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Donovan's buildings, 393-395 Abbotsford Street, North Melbourne

Graeme Butler and AssociatesJuly 1991

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Graeme Butler and Associates

Date of work:

July 1991

Reference number:

BIF-NORTH 100054 100055

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: North Melbourne and West Melbourne (BIF-NORTH)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

UnrestrictedPlease contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

General notes:

Grading as at 1991 : BPeriod : Mid VictorianGrantee : W Sydenham 1866The owner of this building, William Donovan, a butcher, also owned Erin Terrace, 8-14 Wood Street. This building was constructed in 1890 and was in Donovan's possession until after 1895.A two-storey, red brick shop and residence pair with a balustraded and piered parapet, dentillated cornice, architraved windows, cement Corinthian order pilasters at the upper level and stylised Tuscan pilasters at the lower. Timber shop fronts have survived, as have part of an iron Corporation pattern verandah. Of particular note are the shop fronts, facing Wood Street. Notable features include verandah, bricks, design and the corner sitingArchitecturally it is a successfully designed and near complete, if common commercial building type, with valuable surviving accessories such as the shop fronts and their details also part of two streetscapes: of high regional importance. Historically, owned by a locally prominent property developer, cum butcher, next to his other more extensive property in Wood Street: of local importance. It is an Important corner building in the Abbotsford and Wood Streets residential streetscapes and repeats the occurrence of large corner shops

Names:

City of MelbourneDonovan, William (1835-1898)

Topics:

Conservation studiesNorth and West Melbourne Conservation StudyMid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)1890-1899Butcher shopsShopfrontsVerandahsBrick

Places:

North Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Images, maps and artefacts

Record number:

1337189