Siege of Paris Cyclorama with shops and warehouses, later Georges Hostess Store, 166-186 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
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Siege of Paris Cyclorama with shops and warehouses, later Georges Hostess Store, 166-186 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2022:__________________________________________________Period: Inter-WarConstruction date: 1891Notable features: Unusual style and ornament.DATE: 1891 (part), 1908 façade;ASSOCIATIONS: Melbourne Cyclorama Company Ltd. 1891; James Graham's trustees 1907;DESIGNERS: Tayler, Lloyd & Fitts and William Pitt 1891; Oakden & Ballantyne 1907-8;BUILDERS: Rochelle Gover & Smith also Waring and Rowden, 1891; F Shillabere 1907-8..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites Lewis, Nigel 1976 Historic and Architectural Survey of the Central City of Melbourne Bourke Street, east, Area 8 of the survey commissioned by the Historic Buildings Preservation Council: 27 shopfront replaced, entrance interior altered, otherwise intact - not recommended for the Historic Buildings Register (no mention of `Siege of Paris')__________________________________________________NIGEL LEWIS DECEMBER 1976, HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF MELBOURNE BOURKE STREET, EAST AREA 8 OF THE SURVEY COMMISSIONED BY THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS PRESERVATION COUNCILGEORGES HOSTESS STORE M31 L36166-186 Little Collins Street The M.M.BW. map of 1896 shows the outline of the existing building labelled The Cyclorama. The map also notes that it has a basement, as has the present building. This building does not appear on the 1888 Mahlstedt maps. The cyclorama was not used as such from 1900. The building was used as Chinese importers' shops and warehouses from 1900-1908.1 In the Working Drawings Collection at the La Trobe Library there is a sheet of development drawings labelled "proposed alterations to Cyclorama Building Little Bourke Street" and stamped ''William Pitt 30 Jan 02". These show the plan of the Cyclorama building with, what appears to be, Pitt's proposed alterations drawn in black ink. The proposed shops were shown as three each side of a central entrance. The plan also shows the addition of regularly spaced columns, probably for the addition of a roof. These coincides with the column spacing as existing. The drawings consist only of a plan and section with, unfortunately, no elevations. The section shows that the front portion is two stories and that there is a basement. The section through the facade also appears to coincide with the existing facade.__________________________________________________City of Melbourne i-HeritageCentral Activities District Conservation Study - Graeme Butler, 1984: Notable features include shopfront and unusual style/ornament.Other Comments Undergoing reconstruction__________________________________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONSCity of Melbourne Building Permit Application (Burchett index) 1 April 1891 4915 fee ₤6: Lt Collins St, foundations and basement for Cyclorama B- Rochelle Gover & Smith of Brunswick Rd, Brunswick; A- Tayler, Lloyd & Fitts; O- Melbourne Cyclorama Company.22 July 1907, 841 (VPRO): B=F Shillabere for trustees of Graham alterations at 166-186 Lt Collins St, A= Oakden & Ballantyne (1907, 685 Theatre and shops in Russell St designed by William Pitt for Graham estate)__________________________________________________NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA (VIC)`George's Hostess Store (Now Georges Apartments)Location 166- 186 Little Collins Street MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITYFile NumberB0471Level NationalStatement of SignificanceThe building at 166-186 Little Collins Street is nationally significant for incorporating the only substantial remnants of a 'Cyclorama' building in Australia. The building is also notable for the Moghul or Saracenic style of the street elevation.A Cyclorama was a large 360 degree painted scene hung in a large purpose-built structure; only five were built in Australia between 1889 and 1893 by American entrepreneurs Reed and Gross, in association with local businessmen.The Little Collins Street Cyclorama is the only one of which anything substantial remains. 