Butcher's shop and residence, later Princess Bridge Hotel (1861-) or Young & Jacksons Hotel, 1-3, 5-7 Swanston Street & 210-220 Flinders Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Butcher's shop and residence, later Princess Bridge Hotel (1861-) or Young & Jacksons Hotel, 1-3, 5-7 Swanston Street & 210-220 Flinders Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 109257
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2023:__________________________________________________DATE: 1854-, 1860-1, 1874-5, 1921;ASSOCIATIONS: Keogh, DP 1874-5;DESIGNER: Flannagan, John (1875), Richard B Whittaker 1921;BUILDER: Wright, Henry 1874-5Period: Early Victorian/ Edwardian.Victorian Heritage Register HO744What is significant?Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is an amalgamation of five separate buildings of two and three storeys. The original 1853 bluestone building was designed as a three-storey residence, with a butcher's shop on the ground floor. It opened as a hotel in July 1861 with John T Toohey as licensee. It was later extended in both directions, incorporating a shop to the north in Swanston Street and two early bluestone stores to the west on Flinders Street. All the buildings have been rendered and painted to match each other but the original stone corner building can be readily identified.In 1875 Henry Figsby Young and Thomas Jackson took over the licence, extended the hotel and gave it the name by which it is now popularly known. The architect John Flannigan and the builder Henry Wright undertook the renovations, including the removal of the original timber shopfronts and the addition of the brick parapets and pediments. In 1908 Henry Young purchased the painting Chloe and displayed it in the saloon bar. Chloe is a painting of a nude female by the Frenchman Jules Lefebvre. This painting had been the subject of public outcry when it had been shipped to Melbourne for the 1880-81 International Exhibition at the Royal Exhibition Buildings. Its display at the hotel ensured great publicity for Young. Young sold his leasehold in 1914 to the brewer Stephen Morell. During Morell's tenancy the hotel absorbed another of the former stores extending west along Flinders Street. In 1921 the freeholder united all the previous perimeter occupancies to form one large hotel facade. The architect of this work was the hotel specialist Richard B Whittaker. The red glaze tile dado and ornamental frieze was added to combat the grime at ground level. The streetscape of the hotel is dominated by large advertising signs fixed to the exterior, a feature of the hotel since the 1920s.How is it significant?Young and Jackson?s Princes Bridge Hotel is of historical significance to the State of Victoria.Why is it significant?Young and Jackson?s Princes Bridge Hotel is historically significant as one of Melbourne's oldest, most important and successful nineteenth century hotels. Its popularity was achieved partly because of its occupation of the key corner site facing Princes Bridge and Flinders Street Railway Station. Since the 1920s commercial signs have also played an important role in establishing Young and Jackson's landmark quality. The hotel is historically significant for the public display of the painting Chloe since 1908. Chloe not only helped to promote the hotel but also came to symbolise popular resistance to conservative Victorian values. Chloe is intimately connected to the significance of Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel and has changed hands with changes of ownership of the hotel. Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is additionally historically significant as one of the first hotels to be chosen in 1888 by the Foster Brothers to sell their revolutionary new lager beer, which later came to dominate the market for bottled beer. Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is historically significant for its associations with Stephen J Morrell, licensee from 1914. Morrell helped establish the Abbotsford Brewery and became Mayor of Melbourne in 1926.Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is socially significant as one of the most famous pubs in Australia. It is one of the international symbols of Melbourne and the hotel retains its status as a pub destination for tourists and for ex-servicemen who were based in Melbourne during the Second World War. The hotel is a prominent Melbourne landmark on the Flinders Street and Swanston Street intersection and retains a close relationship with Flinders Street Railway Station located opposite..