Stork Hotel, 500-504 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Stork Hotel, 500-504 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 103293
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Period: Early VictorianConstruction date: 1856-7, Renovated 1924-5Notable features: Corner hotel form (old) recognisable - no pure period expression however more 19th century than 1925.ASSOCIATIONS: Southwood, William Stocker; A. Prentice Esq..ASSOCIATED RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites MMBW Detail Plan 1023 of 1895- similar outline - noted as long term corner hotel and likely renovation of much earlier building.City of Melbourne online mapsSite of former single storey warehouse built in 1920 and the Stork Hotel built in 1855. To be developed (2012)..VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORYD7822-20261866 map - building shown on site. (Also see 51-55 Therry St - remnant walling may relate to this allotment). 1905 - two-storey Stork Hotel, Nos.504-506 with kitchen and yard at rear. No.500 part of one-storey shop, C Fields, Ironmonger. Heritage Inventory Comments: Extant building two storeysand cellar, built 1925.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEXSouthwoodRecords75717 Ross, Murray Melbourne VIC Warehouses Southwood, Taylor & Co - 102 Latrobe St 1853 09 17 162674970 Glass, James Melbourne VIC Warehouses Southwood Taylor & Co. Melbourne 1853 10 27 194377594 Barton & Southwood - 123 Swanston St Melbourne VIC Warehouses Southwood & Taylor - Melbourne 1853 10 28 196475995 Gibbon, King & Co Melbourne VIC Warehouses Southwood, Taylor & Co - Melbourne 1854 01 9 4073529 Mortimer, W H Melbourne VIC Houses Southwood, Taylor & Co - Melbourne 1854 02 25 38673530 Mouritz, G A Melbourne VIC Houses Southwood, Taylor & Co - Melbourne 1854 02 25 38774986 Read, - Melbourne VIC Warehouses Southwood Taylor & Co - Collingwood 14/8/54 Johnson & Hope - 106 Latrobe St east 17/9/54 1854 08 14 145275038 Southwood, William S Melbourne VIC Houses Southwood, William S 1856 10 14 725 MCC registration no 725 [Burchett Index]. Fee 4.0.0three-storey house Elizabeth & Therry.CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONSMelbourne Building Application IndexElizabeth St - Flinders Sthttps://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60672/images/44777_349573-005321924 Nov 6925 ₤4500 alts and additions to Stork Hotel.Stork Hotel web site 2021http://www.storkhotel.com/.Dr Vincent Clark & Associates web site 2021https://www.vincentclark.com.au/projects/the-stork-hotel-elizabeth-therry-streets-melbourne/`Dr Vincent Clark and Associates conducted excavations at three adjoining properties on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Therry Street in the Melbourne CBD. The buildings, one of which was the iconic Stork Hotel, were earmarked for demolition prior to the construction of a multi-storey residential development. The Stork was established at the time of the gold rushes in the 1850s and was one of Melbourne’s longest continually operational hotels. The other two sites had been used for such businesses as a saddler, magneto mechanic, ironmonger, and most recently, as a used car sales yard.The excavations uncovered thick bluestone foundation walls and industrial fixtures. Thousands of artefacts were recovered from the site, including hundreds of glass pieces from wine, beer and gin bottles and fragments of crockery that were associated with the hotel. A champagne bottle with a paper label still attached was a particularly special find. But it was not all beer and skittles – complete soft drink bottles, ranging from torpedo bottles to Boon Spa bottles that dated to the 1950s and 1960s, were also recovered.Many of the artefacts reflected the industrial use of the sites next to and behind the Stork Hotel, including leather offcuts, scrap metal, large files and other tools and coins. Some of these were sealed beneath a layer of ash and charred material that was deposited when the timber milling yard in the adjoining property caught fire in 1859..NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Friday 1 May 1857 - Page 5City of Melbourne LicensingSouthwood, Wm. Stocker, Stork Hotel, Elizabeth street. A new house. Postponed until Tuesday..The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954)Wednesday 6 May 1857 - Page 51857 Stork Hotel listed as Flemington RoadWilliam Stocker Southwood, Stork Hotel, Flemington road. Mr H. Stephens supported the application, which was granted..Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918)Tuesday 4 May 1858 - Page 2https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/87980195On Friday evening, about two hundred and fifty workmen, with their wives and families, had a re union at the Stork Hotel Assembly Rooms, in .Elizabeth-street, to celebrate the half-holiday. The party enjoyed themselves with supper and a ball and separated at a reasonable hour.The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Saturday 3 July 1858 - Page 6SOUTHWOOD AND TAYLOR V. MORTIMER.Southwood and William Gibson Taylor it partnership as builders to 1854 when dissolved. Taylor now in Scotland but bills deposited in joint name -left owing Southwood..Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 - 1929)Saturday 11 August 1860 - Page 2INSOLVENTWilliam Stocker Southwood, of Melbourne, licensed victualler. Causes—Incurring debts on mortgage of the Stork Hotel, to Mr Charles Palmer, inability to pay the interest, and depreciation in the value of the hotel. Debts L5690; assets, L3515; deficiency, L2151.The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Wednesday 5 September 1860 - Page 5John Holland, Stork Hotel, Elizabeth-street from William Southwood..The Colonial Mining Journal, Railway and Share Gazette and Illustrated Record (Melbourne, Vic. : 1859 - 1861)Saturday 6 April 1861 - Page 118PATENTS APPLIED FOR IN MARCHWilliam Stocker Southwood, for Improvements in the manufacture of Boots and Shoes.The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Saturday 1 November 1924 - Page 7JOY and MCINTYRE,Consulting Engineers and Architects,243 Collins Street, Melbourne.Invite TENDERS for RECONSTRUCTION of STORK HOTEL, Elisabeth street, Melbourne, for A. Prentice, Esq.Tenders Close Monday, 10th November, 1924, 12 noon. Deposit, 1 per cent..Sydney Morning Herald November 18, 2013https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/taking-the-wrecking-ball-to-a-citys-heritage-20131117-2xp0h.htmlTaking the wrecking ball to a city's heritage The Stork Hotel's loss points to a foreboding future.By Jefferson Kinsman`Last week, The Stork Hotel, which was erected in 1855 on the corner of Elizabeth and Therry Streets, was rudely acquainted with a wrecking ball not dissimilar to the one ridden by Miley Cyrus across the screen in her latest music video. The demolition of ''The Stork'' should be understood for what it is: the complete and utter failure of Melbourne's architectural and cultural heritage system...Anyone who works within that system, and who watched as The Stork was smashed into a thousand pebbly bricks, should admit that they are but peasants in a feudal system where the developers are the lords, and where the Crown is … well, the crown. Had the Lonely Planet existed at the time, a review penned in the 1850s might have read: ''The Stork Hotel is the ideal place of temporary residence for those heading to and from the goldfields. It offers stabling for your horses, safe storage for your gold, the amusement of cribbage and billiards, and the occasional sale of liquor at prohibited hours. It comes highly recommended at £1.10 a week - so long as you can tolerate the occasional act of gross outrage.''In recent years, the hotel famously staged productions of Albert Camus' The Outsider and The Plague. In 1874, it was a meeting site for those attempting to secure the eight-hours-work system for labourers in the iron trade. In 1859, at the tender age of three, it narrowly escaped a massive fire that broke out in a nearby timber yard. The same firemen who saved it were, on occasions when they had spent the night fighting a fire, given discounts on the cold meat and beers they consumed at the hotel.In 2007, The Age was informed by the hotel's manager that The Stork had forever lost its chance of achieving heritage status in 1925 when it was given an Art Deco facelift. Ironically, antique dealers across the city will tell you that Victorian-era items are presently hard to move, whereas the market for Art Deco has hotted up.….Jefferson Kinsman is a lecturer and researcher at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education.
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