'The 'Siege of Paris' Cyclorama was erected in 1891 to the designs of notable architects Lloyd Tayler and Frederick Fitts, with William Pitt, in association. The bulk of the building was an unadorned partly circular brick drum, while the street elevation, consisting of the entry and four shop fronts, was designed in an exotic Moghul or Saracenic style, appropriate for an entertainment structure, but rarely used in the nineteenth century, and few examples survive in Australia.The building was lowered in height, and shops added c.1902 to the design of William Pitt. The façade was also greatly altered, but maintained the unusual style of the original.The special non-reflective curved glass display windows installed in 1962 as part of the transformation on the building into Geo'ges' Hostess Store (designed by Eggleston, Seacombe, McDonald), are individually notable.Group Retail and WholesaleOther - Retail & Wholesale'__________________________________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:`Lloyd Tayler & Fitts and W. Pitt, joint architects.Tender accepted for erection of basement of new cyclorama, Melbourne. Australasian Builder and Contractor's News 4.4.1891 p 248'`Lloyd Tayler & Fitts; and W. Pitt, joint architects.Acceptance of tender - erection of basement of new cyclorama, Melbourne. Australasian Builder and Contractor's News 4.4.1891 p 248'`Lloyd Taylor & Fitts with William Pitt, joint architects.Tenders wanted for erection of superstructure of new cyclorama building Melbourne. Building Engineering and Mining Journal 30.5.1891 supplement 3'__________________________________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)`The Argus':`The Argus': Tuesday 21 October 1890THEATENING LETTERS.CURIOUS EPISTLES THE EMPEROR WILLIAM RECEIVED AT VERSAILLES. 'In the Paris-public library is kept 'a bundle. of curious letters which were, found at the main bead -quarters of the German staff in Versailles after the siege of Paris in 1871. …`The Argus': Saturday 6 June 1891`The new Cyclorama-building, off Bourke street, has progressed so far that, yesterday the director of the company accepted the tender for the superstructure. The successful tenderers were Messrs. Waring and Rowden, and the price £13,160. The main entrance to the Cyclorama will be from Bourke-street, just above the Palace Hotel, but there will also be entrances to the lower hall as well as to the Cyclorama itself from Little Collins street, nearly opposite Messrs. George and George's new premises. The Bourke-street entrance will be the next work taken in hand, and as the plans are in progress it is hoped that the new Cyclorama' viz., ' The Siege o' Paris,' will be open by Christmas.'.`The Argus': Tuesday 11 August 1891`Rapid progress is being made with the new cyclorama, between Bourke and Little Collins-streets. The shell is approaching completion, and is sufficiently unsightly. The building is better situated than the old cyclorama, with the success of which it may interfere. The Siege of Paris, which is to be depicted, should make an attractive picture. '`The Argus': Saturday 26 December 1891`A new programme is announced at the Victoria-hall ; the Waxworks and Museum in Bourke-street advertises a fresh list of novelties, and the list of amusements concludes with the Cyclorama of Waterloo and the Eureka Stockade in Victoria-parade and the Siege of Paris in the new building in Bourke Street.'`The Argus': Saturday 23 April 1892`The Siege of Paris Cyclorama has attracted more than 3,000 visitors during the holidays. The interesting lectures and good music add greatly to the interest of the war scene..`The Argus': Wednesday 25 May 1892`THE SIEGE OF PARIS.In commemoration of Her Majesty's 73rd birthday a special programme was given yesterday at the cyclorama of the Siege of Paris. The façade of the building was tastefully decorated with flags, a leading feature in the scheme of decoration being a large bust of Her Majesty, at the time of the great Exhibition, surmounted by an oil portrait taken In the present year During the day special musical lectures were given, and in the evening the Siege of Paris was additionally illustrated by a series of lime light views. The usual Cyclorama band was also supplemented by the band of the 2nd Battalion As a special attraction during the week the management have decided upon the distribution of a number of marble busts of the Queen. Forty of these were to be distributed yesterday, each visitor being sup plied with a ticket for the drawing which is to take place on Friday evening next . Ten busts a day will be allotted on the same principle during the week, the drawing to take place on the following Monday Several novel military effects have been added to the Cyclorama itself, and the entertainment is now of a very complete and interesting character.'.