George Evans shop and residence row, 309-325 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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George Evans shop and residence row, 309-325 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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DATE: 1850-1;ASSOCIATIONS: Evans, George;DESIGNER: Evans, George?;BUILDER: Evans, GeorgePeriod: Early Victorian.GRAEME BUTLER & ASSOCIATES 2011, CENTRAL CITY (HODDLE GRID) HERITAGE REVIEWStatement of Significance.What is significant?This two-storey shop and dwelling row is on land first purchased by Port Phillip speculators TB Payne, Hugh Glass & JS Brodie, along with their purchase of many other nearby allotments. This corner allotment to Little Lonsdale Street (CA 9/28) sold for a large ₤270.In 1847-8 Hugh Glass sold this site to pioneer Port Phillip District pastoralist George Evans for ₤111/12/6, along with other lots. Evans mortgaged the property for ₤100 in 1848 and repaid the mortgage in 1852 when he began a 7 year lease to Samuel Furneaux Mann senior of 197 Swanston (part of today's row). In the same year Evans sold the property to William Hawkins for a substantial ₤5500, indicating that this building row was in place.The row was described in rate records of 1851 as seven 3 and 4-room brick houses, two as shop and house, and another with a 4 stall stable. Occupiers then included Jeremiah Bone, Henry Montgomery, John Ride, John F**ford with shop, oven and bakehouse; Jane Hopper (house of 4 rooms and kitchen); John O’Sullivan and Charles Collyer. Owner of the row, William Hawkins, occupied a store adjoining to the south. Hawkins' property went to his widow, Alice Hawkins after his death in 1865.Launceston builder, George Evans (the first owner of this row) and his party founded the settlement that became Melbourne on 29 August 1835, after travelling on JP Fawkner's ship `Enterprise' from Launceston to Port Phillip. The `Enterprise' party was led by Captain John Lancey with Evans and his servant Evan Evans, carpenters William Jackson and Robert Hay Marr, ploughman Charles Wise and blacksmith James Gilbert and his wife Mary. By 1836 Evans had occupied the grazing property now known as Emu Bottom near Sunbury and in 1851 William Mortimer sold the Royal Oak Hotel, at the Queens and Latrobe Streets corner, to Evans for a handsome ₤2400. This sum presumably came from part of the sale proceeds of the Swanston Street house and shop row. At his death in 1876, Evans was described as one of the `earliest pioneers of Melbourne'.This shop and dwelling row is designed in a rare Regency style within the Capital City Zone. With cemented façade and face brick rear walls, Regency detailing on the row includes the shell motif in the tympanum of upper-level windows (some gone), inverse scrolls either side of the parapet orb, brackets at the top of the pilaster blocks at first floor level, inverse consoles terminating pilasters above the upper-level impost line, and boldly formed scrolling to the upper-level window architraves. The row is adjacent to the significant John Knox's Church, Charles Webb's design of 1863 (replacing an earlier church) and it backs onto the important Schneider & Abrahams factory warehouse complex.All shopfronts have been replaced and a new shopfront introduced to the Little Lonsdale Street elevation. Some shell motifs have been removed from the upper-level windows. However, sufficient original fabric remains to allow restoration of this row.How is it significant?Evans shop and residence row is significant historically and aesthetically to the Melbourne Capital City ZoneWhy is it significant?The Evans shop and residence row is historically significant as perhaps the earliest of its type in the Capital City Zone. The historical link with Port Phillip pioneer George Evans is also notable as one of his first major development projects in his transition from pastoralist to City developer. Evans was among the first settlers to set foot in what was to be Melbourne town in the 1830s.Aesthetically the row possesses rare Regency style detailing, as a precursor to the more mainstream Italian Renaissance revival of later cemented commercial façades in the Capital City Zone..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites HBPC CBD Area Study (83), page 16 once fine row of 2 storey shop 16x75' lots, now defaced- relates to adjoining church and Lt Lonsdale Street streetscapes._______________________________________MCC i-Heritage:cites Central Activities District Conservation Study - Graeme Butler, 1984 Building Identification Form (BIF): No. 309 New shopfront (sympathetic - reinstate original design), tympanum detail gone upper windows (inappropriate - reinstate original design), air units and awning added (both inappropriate - remove or reinstate sympathetic alternative), verandah gone and windows painted over (both inappropriate - reinstate original design or sympathetic alternative), upper level signs new (inappropriate - remove or reinstate sympathetic alternative)Other Comments CBD notes streetscape proximity to church; earlier date likely - see Bibb's map (c1856)_______________________________________CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS13/6/1850, 194 B/O= Geo Evans, 2 