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites source 78, page 59;_________________________________________MURPHY ARCHITECTS, JOHN AND PHYLLIS 1976. HISTORIC BUILDINGS STUDY OF PART OF THE C.B.D. MELBOURNE : { AREA 1} WITH MURPHY, JOCK, FOR HISTORIC BUILDINGS PRESERVATION COUNCIL. (source 78)7.7210-220 Flinders Street - Young and Jackson's Hotel.• Construction Date : 1854Melbourne's most famous hotel was first a butchery standing on the north-west corner of Flinders andSwanston Streets, a block of land purchased by John Batman at the first land sales for 100 pounds. 1The butcher's shop was erected in 1854 and was extended in 1860 and entered in the Rate Book as "To Let Swanston Street Corner Dw. & 2 floors over" 2. John P. Toohey was the licensee of the premises, known as the Princes Bridge Hotel in July 1861. The licence eventually passed into thehands of two young diggers who had found a fortune in New Zealand. Their names were Young and Jackson.Henry Figsley Young was said to have had a great flair for publicity and the most successful venture'to popularize their hotel was the purchase of the much publicized nude painting, "Chloe,", in 1908for f800. This was the picture that had been subject to violent attacks of indignation for itsindecency in 1883. 3•The building has now extended in both directions having incorporated a shop to the north in Swans ton Street and two early stone stores to the west in Flinders Street. They have been rendered and painted to match, but the original stone corner building can be readily identified. It is interesting to note that the name 'Young and Jackson's' has remained as a colourful reminder of the wildyears which followed the discovery of gold in Victoria .•1. Freeland, J.M., The Australian Pub, M.D.P., Melbourne (1966).2. M.C.C. Rate Books (1860), Latrobe Ward No. 903.3. Freeland, J.M., The Australian Pub, P 126._________________________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Records17376 Flannagan, John; VIC Hotels 1874 7 6,John Flannagan Tenders invited for additions & improvements to Prince's Bridge Hotel, opposite Fish Market, for D.P. Keogh Esq.Argus 6.7.1874 p 375819 Keogh, - Melbourne VIC Hotels; alterations Wright, Henry 1874 07 17 5976, MCC registration no 5976 [Burchett Index]. Fee 1.10.0alterations to hotel, Flinders near cnr Flinders & Swanston________VICTORIA HERITAGE REGISTERBackgroundLand purchased by John Batman in first land sale 1837, Block 5, Allotment 8. By 1840 two buildings on site, "Mrs Cooks' Residence". Extant building constructed as butcher's shop 1854. Subsequently extended & altered for use as an hotel 1860-61. Modified 1875 when taken over by Henry Young & Thomas Jackson.1877 - 4 buildings: Princess Bridge Hotel, Druggist, & 2 Boot factories.1888 & 1905 - same buildings; Hotel & various shops.Further modifications 1922 (see below)....Arch/Design FLANNAGAN, J; Builder HENRY WRIGHT;...Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is an amalgamation of five separate buildings of two and three storeys. The original 1853 bluestone building was designed as a three-storey residence, with a butcher's shop on the ground floor. It opened as a hotel in July 1861 with John T Toohey as licensee. It was later extended in both directions, incorporating a shop to the north in Swanston Street and two early bluestone stores to the west on Flinders Street. All the buildings have been rendered and painted to match each other but the original stone corner building can be readily identified. In 1875 Henry Figsby Young and Thomas Jackson took over the licence, extended the hotel and gave it the name by which it is now popularly known. The architect John Flannigan and the builder Henry Wright undertook the renovations, including the removal of the original timber shopfronts and the addition of the brick parapets and pediments.In 1908 Henry Young purchased the painting Chloe and displayed it in the saloon bar. Chloe is a painting of a nude female by the Frenchman Jules Lefebvre. This painting had been the subject of public outcry when it had been shipped to Melbourne for the 1880-81 International Exhibition at the Royal Exhibition Buildings. Its display at the hotel ensured great publicity for Young.Young sold his leasehold in 1914 to the brewer Stephen Morell. During Morell's tenancy the hotel absorbed another of the former stores extending west along Flinders Street. In 1921 the freeholder united all the previous perimeter occupancies to form one large hotel facade. The architect of this work was the hotel specialist Richard B Whittaker. The red glaze tile dado and ornamental frieze was added to combat the grime at ground level. The streetscape of the hotel is dominated by large advertising signs fixed to the exterior, a feature of the hotel since the 1920s. HENRY WRIGHT;_________________________________________
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