`The Argus': Monday 5 June 1893`THE GARDEN OF EDEN?Under the 'itle of ' The Garden of Eden ' a new and striking attraction has been opened at the Rotunda hall attached to the Siege of Paris Cyclorama, Bourke street The visitors ten at a time, enter a specially constructed kiosk, in which by a scientific arrangement of mirrors some most remarkable effects are produced The walls of the room, in fact, are entirely formed of mirrors, the angles being filled in with festoons of flowers and as the roof is composed of green trellis work and artificial flowers, the spectators find themselves apparently in the centre of a vast grove, with avenues of shrubs and flowers extending in every direction This magical garden is tenanted by thousands of people among whom each visitor may with difficulty identify himself repented from every possible point of view So astoundingly natural is the whole thing that the visitor finds it absolutely impossible to distinguish the real persons from the multitudinous reflections, and is inclined to move about with a freedom which is some times abruptly checked by contact with the glass sides A pretty illusion is caused by picking up a Japanese fan and waving it with the result that the whole scene is filled with waving fans Similarly the opening of an umbrella is the signal for the instantaneous growth of a mushroom forest of parasols and the illusion lends itself equally well to hundreds of other ingenious and beautiful effects The Garden of Eden is undoubtedly not only absolutely novel, but the best thing in the way of ingenious illusion that has been produced in the colony It will be open every day from 10am to 10 p m, and the management propose to increase its attractiveness as a popular resort by serving afternoon tea at reduced prices in the afternoon '.`The Argus':Friday 10 August 1900The 'Siege of Paris' cyclorama in Little Collins-street, built 10 or 11 yeas ago, ¡s being demolished. 'hen the 'Waterloo' Cyclorama was prospering, the shareholders in that undertaking decided to mortgage their property, and -with the money raise' on the 'Waterloo'' building they commenced the erection of the 'Siege of Paris' structure, a more pretentious and ambitious enterprise, in the very heart of the city. For a time the 'Paris' cyclorama attracted many visitors, but the days of its prosperity were few, for in 1895 both 'Water' owner-occupier' and 'Paris' came to an end. The executors of the late Mr James Graham have decided to convert the bricks and other material of the 'Paris' building into four shops, to be erected on the vacant land in Russell-street, just above Howes' Tattersall's Club, adjoining the land on which the cyclorama stands. Probably other shops, also constructed out of the cyclorama materials, will be created on the land on which the cyclorama now stands, but with frontages to Little Collins-street.' The picture of the 'Siege' has been removed from the building, and is now lying in a huge case, covered by a shed especially built over it, in Fitzroy-street, near the 'Waterloo' cyclorama. Mr. George Pulling, who erected both cycloramas in Melbourne and those in Sydney and Adelaide, is at present engaged in demolishing the 'Paris' one..1927https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/243928197CITY PROPERTY SOLDSite of First Cyclorama Memories of nearly half a century old will be revived by the announcement that the site of the first Cyclorama in Melbourne has been sold for a price in the vicinity of ₤50,000. Specialty Press Pty. Ltd. has purchased the property, known as Nos. 168 to 186 Little Collins street. ' The land has a frontage of 128ft. to Little Collins street, by a depth of 117ft. On It are eight shops and buildings' occupied by the Specialty Press. The property formed . part of the estate of the late Mr James Graham M.L.C,, and the sale was effected by Messrs Baillleu. Allard Pty. Ltd., Collins' street. Melbourne.1937https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244639933CO. TO ERECT CAR PARKLittle Collins Street FrontageTo erect a modern car parking station at 166-186 Little Collins Street, Victoria Car Park Investment Ltd. is being formed with a nominal capital of £150.000.The Age4 September 2007Michael Lanteri: Building converted in 1995 to apartments by Michael Yates__________________________________________________Mahlstedt fire insurance plan series:Mahlstedt 1910-23 as amended (State Library of Victoria collection) Plan 8 shows 2 level part circular plan form occupied as one space by Specialty Press printers, described as steel framed, with oregon joists, behind 8 two-storey shops with central passage.Mahlstedt 1924-47 as amended (State Library of Victoria collection) Plan 8 shows 2 level part circular plan form occupied as one space by Specialty Press Printers, described as steel framed, with oregon joists, behind 6 two-storey shops with central passage and double shop-Mahlstedt c1947 - shown as above 168-186, 3 levels inside `drum' and 2 levels shops on Lt Collins St. Georges Ltd.