Mitchell & Casey P/L printers, 23-25 Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne
Graeme Butler and Associates01/07/1989
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Mitchell & Casey P/L printers, 23-25 Tattersalls Lane, Melbourne
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2024:__________________________________________________Period: 1876-1899Construction date: 1894___________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceWarehouses23-29 Tattersall's Lane, partHistoryBuilt: 1893-4 reconstruction?lsaac Buchanan (trustee of Grantee, Oliver Gourlay) sold this island site (lots 14-16 of the 1860s subdivision) to Joseph Davis & Nelson Polak for £1171 and (the central section) 10 George Mowling for £1168, both in 1860- 1 7 Samuel & Lorris Solomon bought the Lonsdale and Swanston corner site in the same period, completing the Jewish flavour to this part of Swanston/Lonsdale Streets 8 .Mowling owned the whole block by 1861, selling to Robert Neave in 1871 fora modest £425. Solomon was the new owner by 1872 9. Solomon & Co., carpenters and furniture retailers owned a four-level brick building (then equivalent to 23-29 TattersalI's Lane) as their saw mill and manufactory, on this site, from its construction in c1877.10 Their showrooms were at 240 Russell Street during the 1880s (q.v.)An early view of the building shows a chimney at the north-east corner, a horizontal parapet and close-centred arched openings at each level. It was not this building but was similar in volume.Their occupancy continued until the late 1880s but the Bank of New South Wales had owned the building (mortgage?) from early in that decade and perhaps this explained Solomon's eventual departure. However its change of use to that of four (now two) four-level brick warehouses and substantial valuation drop (£300 to £120) in 1893-4 would have to be explained by something other than the current economic depression.Its next major occupier (as a factory), Mitchell & Casey P/L printers and publishers, was also the owner by c1915 after the AMP society had owned it from the early 1890s. Mitchell & Casey remained there into the 1950s, publishing the Wine and Spirit News and Australian Vigneron, Home Gardener and the Victorian Poultry Journal by 1940.Plans from 1887 show the first building as an island site but linked by an aerial bridge to 247-253 Lonsdale Street (Swanston Street corner) which was Solomon's extensive two and three-storey furniture warehouse. 6 By c1899 it is shown as a row of four and owned by Australian Mutual Provident Society. (AMP) with agents as architects, Hyndman & Bates. 7 Since., it has been partitioned internally for use as a store (1956) and later as offices (1986)8.DescriptionA face brick gabled warehouse pair on four levels with segment-arch fenestration and in near original condition (except for the demolition of 27-29).External integrityGround level painted, minor opening alterations (steel framed upper windows) and a pseudo gantry plus bracketed hood over the entry have been added recently,StreetscapeMixed warehouses from a later date but all similarly austere. A vacant site adjoins on the north.SignificanceSymbolic only of one of the area's largest buildings (five levels) which preceded it on this site, the building has achieved historical associations from the later occupancy by publishers, Mitchell & Casey, but is otherwise a near original but typical warehouse from the area's major growth period.Contributes to precinctNotes:7 SN 4131(VICTORIAN TITLES OFFICE)8 ibid9 ibid10 RB1877; RB1878, 391 1st entry; 1880 panorama.1. Victoria Illustrated2 RB1882,414 (RB- Melbourne City rate book)3 RB1895,364-54. RB1915,286; RB1895, 364-55 D1940 (DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, SANDS & MCDOUGALL6 Mahlstedt, Standard Plans of the City Melbourne 18877 Mahlstedt, Fire Insurance Plans of Melbourne. 1906; MMBW DRP7520, 1899 (MMBW Drainage Plan)8 BA 30141. BA 61477 (BA- CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION)___________________________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_conservat___________________________Victorian Heritage Inventory H7822-1357Building on site, 1866. In 1860s this site (lots 14-16) sold by Isaac Buchanan, Trustee of Oliver Gourlay (original grantee). Eventually purchased by Solomon, 1872. By 1877 Solomon & Co., carpenters and furniture retailers owned a four level brick building (# 23-29) as their sawmill and manufactory. Building apparently rebuilt 1893-4 as row of warehouses. Next major occupier, Mitchell & Casey, Printers & Publishers who became owners by 1915 until the 1950s.______________________________________________________Sophie Couchman 2000, Tong Yun Gai (Street of the Chinese)Investigating patterns of work and social life in Melbourne’s Chinatown 1900-1920Fig. 3.5 Upper floors of 23 Tattersalls Lane, 1999Only two of the previous four buildings remain on this site. This four-storey site was occupied atvarious times by Nunan Bros, Buckley & Nun and Renwick, Pride & Nuttall printers___________________________NEWSPAPERS (TROVE):1916https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242343461THROUGH FIRE AND WATERFire broke out at 7.41 p.m. yesterday at 23. Tattersall's Lane, off Lonsdale street, in, a brick ' and iron three-storied building, owned by Mr W. Mitchell. and occupied by Mr J. N. Williams, electroplater, and Messrs Mitchell and Casey, printers. The rear portion of the building and the contents- on the second and third floors were slightly damaged by fire, arid the contents of the ground floor were slightly affected by water..1939https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11238947A pedestrian was killed and a motor- cyclist was injured in an accident in Station avenue, Aspendale, on Saturday afternoon. The pedestrian, Robert William Casey, of Second street, Aspendale, died soon after admittance to the Alfred Hospital. The motor-cyclist, Louis George Tout, of Thames promenade, Chelsea, was treated at the hospital for abrasions to the head. Mr. Casey, who was aged 67 years, was a partner in the firm of Mitchell and Casey Pty. Ltd., printers, of Tattersalls lane. city. He joined the firm in 1914, but retired from active association with it recently owing to ill-health. He leaves a widow and two daughters. The funeral will go to Fawkner crematorium at 10 a.m. to-day. Arrangements are by Bathurst and Decker Pty. Ltd. George M. Chester, aged about 60 years, of Michael street, Fitzroy, was killed instantly when his motor-cycle and a car collided at the intersection of St. George's road and Bell street, Preston, on Saturday night. Funding for digitisation contributed by State Library Victoria
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