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Victorian Civil Ambulance Service headquarters and garage, 58-64 La Trobe Street, Melbourne

Butler, Graeme1985

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Butler, Graeme (Name details)

Date of work:

1985

Reference number:

BIF-CITY 105491

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

UnrestrictedPlease contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

General notes:

RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:__________________________________________________Period: Post Second WarDATE: 1957-8;ASSOCIATIONS: Victorian Civil Ambulance Service;DESIGNER: Meldrum & Noad Architects;BUILDER: Thompson and Chalmers..Ambulance Victoria Museum AHSV1096https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/57633059d0cdd12344aebe42Architectural drawing for the proposed new Victorian Civil Ambulance Service headquarters at 64 Latrobe Street Melbourne. From photographs of this site after construction, it is possible that this architectural proposal was the successful design for this building.Colour drawing in black timber frame. five story building.Inscriptions & markingsNEW OFFICE BUILDING PARKING GARAGE AND REPAIR GARAGE.HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES COMMISSION-TENTH REPORT 1958Building works were essentially completed during the year at these institutions, Victorian Civil Ambulance Service-Headquarters building at Melbourne.FACEBOOK 2021https://www.facebook.com/groups/1354161871314774/posts/4736769289720665/(picture of c213 Lonsdale St)Robert Thompson1957 my father Frank Thompson built the new Victorian Civil Ambulance Service HQ at 64 Latrobe St Melbourne. Builders Thompson and Chalmers Mount Alexander Rd Flemington Vic..St John History Volume 11, 2011–2012https://stjohn.org.au/assets/uploads/history%20journal/History_vol_11.pdf`...Eirene became a member of Council of St John Ambulance Association in 1915. The chairman was DrJohn Springthorpe and other members of council at the time included Mrs Janet McKinley, Dr CharlesBage and Howard Hansford (superintendent of the St John sponsored Victorian Civil AmbulanceService, the corporation recently formed to take responsibility from the financially troubled St Johncharitable ambulance service).The two organisations shared the same building in Lonsdale Street opposite the old MelbourneHospital, from 1914 until 1950. By this time Victorian Civil Ambulance Service had come largely underGovernment control and moved to purpose-built premises in Latrobe Street whilst St John renovateda warehouse in Little Lonsdale Street, now the poor relation of the once fragile offspring…'

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Central Activities District Conservation Study 1985Conservation studiesPostwar periodAmbulances

Places:

Melbourne (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1249542