__________________________________________________Other sources__________________________________________________NATIONAL TRUST OF AUSTRALIA (VIC)file 471:Letter July 1994 to Michael Yates stating his development had preserved the remaining elements of significance and Mimi Colligan has prepared panels for interpretation. Suggests use of curved form of base in proposed upper levels.File card with image from the 1960s showing original centre entry arch and one shopfront similar to existing (form) .`The Cyclorama of the Siege of Paris' 1894 booklet (State Library of Victoria collection) front page with elevation of Lt Collins St showing Moorish arch ground level in 3 bays either side of open centre with view of 3 level Cyclorama drum, with dome and lantern overDirectors: Henry Byron Moore (chair), Lloyd Tayler, John McMeikan, Isaac newton, Wm L Balllieu.W Forster managerArtist: Felix Phillipoteaux, French (Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1815–1884) s enhanced by Thaddeus Welch of New York (1844-1919); architect Lloyd Tayler & Fitts and Mr William Pitt; Gover & Smith and Waring & Rowden as builders..William Pitt Jan 1902 plans for renovation of building (State Library of Victoria MU drawing collection: WD. THE.8)MMBW property service plan 4236 extract:1901 Owner: Hon James Graham, Punt Rd, S Yarra, Agent: Anketell Henderson…(architect): plan shows drum extending to Lt Collins St with two shops either side 186, 180-182 and 166, 1681907-1909 plan, with 1931 additionsOwner: Execrs of the late James Graham, Melb Agents: Oakden & Ballantyne, 416 Collins St.1928, 1935, 1945 plans: The Specialty Press Pty ltd M McKay secretary. shows flat across Lt Collins St façade.1947, 1948 plans: The Specialty Press as owner-occupier; Agent: GN Hollinshead…1956, 1962 plan: The Specialty Press as owner-occupierTitle extract V.8248 F.324: Specialty Press Ltd. of 174 Lt Collins St owner part CA10 and 12/11 1960.`Herald Sun' clipping 12/1/1994 Georges occupied the building since 1967, now to sell.__________________________________________________The Australian Media History Database:The Specialty Press (1905-1979) Melbourne printer and publisher.`…Specialty Press outlining its links with other Australian and foreign publishers, its partnerships, agreements, and commercial activities including advertising service agents and advertisers, the promotion of Australia’s industries outside Australia and the role it played by supplying J.C. Williamson Ltd. with theatre magazine programmes and theatre slides. 'Colligan in `Melbourne's First Suburb' : 179- American entrepreneurs Isaac Newton Reed and Howard H Gross visited Australia to set up cycloramas in capital cities commissioning Lloyd Tayler open 18 May 1889 under Melbourne Cyclorama Company (company also developed this site)-1896 closed, coinciding with first staging of cinematograph in the Melbourne Opera House - cyclorama in Victoria Parade reopened 1902 - closed 1904 and demolition 1927.__________________________________________________Victorian Heritage Database: NareenNareen was purchased'by James Graham (1819-1898), 'one of Victoria's most prominent men of commerce … a good pro'ider rather than a high liver' (Strahan, 282-3; de Serville, 241-2, et altered). James Graham was a merchant, agent and politician who was extremely significant in the fledgling colony of Victoria (Graham, var.). He had extensive pastoral interests in various parts of Victoria. He had extensive commercial interests including railways, insurance, and the export of wool. As a philanthropist, he was involved with the Old Colonists Association and the Australia Felix Immigration Society. He was a founding member of the Melbourne Club. A member of the initial Legislative Council, he was also a member of the new Council under the 1856 Constitution from 1866-86…By 1904, Nareen had passed to Frederic Lionel Graham who was born in 1864, the son of James Graham and Mary, nee Alleyne, (PIV, Reg. No' 22297). He was described as 'Landowner and Grazier, Nareen, via Coleraine, . the proprietor of the Nareen Estate, which he purchased in 1900 from the executors in the estate of the late Hon. Jas. Graham…__________________________________________________AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHYFrank Strahan, 'Graham, James (1819 - 1898)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 282-283.