Melrose Hotel, 363-365 Flemington Road, North Melbourne, 191-195 Melrose Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18-Jan-85
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Melrose Hotel, 363-365 Flemington Road, North Melbourne, 191-195 Melrose Street, North Melbourne
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18-Jan-85
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Grading as at 1985 (A-E) : DPeriod : Interwar, on the site of a previous hotelDouble storey former hotel___________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)1920https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/255881244O'Meara sale described as weatherboard`Buyers can inspect at Auctioneer's office, plans and specifications for erection of new modern hotel, 2 shops and -cottage property.For New Hotel ONLY purchaser can be found to take a five years' lease.1924https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4336358Sydney SMITH OGG, and SERPELLTENDERS Until Soon, 6th June, for REERECTING MELROSE HOTEL___________________________LOVELL CHEN 2022 NORTH MELBOURNE HERITAGE REVIEWInterwar hotel architectureIn terms of the building’s architecture, the architects, Sydney Smith & Ogg, contributed to the substantial body ofGreek and Roman Revival-themed hotels constructed across Melbourne during the 1920s and early 1930s both bySydney Smith, Ogg & Serpell and by others. Serpell had joined the firm at a time when the Grecian Revival idiomwas emerging as the house style for Carlton United Breweries, noting that by this time, the brewer owned most ofthe hotels in the inner metropolitan area.Hotels of this period by Sydney Smith, Ogg & Serpell constructed on a consistent formula comprising formal twostoreybuildings tempered by a Beaux Arts Classicism. They incorporated square rather than rounded or chamferedcorners with tiles to dado height at the ground floor level. The first floor was expressed as a piano nobile - oftenincorporating a balcony with a colonnade of Grecian Revival or Renaissance Revival inspiration. Broad parapets inthe form of classical pediments typically capped street elevations. The Hotel Spencer, 475 Spencer Street, WestMelbourne (1933, HO781) was the firm’s last in the Greek Revival idiom (The Argus 15 December 1933: 6.) CharlesOgg died in 1932 and Sydney Smith died in the following year. Their work contributed to the substantial body ofGreek and Roman Revival-themed hotels constructed during the 1920s and early 1930s.Examples of hotel work in this style, both by Sydney Smith, Serpell & Ogg and by others, across the metropolitanarea, albeit outside the study area, include:• Tankerville Arms, Nicholson Street, Fitzroy (significant in Yarra precinct HO334, Figure 15)• Royal Oak Hotel, Nicholson Street Fitzroy (significant in Yarra precinct HO327)• St Andrews (later Pumphouse) Hotel, Nicholson Street Fitzroy (significant in Yarra precinct HO361)• Terminus Hotel cnr Rushall Street and Queens Parade, North Fitzroy (significant in Yarra precinctHO330)• Town Hall Hotel, Fitzroy (significant in Yarra precinct HO334, Figure 16)• Richmond Club Hotel, Richmond (significant in Yarra precinct HO335 Figure 17)• Bayview Hotel, Cecil Street, South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440)• Cricket Club Hotel, South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440)• George Hotel, Cecil Street, South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440• Limerick Arms, Clarendon Street, South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440• O’Connell’s Hotel, Coventry Street South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440, Figure18)• Former Hotel Nelson, City Road, South Melbourne (significant in Port Phillip precinct HO440)• Former Duke of York Hotel, High Street, Prahran (Stonnington individual HO404)The Albion Hotel, along with the former Melrose Hotel, are both examples of the firm’s work in the study area
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