495-497 Spencer Street, West Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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495-497 Spencer Street, West Melbourne
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Jul-99
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108861
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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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Grading as at 1999 : DPeriod : Mid Victorian (Italianate) c 1886The pair of shops at 495-497 Spencer Street was constructed c1886. It first appears in the Sands & McDougall directory for 1887, when No. 495 was occupied by John R Greenwood, and No. 497 was listed as vacant. In the following year, the occupants were William Beech and Mrs Catherine Morris.It is a single storey rendered Italianate style building, originally two shops but now combined as one. A moulded string course extends across the façade between corbels, and the parapet is surmounted by a pair of scrolled segmented arched pediments. The shopfronts have been altered.It is of local aesthetic and historical significance, being demonstrative of commercial development of the nineteenth century Boom period, a major phase in the history of West and North Melbourne. Despite alterations, the overall nineteenth century form of the building is apparent, and contributes to the heritage character of the streetscape in this part of Spencer Street.
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