`GRAHAM, JAMES (1819-1898), merchant, agent and politician, was born on 5 February 1819 at Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, son of James Moore Graham, Irish-born surgeon in the Scottish Fife Militia, and his first wife Anna Maria, née Ievers. He was educated at Ennis College and, after the family moved to Fife in 1832, at Madras Academy, Cupar. There in 1836 he was employed by Pagan & Christie, bankers and solicitors, and on 10 May 1838 was appointed clerk in charge of the National Security Savings Bank of Fife, of which Christie was actuary. Graham immediately deposited 10s. in the bank but resigned in August, sailed in the Alfred in September and arrived in Sydney on 7 January 1839. To his parents he wrote, 'I left my happy home, a home that was endeared to me by the warmest ties of affection, and which contained all that was near and dear to me on this earth'. However, he had a testimonial from Pagan & Christie with 'most cordial wishes for his prosperity and success'.With three companions and a young servant Graham started overland in April for Melbourne to establish an agency for the Sydney merchant, (Sir) Stuart Donaldson. They travelled through drought-burnt country, crossed the Murray River, saw a promised land which 'gladdened both man and beast' and reached Melbourne on 10 May. Graham's instructions from Donaldson were 'to get settlers to give us wool, and give them in exchange either money at a reasonable rate of advance or sugar, tea, tobacco etc. at the market price'. Young and talented, he soon established a successful business which included investments in land and buildings for Donaldson's clients. In the 1840s he was a director of the Port Philip Steam Navigation Co., the Melbourne Fire and Marine Insurance Co. and the Melbourne Auction Co., treasurer of the Commercial Exchange, member of the management committee of the Port Phillip Theological Education Society, secretary of the Australia Felix Immigration Society, a trustee of the Government Savings Bank and a commissioner for insolvent estates. By the mid-1840s, though still conducting Donaldson's Victorian affairs, Graham was in business on his own account. He admitted Frederick Lamb as a partner in 1853. Graham was nominated that year to the Legislative Council but resigned in 1854 to visit Britain.In Cupar the freedom of the burgh was conferred on him after he gave £100 for distribution to the poor to enable them 'to lay in a few necessaries or comforts for the coming winter'. Alarmed by reports of increasing depression in Melbourne he hurried back and in January 1857 was busy at 91 Little Collins Street East penning admonitions to his debtors. He returned to Cupar in 1858 to collect his family and reached Melbourne in October 1860. His association with Lamb had been dissolved in 1857 and next year he formed Graham Bros & Co. His brothers, Edward and Charlie, were admitted as partners. That partnership was dissolved about 1870 but Graham retained the firm's title. His son, Francis, became a partner on 1 January 1876 and on 31 December 1897 another son, Harry, was admitted.Goods ranging from silk to ore crushers, from brandy to corrosive sublimate were sold by Graham Bros & Co. and bales of Victorian wool were shipped to England. Much of the business was on commission: the firm managed the affairs of such retired investors as the existing-lieutenant-governor Charles La Trobe, selling his colonial land in Jolimont and investing the proceeds. Among his other clients were the overlander, Joseph Hawdon, and the squatter and financier, William Campbell. In addition Graham acted as executor of many deceased Victorian estates. Despite the increasing commitments of his firm Graham was also a director of the Melbourne and Mount Alexander Railway Co. and the St Kilda and Brighton Railway Co., chairman of the Melbourne Exchange Co., a director of the English, Scottish and Australian Bank, the London Guarantee and Accident Co., the Australasian Insurance Co. and chairman of the North British Mercantile Insurance Co., the South British Marine Insurance Co. and the Standard Insurance Co. of Scotland. His interests in station properties included Yering, View Hill, Tragowell, Dunock Forest and Koolomurt in Victoria. He also became consul for Sardinia in 1859 and later for United Italy. He was an early member of the Melbourne Club and its president in 1865, a founding member of the Old Colonists' Association, a Freemason and an Anglican. In 1866-86 he represented Central Province in the Legislative Council but was not prominent in politics and usually voted as a Conservative. He retired from politics 'to concentrate on business and personal affairs'. Though still active in the firm particularly in managing the affairs of friends and absentee colonists, Graham's letters in his last years were written in a