2-6 Errol Street, and 502-506 Victoria Street, North Melbourne
Graeme Butler and AssociatesJul-91
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2-6 Errol Street, and 502-506 Victoria Street, North Melbourne
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Jul-91
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BIF-NORTH 109789
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Grading as at 1991 : CPeriod : Mid Victorian (1877)Grantee : George Evans 1852This large complex of shops and residences was owned by David F. Watson, an importer and merchant, after they were built in 1877. The two buildings on the corner were amalgamated under one tenancy, the tenants being drapers, first John Paterson, then Alexander Donnan who was there from c1885 until after 1898. Other tenants in the shops and residences down Errol Street from the corner, were pastry cooks, Thomas Ozanne, Miss E. McCarthy and W.C. Thurgood; fishmongers, C. Johnson, James Matulich and F Lindsay and Maria B Graham, a boot dealer.The Foochow and Calcutta Tea Company, situated during the 1890s at 56 Errol Street, was the importing form operated by David Watson, the owner of these shops and residences. He specialised in the trading of goods from the Orient, but also in product from England and America such as irons, oils, wine and spirits. He promoted the use of wood from Borneo and was the sole agent for the London and Portland Cement Company in Australia. [Victoria and its Metropolis p 577]Using the serlian window group, (common in the area's commercial architecture) at the upper level, this two-storey stuccoed brick shop and residential complex occupies an extensive site at the Victoria, Errol Streets corner. What was formerly a balustraded and piered parapet is underscored by a cornice mould and successive string-moulds, whilst the sparse remaining decoration consists of the foliated panels in the piers dividing the three lights of the serlian group. A Corporation pattern iron street verandah follows the Errol Street elevation whilst a timber verandah faces Victoria Street, possibly paralleling with the general shop front style which appears to be from early this century, possessing leaded top lights to a generally ingo-type plan which relates to the original. [Board of Works DP 759]Architecturally, large but altered early commercial building, contributing to a largely contemporary streetscape and possessing valuable street verandahs: of local importance. Historically, a major commercial venue in the area over a long period: of local importance.Site of the well known Bogarts restaurant
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