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Kemelfield and Yinder hat factory also Bee Keepers Supply Co., 126-130 Franklin Street, Melbourne

Butler, Graeme1985

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Creator:

Butler, Graeme (Name details)

Date of work:

1985

Reference number:

BIF-CITY 104093

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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

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Graphic materialsTextual material

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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)

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UnrestrictedOpen access.

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UnrestrictedPlease contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:Period: VictorianConstruction date: 1895?.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM.RBA ARCHITECTS 2013, CITY NORTH HERITAGE REVIEWQueen Victoria Market Precinct (HO7)Schedule3 storey, masonry warehouse with basalt plinth and stuccoed façade, which appears to have been recently renewed without tooled lines. The façade consists of three separate bays, eachwith three windows. There are cornices at each level, with the most prominent (with brackets) being to the first floor..VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY H7822-20061905 - 3 storey building.Kemelfield & YinderSee alsoCity of Port Phillip Heritage ReviewMarks house, HistoryMaking suburbsThe house was built in 1917-18 for Henry Marks, a merchant, who occupied what was described as an 8 room house until c1925 { RB 1917-18, 5416; RB 1926-7, 6791}. Typically there were 5-6 people living in thehouse in that period. Marks was followed by Samuel Kemelfield, a draper, into the 1930s. The house owner was listed as Doris Kemelfield (Samuel's wife?). Doris may have been the daughter of Solomon Nathan.Esther Kemelfield was also an occupier of one of the flats created at the house around 1931 as well as the listed owner of the house. Simeon Kemelfield, draper, replaced Samuel c1933-4. Simeon died in 1966 aged69, the son of Barnett & Esta or Esther (nee Nathan) { Macbeth}. Esther had died in 1933 aged 63. The name Marks was well established in Melbourne commercial circles with the prosperous Marks brothersbusiness at Williamstown and Henry Marks who was in the furniture warehouse trade in Melbourne since the 1850s when he started off with Solomon & Co { Sutherland: 712}. Marks claimed in the 1880s to have one of the largest warehouses of that type in the Colony and stated that he had invented time-payment method of purchase. This Henry Marks was a second-hand clothes dealer in King St, Melbourne during the Edwardian era, and lived in Dickens St, St Kilda, prior to building this house { D1910: 1246}. In the mid 1930s, David Marks, a manager lived in one of the flats.The firm Kemelfield & Yinder were hat makers in Franklin St, Melbourne during the Edwardian-era { D1910:1142}..DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALLSands & McDougall Directory of Victoria1925, 1920128-130 Kemelfield & Yinder Pty Ltd. hat • cap mnfrs1910126-128 Slobom & Co, shirt mnfrs130 Kemelfield & Yinder. hat and cap mnfrs132-140 Gordon & Gotch Prop Ltd, blk str, imprtrs1893128 Beekeepers' Supply Co- Chambers, L. T., mgr130 Sands & McDougall Ltd, store

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City of Melbourne

Topics:

Central Activities District Conservation Study 1985Conservation studiesMid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)1890-1899

Places:

Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1211090