Peaconlakis Café, later Nicks Wine merchants, site of McLean's Gippsland Hotel, 13 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Peaconlakis Café, later Nicks Wine merchants, site of McLean's Gippsland Hotel, 13 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2023:__________________________________________________Rebuilt 1921Period: InterwarSign 1984: Nicks Wine Merchants.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM_________________________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 77745 Hyndman & Bates; Gillot, Sir Samuel Melbourne VIC Hotels; Shops Bade & Co - Elwood St Nth Brighton 1904 03 18 9271-MCC registration no 9271 [Burchett Index]. Fee 11.0.0three shops & hotel, Swanston - 65/7377738 Hyndman & Bates; Gillott, Samuel & Thompson, Joseph Melbourne VIC Shops Sinclair, William - 12 Garton St Carlton 1899 07 17 7581-MCC registration no 7581 [Burchett Index]. Fee 9.9.0three shops, Swanston - 163-5_________________________________________MAHLSTEDT FIRE INSURANCE PLAN SERIESMap 121888 Gippsland Hotel at 9 Swanston Street, 2 storey masonry, 20' frontage -W G Green (11-13 in same group?)1910 Gippsland Hotel at 13 Swanston Street, 2 storey masonry, (pasted in, with 15 and 17) - door each side of Public Bar window with basement and private rooms at rear_________________________________________CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONShttps://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60672/images/44777_349578-001341921Feb 23 3204 ₤5000 alterations to hotelSep 3590 fitting electric signAug erection of verandah1923addition to café etc_________________________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)see https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4440193 for 1881 Swanston street..1890https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147281329Wills and Bequests.NEIL McLean, late of Tooronga-road, Hawthorn, gentleman, formerly of Swanston-street, Melbourne, grocer, by his will dated 24th September, 1887, and presented for probate by Messrs Godfrey and Bullen, solicitors, appointed his son Malcolm, his daughter Ellen and his grandson, Neil McLean, son of his deceased son, Henry McLean, when he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, executors and executrix. He bequeathed all his buggies, ponies, harness, horses, cows and other live, stock and his household furniture, linen, china, plate, glass, books, pictures, wines, jewellery and other household effects to his said daughter, Ellen McLean. He left all his mining and other shares to his son Malcolm and his daughter Ellen in equal shares, and in the event of the death of either of them to the survivor. He devised his land at Ferntree Gully unto and to the use of his said son Malcolm and daughter Ellen as joint tenants. He bequeathed unto his son Malcolm his property known as No. 11, Swanston-street, Melbourne, including the rooms on the first floor thereof now used in connection with the Gippsland Hotel and let with such hotel, and also the land used as a right-of-way at the rear of Nos. 9, 11, and 13, Swanston-street, and his right, title and interest in such land and the store erected over the last mentioned land, together with the use of the walls separating Nos. 9 and 13, Swanston street, Melbourne, from No. 11 and from the store thereof. He devised unto his son Malcolm and his grandson Neil Malcolm McLean (as a separate trust in favor of his said daughter Ellen) his property known as 13 Swanston-street, Melbourne, together with the use of the right-of-way at the rear thereof. They are to receive the rents from the property, and pay them during her life to his daughter Ellen and on her death to her children; but in the default of her leaving no issue the property is to be sold, and the profits arising therefrom equally divided between his daughters Sarah Lawrence, Margaret McKinnon, and Catherine Smith. He devised his property known as the Gipps land Hotel, Swanston-street, Melbourne, to his trustees, and ordered them to pay the rents arising from the property to Mrs. Henry McLean until her youngest child shall attain the age of twenty-one years, when the property is to be sold and the proceeds divided equally amongst her children. As to the residue of his estate he directed his trustees to pay £400 to his brother-in-law, David Dunlop, £100 to his sister, Margaret E. McFall, of Ireland ; £100 to his sister, Ellen Rankin, of Ireland ; £100 to his sister-in-law, Catherine Guston, of Ireland ; £100 to his sister Agnes McLean, of Ireland ; and £100 to his brother Henry McLean, of Ireland. He empowered his trustees to invest £4000 and pay the income therefrom to his daughter, Sarah Lawrence, and after her death to her children in equal shares. In the event of her leaving no issue, this sum is to go to his daughters, Margaret McKinnon and Catherine Smith in equal shares. He directed his trustees to invest £4000 upon similar trust for each of his daughters, Sarah Lawrence and Catherine Smith, and empowered them to invest £3000 upon the same trust for his son Thomas. The residue of his estate he left to his daughter Ellen. By a codicil dated 24th April, 1888, he directed his son Malcolm to pay to his trustees the sum of £2000 within three years from the date of his death ; £1000 of which is left to his daugh- ter, Sarah Lawrence, and £1000 to his daughter, Catherine Smith on the similar trust as the £4000 mentioned in the will. The deceased died 21st December, 1889, at Hawthorn, and his estate was sworn at £54,015 real, and £12,652 personal. Total, £66,667. JOSEPH Harris, late of Union-street, Brunswick, gentleman, by his will dated 1st July, 1889, and presented for probate by Mr. Henry Butler, solicitor, appointed Mrs. Mary Ann Wader, of Brunswick, executrix, and left to her all his real and personal estate absolutely. The decease.1899The Gippsland Hotel, in Swanston-street, was this afternoon sold by Messrs. Gemmell, Tuckett and Co. for £15,250..The bidding started at £10,000..1901JOHN M'DONALD DEAD.ANOTHER OLD IDENTITY REMOVED.The worst fears with regard to the condition of Mr J. M'Donald proprietor of the Albion Hotel, were realised on Sunday afternoon, when he passed away peacefully, at Dr. Fitzgerald's private hospital, in the presence of his son and daughter, Mr Frank and Miss Maud M'Donald, after a lengthy but futile struggle against that fell malady, dropsy. Mr M'Donald was a native of Cork, and came to Australia with his parents 54 years ago, the family's feet abode being at West Maitland, N.S.W. Upon arriving at years of discretion Mr M'Donald went into business as a stockdealer, and in this capacity travelled over the greater portion of of N.S.W. and Queensland.He came to Gippsland in 1878, with a consider able sum of money as the result of his stock ventures, and for some time was in occupation of the Fulham estate, Sale. About the first to make Mr M'Donald's acquaintance in Gipps land was Mr A. J. Webb, then manager of the Bank of Australasia at Sale, and the two have been firm friends ever since. Mr M'Donald subsequently went into the hotel business. He took, and gave its present name to, the Gippsland Hotel in Swanston street, and was also for a while the proprietor of the National Hotel, in Bourke street. From there he went to Lindenow, where, for a long time, he conducted the hotel there, rebuilding and refurnishing it His next move was to Bairnsdale, where he took the Imperial Hotel and subsequently built the Albion, where he has lived ever since. During, his residence in Gippsland Mr M'Donald resumed his old occupation of cattle dealing, a business in which his natural shrewdness and judgment stood him in excellent stead. He made money rapidly, and soon became well-known throughout Gipps land as a buyer who insisted on paying spot cash for all purchases, whether the amount was £1 or £1000. This peculiarity earned for him the sobriquet of "Cash Mac," by which he was far more generally known titan by his proper name.The deceased, who will be greatly missed in Bairnsdale for a long time to come, leaves a widow, daughter and two sons. Mrs M'Donald was telegraphed for when it became apparent that the end was near, but he was unable to reach her husband's bedside in time to see him alive. The body was embalmed and brought on to Bairnsdale by the first train yesterday and placed in St. Mary's Church to await the interment, which will take place in the Bairnsdale cemetery this afternoon..1911https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10899732YOUNG AND JACKSON'S HOTEL LICENSE IN QUESTION.BOARD RESERVES DECISION.