storey house, fee ₤2/10/- (also 1853, 406: 7 houses and store in Swanston St north for William Abercrombie by Joseph Thompson fee ₤11 )_______________________________________VTO- RGOSN 241281847-8 Hugh Glass sells site to George Evans 63'x70' for ₤154/14/, 1848 47x70' to Evans for ₤111/12/6 (site)1848 GE mortgage ₤100 repaid 18521852 7 year lease GE to Samuel Furneaux Mann senior (197 Swanston)1852 GE sells to William Hawkins (via Thomas T A'Beckett ) for ₤ 55001864 WH wills to Sam Thorn (exec) who transfers to Alice Hawkins (widow) in 1867 etc._______________________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEW305-307 Swanston StreetThe National Trust notes that a row of eight shops with lodging houses was built at 305-325 Swanston Street for W Hawkins c1850. The various occupants in 1853 included surgeon Dr Menzies, at numbers 313-315, and joiner S Langfield, at number 311. In 1857, 305-307 Swanston Street was occupied by Lloyds dancing rooms and was converted in the early 1860s into a Freemasons' Hall (NT 2007). The street numbering has changed to this part of Swanston Street and the current numbering is 309-323...309-325 Swanston Street (HO1081)A row of seven two storey rendered brick shops of two storeys that are noted as early construction pre-1860. These places are included within a broader precinct for Swanston Street North Precinct assessed as part of the Hoddle Grid Heritage Review._______________________________________BIBBS MAPThomas Bibbs, c1856-7, Melbourne Roll Plan 12 (PROV, VPRS 8168/P3 Historic Plan Collection, Unit 46, MELBRL 12)shows row as existing subdivision, note that rate book description gives difefring lot sizes 1865 and earlier but this is not as in Bibbs map._______________________________________DeGruchy & Leigh Isometric 1866- shows row_______________________________________AC Cooke Melbourne panorama 1871:shown_______________________________________AC Cook Melbourne Panorama 1880- shown_______________________________________MAHLSTEDT FIRE INSURANCE PLAN SERIESMahlstedt c1910-1923, Plan 5A: 309-325 shows 7 two-storey buildings as small frontages compared to adjoining , with occupiers includes State Grill rooms at 325-3, etc_______________________________________VPRO ProbateEvans, 1876:Series number: VPRS 28Consignment number: P0002Unit number: 54VPRO Hawkins:Gentleman of St Kilda, d 16 Nov 1865, probate granted 16 Nov 1865Series number: VPRS 7591Consignment number: P0001Unit number: 23_______________________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)`The Argus':Thursday 9 August 1849A SPLENDID House and Shop to let in Swanston-street, near the John Knox Church.Apply to GEORGE EVANS, Wheelwright, Great Bourke-street..DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL.1904 (307 Bride, Joseph, hairdresser and tobacconist)309 Bailey, Mrs J. F., carpet planner & upblstr311 Vacant313-315 Williams, Alfred, dyer & cleaner317 Bauer, F. O., hairdresser St. tobacconist319 Ehricht, Frederick821 Gllgohann, Franz, tailor323-325 Vacant.1893309 Bailey , J. F., carpet planner H upholsterer311 Gardiner, James, Bible and tract repository315 Williams , Alfred , dyeing, cleaning and tailoring317 Kelly , George, bootmaker319 Richard , Herbert, wine saloon321 Neyroz, Julian, fruiterer and confectioner325 Vacant.1880191 Bailey, J. F, carpet planner and upholsterer193 Atkinson , Mrs, maker of surgical appliances andgeneral stay maker195 Petersen Mrs F, dressmaker197 Smith , Jesse, tailor199 McDonald, Alexander, grocer201 Cook, Edward, scale maker and machinist203 Banks , Charles , boot and shoe warehouse(Little Lonsdale).1858(189 McGee)Parry, David boarding house (?)197 Hill, TB hairdresser199 Smart & Harrison, boarding house201 Toal, Joseph boarding house203 Scoular, Andrew & James merchants(Lt Lonsdale).Municipal rate books [RB].Swanston Street 309-325 – Gipps Ward- City of MelbourneDate Rate no Occupier Owner Description nav18951512 J. F. Bailey Mrs Seaham 309 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 681513 James Gardiner Mrs Seaham 311 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 681514 Alfred Williams Mrs Seaham 313/5 Bk. Shop, 5 16 x 70 681515 G Kelly Mrs Seaham 317 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 681516 Brack ? Mrs Seaham 319 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 681517 Jacob Glass Mrs Seaham 321 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 681518 BLANK Mrs Seaham 323 Bk. Shop, 5, 16 x 70 6818891589 Mrs Bailey Mrs Dillon 309 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751590 James Gardiner Mrs Dillon 311 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751591 A Williams Mrs Dillon 313/5 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751592 G Rosengrew Mrs Dillon 317 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751593 Menhoff ?? Mrs Dillon 319 Bk. Shop, 5 rms.16 x 70 751594 R. McDonnell Mrs Dillon 321 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 16 x 70 751595 Charles Banks Mrs Dillon 323/5 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 16 x 70 9018851627 Mrs Bailey Mrs Dillon 191 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751628 A. Smith Mrs Dillon 193 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751629 W Williams Mrs Dillon 195 