Pearson & Chalmers workshop, 60-66 Hardware Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Pearson & Chalmers workshop, 60-66 Hardware Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 104666 104667 104668
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:__________________________________________________Period: VictorianDATE: 1885-6;ASSOCIATIONS: Pearson & Chalmers;DESIGNER: Pearson & Chalmers;BUILDER: Pearson & ChalmersNotable Features: Loading doors part original..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceHistoryShown in 1888 as the address of Pearson and Chalmers, this two-storey warehouse with basement was owned and occupied by Joseph Pearson, a carpenter, from 1885-6 when it replaced a pair of four-room brick houses.Pearson & Chalmers were also the builders of what were described as 'two workshops' in August, 1885. The architect, if any, was not recorded.After the financially difficult year of 1893, the new owner was Thomson's Trust and tenants varied from Winters &Jackson, through the 1890s, to Sydney Day, H, Ross &D. Jackson in c1905. Ernest Treadwell was the next owner during a period when adjacent store owners, Penman & Dalziel, were the lessees. Treadwell's own Treadwell Press was to later occupy 62 for a long period with representatives of associated and other industries including Dunham Displays (60), silk screen printers, and Samuel Taylor, a brush maker (66).DescriptionA warehouse face-brick row of three, with central parapet entablature with gabled pediment and flanking piers. The framed panel is now blank with some indication of previous lettering. Lion masks set on blocks, divide the cornice into three lengths and catheads survive on two of the three stores (60-64).The brickwork is in Flemish bond and tuck-pointed in black cement, placed above a coursed random rubble basalt plinth. Openings are generally complete although refitted (see 66 for original form).External IntegrityBricks and stone painted (66), lower loading doors and basement lights refitted on 60-64 and air units added to 66. Sympathetic flag signs added to 62, 66 and a mock period lamp put over 64 entry. Other unsympathetic signs. Trim colours of 60-64 are sympathetic.StreetscapeFaces the valuable Dynan's Buildings and completes the 19th century warehouse precinct of this part of Hardware Street.SignificanceA relatively well preserved factory/warehouse group in a notable warehouse precinct..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 76320 Pearson & Chalmers Melbourne VIC Warehouses Pearson & Chalmers - Wright's Lane 1885 08 24 1689 -MCC registration no 1689 [Burchett Index]. Fee 4.4.0-two workshops, Lonsdale near off Lonsdale St - Wright's Place.Lovell Chen 2016 , Guildford and Hardware Lane Heritage Study`Comparative AnalysisComparatively, this group of warehouses form part of a larger collection of similarly aged brick warehouses in the immediate area. Other examples include those at 60-66 Hardware Street (HO666), which date from c. 1887, and were constructed as a row of three, face brick warehouses; and Throstle's stores (sic) at 106 Hardware Street (HO1045), a pair of imposing four-storey bichrome brick Victorian warehouses constructed in 1889. ..'.NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)1886https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196011431Letter about `...a report of an accident which occurred at a building in course of erection in Hopkins-street, Footscray. for which Messrs. Pearson and Chalmers were the architects, and we were the contractors and builders. That report. as already explained by Messrs. Pearson and Chalmers, contained numerous misstatements calculated to injure their good name, and now. that all claims arising out of the accident have been amicably settled, we deem it to be our duty thus publicly to state that Messrs. Pearson and Chalmers were in no way responsible for the accident, and that no blame whatever attaches to them in respect to the accident. In our opinion the strong wind and the greenness of the work were mainly, if not altogether, the cause of the accident. —Yours, &c., CARTER and HULL,Contractors for the building.1890https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8594882BUILDING ACCIDENT.THREE MEN INJURED.A narrow escape from a serious accident was last night experienced by the workmen engaged in dismantling the old Bush Inn, at the corner of Elizabeth street and Little Bourke street. The contract for the work has been let to Messrs. Pearson and Chalmers, who have had gangs of been working night and day. .
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