shaky hand.On 24 September 1845 Graham had married Mary Alleyne, née Cobham; of their eighteen children, eight died young. He died at South Yarra on 31 July 1898, leaving an estate worth more than £189,000. Strong in talent and business associations, industrious and honest, close in his attention to detail, he was one of Victoria's most prominent men of commerce. A good provider rather than a high liver, his life and the outstanding collection of records he left for historians form a fascinating reflection of colonial Victoria's commercial history.A portrait of Graham is held by a great-grandson, F. J. O. Graham of Sydney, and another is in the Melbourne Club.Select BibliographyFife Herald, 16, 23 Nov 1854; Graham Bros & Co. records (University of Melbourne Archives); minutes of directors' meetings (National Security Savings Bank, Cupar, Fife). '__________________________________________________Probate, VPRO, 1898 GrahamSeries number: VPRS 28Consignment number: P0002Unit number: 499cites property 181-207 Bourke St (former frontage of cyclorama); also Little Collins St with 129' frontage 117' depth with `large brick building known as the Bourke Street cyclorama, comprising cyclorama and Rotunda, and 3 small shops of gross annual rental 80 pounds- cyclorama and rotunda unlet for a `considerable time' and in their present from are `practically worthless' (WL Baillieu valuation ₤2000); also internal land off Lt Collins St…__________________________________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEW38. Melbourne Cyclorama Company / 166-186 Little Collins Street / 105965Identified in a previous heritage review (Central Activities District Conservation Study, 1985, Central City Heritage Review, 1993)Date of construction: 1908 (façade) Explanation for exclusion: Substantially altered. Low integrity..DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL____________________________________________NIGEL LEWIS DECEMBER 1976, HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF MELBOURNE BOURKE STREET, EAST AREA 8 OF THE SURVEY COMMISSIONED BY THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS PRESERVATION COUNCIL : 841900 168 Yick Kee & Co.Tai Goon Importer1905 166-168 Yick Shing Tea ImporterTai Goon Chinese Silk Importer182 Switzer, Edward1906 As 19051907 see above1908166-168 Vacant174 The Needham Carton Pierre Co.1909166 Lally, W.F. Motor Car Electrician•• 168 Vacant170 Hateley, James Engraver1910166 Myers, Chas. Photo Enlarger168 Pritchard, Geo. Tailor170 Hatchley, James Engraver1920166 Sorokuwitch, Jacob Draper & Clothier168 O'Brien & Pritchard Tailors170 Flavel, Albert Die Setter1930166 Westminister Art Galleries168 Bernacci, R.C. Art Dealer170 Leonardo Art ShopFrom National Trust of Australia (Vic) file 471:The Needham Carton Pierre Co. 1st entry at 174 in 19081900-1907 interior of drum mainly occupied by Yick Kee & Co.Tai Goon , importer1907166-168 Yick Shing tea importers182 vacant186 Goon Lee importers.1908see above 166-8, 182, and 186 vacant.1909:170 Flateley, James engravers etc.172 Boyd taylor and mercer174 as above178 Hinge, Miss ER booksellers180 Griffiths & Son art printer & publisher182 The Orient Chemical Co - Southwell, CA manager.1910:as above and172 Campbell Walker & Co, indents., merchants182 The Boston Brass Co Pty Ltd186 Wilson Bros, tailor..City of Melbourne rate books [RB]__________________________________________________From NIGEL LEWIS DECEMBER 1976, HISTORIC AND ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF MELBOURNE BOURKE STREET, EAST AREA 8 OF THE SURVEY COMMISSIONED BY THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS PRESERVATION COUNCIL: M31, L361902 Sow Loong Brick shop 35Graham Bros. Edward Switzer do. 35Graham Bros. Land 63 x 150 190Graham Bros. Yick Kee Brick shopGraham Bros. Yard at rear with Stone Store & Brick Store 401903 As 19021904 do.1905 do.1906 No change Executor of Graham1907 do. Executor of Graham1908 The Needham P/L Executors Graham 8 brick shops & large factory 125 x 120 1000do. do. Yard at rear with stone store and brick store 19 x 78 160__________________________________________________City of Melbourne Valuer's Field Books:FB1907, (entry written over with 8 brick shops etc. factory 127xx130' ₤1000.)746 Goon Lee exec Graham 186 Lt Collins St brick shop 57'x30' ₤35747 exec Graham 182 Lt Collins St brick shop ₤15748 exec Graham off Lt Collins St land ₤190749, Yick Shing (crossed out) exec Graham brick shop ₤55750, exec Graham 182 Lt Collins St land yard at rear with stone store, ₤15FB1908, 733 exec Graham 186-166 Lt Collins St 8 brick shops and large factory 3 floors, 127x120' ₤1000
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