…..1913https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/7287620SIR SAMUEL GILLOTT'S WILL....The principal Melbourne hospitals and the University of Melbourne will benefitvery largely under the will of the late Sir Samuel Gillott, he having practically, leftthe whole of his estate, subject to a life interest of Lady Gillott, and some legaciesto those institutions. The total value of the estate has not yet been ascertained, but, itwas estimated by Sir Samuel Gillott himself some time ago at something approaching £300,000.. .The estate is nearly all invested in city and suburban real estate, including nearly 200ft in Collins street nearly as much in Swanston street over 400ft in Chapel street Prahran, and smaller properties in Bourke street and hotels and other properties in different suburbs There are in Collins street, Royal Cafe, and shop adjoining, and Nos 133 and 135 179 to 179, and 183 to 189, Bourke street. Nos 150 and 229, Swanston street Gippsland Hotel, Town Hall Hotel, and shops were 143 and moieties of Maritime Chambers at the corner of Little Collins street and of Nos 161 to 165 Chapel street and Walker street Prahran shops. Albion Hotel, Lygon street, Carlton Linton s Hotel Drummond street Carlton Royal Oak Hotel, Victoria street Abbotsford Commercial Hotel Victoria Parade, Fitzroy; Richmond Coffee Palace Swan street Richmond, and No 188 Swan street adjoining, shops and house in Toorak road and land in Dandenong1915PROPERTY SALES. CITY PREMISES CHANGE HANDS.Messrs J R Buxton and Co of 422 Collis street have effected a sale of the Gippsland Hotel Swanston street, which stands on land 19ft 6¾ in. frontage In a depth of 119ft 1¾ in to right of way. The actual price is not disclosed, but is in the vicinity of £20000. The purchaser is Mr A Peppas, of the Blue Bird Cafe, Collins street The Gippsland Hotel belonged to the estate of the late Sir Samuel Gillott and other city sales in the same estate were - Evans' Covent Garden Cafe, Nos 163 and 165 Swanston street, a three storied brick building…etc..1919For the Gippsland Hotel, Swanston street,' Melbourne, £28,000 was paid last Thursday. The frontage is 119 feet 1.3/4 inches..1936https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244727550"Tell me, young man, where I can get good food in Melbourne today?" "Where are the counter lunches of yesteryear?" cried the whiskered one. "I would have you think of counter lunches in Melbourne in the 'nineties. Where the State Savings Bank in Swanston Street now stands once sit Mrs Champion. I always looked in at Champion's about 11 o'clock in the morning. Mrs Champion herself would be seated in the sixpenny bar. The grosser beer drinkers were elsewhere. In the more comfortable room I discussed my whisky. There a counter was set out with good things— four or five huge joints, a leg of pork, a round of corned beef, roast ribs of beef, a cheese, an enormous jar of pickled onions, bread and butter." The sausage-eater turned a fascinated gaze upon the whiskered one. "Yes, my friends," he said, "those were the days of counter lunches, the spacious days — 20, 30, 40 years ago.From Mrs Champion's I would saunter down to Higgins's Gippsland Hotel in Swanston Street, to be confronted in the sixpenny bar with a similar gorgeous spectacle, the great joints there flanked with black and white puddings."He swallowed a few whiskies and became sentimental. "In those days." he said, "a gentleman could meet gentlemen in the pubs— in Mrs Lane's in Collins Street; in the private bar at the Port Phillip. "There I have conversed with Alfred Tennyson Dickens, son of the immortal Charles Dickens— a living figure from the immortal books, with moustaches and the shining bell-topper on the side of his head. I have heard Dr. Bride chatting in Latin with George Walstab. . . . And now I must keep company with beer-swillers."_________________________________________DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL191513 Gippsland hotel-Higgins , William H.15 Hooker, James E., fruit cafe19 Hearne , Hy„ pork butcher21 Wilson, R. G., & Co, gers & wine.192013 Gippsland hotel—Barry, Jno.15 Hooker, James E., frtr & confr.192513 Peaconlakis. J. & Co. dining rooms13 Hesse, Fredk. F., mercer.193011a PRINCE'S CHAMBERSTurner, F. & G., dentists13 Polites, J., cafe13 Bates & Co, chocolate depot15 Spooner, W. H., pastr ycook & cafe19 Hearnes Pty Ltd, pork butchers19aKleiner, H. II., auction rooms21 Criterion Soda Fountain (cafe)—Lean. R.23 Cooke, F., bt dlr25 Davis & Davis, tlrs27 ALEXANDER'S BUILDING-
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