Woolf's shops & residences, 226-228 Russell Street, Melbourne
Graeme Butler and Associates01/07/1989
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Woolf's shops & residences, 226-228 Russell Street, Melbourne
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01/07/1989
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BIF-CITY 529403
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2024:__________________________________________________DATE: 1866-8;ASSOCIATIONS: Woolf, Henry hotelier;DESIGNER: Woolf?;BUILDER: Woolf, Henry___________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceShops and Residences 226-228 Russell StreetHistoryBuilt: 1866-8A corner allotment granted to the redoubtable W.FA. Rucker in 1841. it was divided into seven major lots. This site was a sub-lot of the corner, sold as two Russell Street frontages (65, 25 feet) and one to Lonsdale (25'6 in 1843 to David Ogilvy who resold to David Young and William Harper in 1846). They mortgaged both sub lots in that May, gaining £81 for themselves and paying a £100 debt to Charles Payne. This lot was sold separately in 1850 to Henry Conway, who reunited it with the other two blocks for a £600 mortgage. By default James Murphy became the owner of this package in 1851, commencing a series of mortgages in the inflated terms of the gold era.Henry Woolf leased the adjoining corner Cross Keys Hotel to Dan Hamilton in 1856. After Woolf's death the hotel and this property were conveyed to saw miller, James Girvin.Henry Woolf, care of the Travellers' Rest Hotel applied to build two shops in Russell Street 'next (to) the Cross Keys Hotel' in 1866. However, the first rate book entry is in 1868 for two brick shops., each with three rooms with long-term tenants including Henry Weser, boot maker, in the 1870s-1880s and John Clancy's tea rooms (226) which probably evolved from Maxwell's dining hall of the late 1880s via Mrs. Ridley’s tea rooms of the early 1900s. A Chinese laundry existed at 228 as far back as c1910, when Loon Kee was the proprietor. Con Yossiffides' cafe was at 226 and the Nu-Star Dry Cleaning Co. depot was the modern equivalent of a Chinese laundry in the 1950s. Woolf’s executors and, from the 1930s, Joseph Woolf were the owners until c1946-50 when Pierce Cody Pty Ltd halted the Woolf association. William Wolf by coincidence or otherwise was also practising in hotel architecture, late last century. A photograph c1870 shows this shop with a street verandah.DescriptionSimilar in form and scale to the original Cross Keys Hotel, this pair has the restrained classicism of early Melbourne commercial buildings, with typical cement cornice and architrave mouldings. Remnants of street verandah flashing, kerb mounting and cover mould survive along with early shopfront panelled soffits. The rear elevation reveals unpainted brickwork (using small format bricks?) set in Colonial bond.External IntegrityGround level is new, the street verandah has gone and a 'Modern sympathetic' street verandah has been unsuccessfully applied to the building causing damage to the wall and scale of the facades. Signs added at side and bricks painted.StreetscapePart of an early 20th and 19th century commercial group.SignificanceLittle ground-level integrity to the 19th century limits the pair's expression of the precinct's historical themes. However, the upper level is near intact and typical of the conservative classicism abounding at the time in Melbourne.Contributes to precinct___________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites Victoria Illustrated: 166;___________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYcites: VICTORIAN TITLES OFFICE search notes for application 5050; CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS 1602; DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL; Municipal rate books [RB]___________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 73062 Woolf, Henry - Travellers Rest Hotel - Nicholson St Melbourne VIC Shops Woolf, Henry 1866 08 3 1602-MCC registration no 1602 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.0.0 two shops, Russell - next Cross Keys Hotel___________________________City of Melbourne i-Heritageas 161 TO 173 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE 3000Heritage GradingsBuilding Grading Streetscape Level Laneway LevelC 3Conservation Study Study Date StatusLittle Bourke Precinct Study - Graeme Butler, no date AdoptedPeriod 1916-25 - Inter WarIntegrity FairCondition FairOriginal Building Type Shop/ResidenceHistory Not AssessedDescription/Notable Features No. 169 once part of row.Statement of SignificanceRecommended Alterations Nos. 161 - 173 - Verandah new ( sympathetic - reinstate original design) Bricks painted (inappropriate - remove by approved method) Ground level new, signs new (upper) (inappropriate - reinstate original design or sympathetic alternative) No. 169 - Bricks painted ( inappropriate - remove by approved method) Verandah new ( inappropriate - reinstate original design or sympathetic alternative) Window blocked ( inappropriate - reinstate original design)Other Comments No. 169 - Graded D___________________________
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