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751630 Jesse Smith Mrs Dillon 197 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 751631 Mrs McGhinn Mrs Dillon 199 Bk. Shop, 5 rms.16 x 70 751632 Mark Sampson Mrs Dillon 201 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 16 x 70 751633 Charles Banks Mrs Dillon 203 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 18 x 70 9018801716 John F Bailey Mrs Dillon 191 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601717 Robert Atkinson Mrs Dillon 193 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601718 Mrs Peters Mrs Dillon 195 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601719 Jesse Smith Mrs Dillon 197 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601720 Alexander McDonald Mrs Dillon 199 Bk. Shop, 5 rms.16 x 70 601721 Edward Cook Mrs Dillon 201 Bk. Shop, 16 x 70 601722 Charles Banks Mrs Dillon 203 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 18 x 70 8018751713 Stephen Bailey James Dillon 187 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601714 Thos Leonard James Dillon 189 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601715 Stephen Angel James Dillon 191 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601716 Jesse Smith James Dillon 193 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601717 Alex McDonald James Dillon 195 Bk. Shop, 5 rms.16 x 70 601718 Hexosan Schlam James Dillon 197 Bk. Shop, 5 rms. 16 x 70 601719 Charles Banks James Dillon 199 Bk. Shop, 5rms. 18 x 70 8018701664 Blank James Dillon 191 Bk. Shop, 4 rms. 651665 Thomas H Nott James Dillon 193 Bk. Shop, 4 rms. 651666 Alice Black James Dillon 195 Bk. Shop, 4 rms. 651667 William Smith James Dillon 197 Bk. Shop, 4 rms. 651668 Alexander McDonald James Dillon 199 Bk. Shop, 4 rms. 651669 Hexosan Schlam James Dillon 201 Bk. Shop 4 rms. 651670 Ezekill Oddy James Dillon 203 Bk. Shop 4 rms. 8018651795 Empty William Hawkins 191 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 2 rms. 501796 Thomas Henry Nott William Hawkins 193 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 5rms. 501797 Ignatius Fugh William Hawkins 195 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 3rms. 501798 Jesse Smith William Hawkins 197 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 3 rms. 501799 Alexander McDonald William Hawkins 199 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 4 rms. 501800 William Edwards William Hawkins 201 24 x 60 Bk. Shop 4rms. 501801 Ezekill Oddy William Hawkins 203 16 x 90 Bk. Shop 3 rms. 80RB1860, 1056-1062: 193-201 4 or 5 room brick houses…1860( 1054 I. McGee & Co 189 Bk. house store 1201055 Washington Masonic lodge 191 Bk. Floor or 1054 501056 Andrew Toole 193 Bk. house 5 rms. 801057 ? Ryan 195 Bk. House 5 rms. 801058 Thomas B Hill 197 Bk. House shop 4 rms. 801059 Hawkins or tenant. 199 Bk. House shop 4 rms. 801060 J Rowbothson 201 Bk. House shop 4 rms. 801061 G Atkinson 201 Bk. house 5 rms. 801062 A & J Scoular ? 203 Bk. House shop 4 rms. 1001855( 963 Griffin & McGee 189 Bk. House 1rm. Store 300964 I Abbot 191 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen 120965 Andrew Toole 193 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen 120966 Jane Hopper 195 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen 120967 Samuel Fredric Mann 197 Bk. House 4 rms. Shop & Kitchen 150968 W. Hawkins 199 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen 120969 Fredrick Miller 201 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen 120970 Crawford & Gray Bk. House 2 rms. Shop, store & stables 2501854( 948 William Hawkins 189 Store attached rm. 2 floors 500949 Pierre Mayne 191 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen & small yard 220950 Andrew Toole 193 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen & small yard 220951 Jane Hopper 195 Bk. House 4 rms. Kitchen & small yard 220952 Samuel F Mann 197 Bk. House 3 rms. Shop & store rm. 260953 Egan Baker 199 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 220954 Frederick Miller 201 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 220203?1853( 1127 William Hawkins 189 Bk. house 10 rms. & kitchen 3001128 Charles Collies 191 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 1501129 Mrs Henderson 193 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 1501130 Miss Hopper 195 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 1501131 S F Mann 197 Bk. House 3 rms. Shop & back store 2001132 John Williams 199 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 1501133 Henry Montgomery 201 Bk. House 4 rms. and kitchen 1501134 Jeremiah Dowie 203 Brick corner house, shop 3 rms. Kitchen & stables 2501852No microficheRB 1851-2, 1128 - 1133: 191-199 4 room brick houses (1st known entry)1851:1127 Jeremiah Bone 203 House shop 3 rooms kitchen 4 stall stable 541128 Henry Montgomery 201 House 4 rms. and kitchen 441129 John Ride 199 House 4 rms. and kitchen 441130 John F**ford 197 House shop 3rms. Oven and bakehouse 541131 Jane Hopper 195 House 4 rms. and kitchen 441132 John O’Sullivan 193 House 4 rms. and kitchen off 441133 Charles Collyer 191 House 4 rms. and kitchen off 441850Can not locateRB 1851-2, 1128 - 1133: 191-199 4 room brick houses (1st known entry)
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