881-1897)Of note is a permit application for one two-storey house in Peel Street by Mrs Chadwick in 1864; the builder was Charles Fewster. However, whether built by Fewster of Pearson, all houses have similar characteristics [Melbourne Building Permit Applications 385/1864]A row of parapetted two-storey houses with formerly two level cast-iron timber verandahs which are now partly shopfronts. 61-63 has a gabled parapet entablature, with scrolls, which bears the name Peel Terrace AD 1868. (Ratebooks give an addition of two rooms per house in 1869 which indicates general improvements in 1868), 57 has simple corniced parapets. Common brick and stucco corniced chimneys are shared by the row, as is the stucco sidewalled ornament.Architecturally, early examples of a common type but much altered, being changed in use, and part of an isolated group of mixed use structures: of local importance. Historically, indicative of former generally residential nature of street, also an example (part), of owner-builder speculation: of local interest.Notable features include balconies with French doors.
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