Part Mary Ridley Trust shops and residence, (stable, rear 145-147 Lonsdale Street), 28 Corrs Lane, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Part Mary Ridley Trust shops and residence, (stable, rear 145-147 Lonsdale Street), 28 Corrs Lane, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 110702
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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2024:__________________________________________________DATE: 1885;ASSOCIATIONS: Mary Ridley Trust;DESIGNERS: Evans & Birtwhistle;BUILDER: William RogersPeriod: VictorianSign 1985: Yamato Japanese restaurant_______________________GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDY(Extract)Statement of SignificanceShops and Residences145-147 Lonsdale StreetHistoryBuilt: 1885Sited at the top end of Corr's Lane, this pair shares some of the history of 12-16 Corr's Lane (q.v.). First created in 1842 as a 21-foot frontage to Lonsdale Street, it passed eventually to James Miller, whose estate was wound up in 1874.9 Mrs. Miller sold to Mrs. Mary Ridley, but not before a timber house on the site was replaced with two brick shops, (then numbers 150-152).1Builder, William Rogers, sought to build here early in 1885, using Evans & Birtwhistle's design. Their project was described as 'two three-storey shops and dwellings,'- but the early rate descriptions have five rooms for each and Mahlstedt's 1887 plan shows two-storeys. The pair united by later varying from use as a warehouse to that of offices. Mary Ridleys Trust carried through until the mid-1930s. Lionel and Perry Boyce owned it during the late 1940s and 1950s. Early in that period it was used as George Doughartys tailor shop and Miss Kennedys dressmaking salon, later as a wine shop/cafe it was run by Mrs. Quintrell, Thomas Hunt and J. Theodore, up until the From the Amusement Machine Co. of the 1930s to the Atlas Scale and Machine Co. (also amusement machines) of the 1950s, its use became of a warehouse/workshop one, although today's tenancies (florist, cafe) have returned to early uses. The facade was modernized in 1946DescriptionLittle survives externally from the on the Lonsdale Street elevation, the two having been extensively renovated in the 1940s, prior to the Amusement Machine occupation. However, at the rear of 147 (facing Corr's Lane) the two-storey stable (now a Japanese restaurant) is still evocative of this period. (This lot was separated from the 145-7 site in 184S and maybe earlier than the shops, but MMBW and Mahlstedt's plans show it as connected).Shop fronts are sympathetic to the earlier period given the raised plinths.External IntegrityRelatively intact to the 1946 renovation period in Lonsdale Street and similarly to the 1880s facing Corr's Lane, but with a new ground-level doorway and window, and bagged and painted finish to bricks.StreetscapeMatches the scale of adjoining Lonsdale Street sites, but little else. The stable closes the view down Corr's Lane.SignificanceA wine cafe for the longest period of any one use in its history, and the rear stable and loft continue in this use (restaurant) while the Lonsdale Street elevations are a mixture of periods and otherwise unrelated to any of the precinct's major historical themes. The stable (Corr's Lane) is significant as one of the few evident in the CAD (the only one?) and as a terminating streetscape element at the end of the lane.28 Corrs Lane contributes to precinctNOTES1 RB 1885, 7062 BA 1252. 5/1/18853 Plan 4: RB1895,651-24 RB1905, 5875 BA 237926 BA 73267 RB1945,363f8 RB1879-1950______________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM_______________________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYsee https://issuu.com/graemebutler21/docs/little_bourke_st_precinct_conservatSee Statement of Significance for notes and 1989 Chinatown images.
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