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Graeme Butler and Associates01/07/1989
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Title:
Day's printery, 103-105 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Creator:
Graeme Butler and Associates
Date of work:
01/07/1989
Reference number:
BIF-CITY 105673
Level of description:
Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
Type of materials:
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Series: Central City (BIF-CITY)
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2022:__________________________________________________Period: EdwardianConstruction date: 1908ASSOCIATIONS: George Tallis, of the Princess' Theatre;DESIGNER: Pitt, W? Smith & Ogg? Tompkins, H W & F B?;BUILDER: J J Oliver.GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceFactory, 103-105 Lonsdale StreetHistoryBuilt: 1908Although George Tallis owned this site, it was its long-term occupier Sydney Day (printer) who applied to build `...a brick factory...' there in May, 1908. His builder was J.J. Oliver, of Queens Parade, Fitzroy, but no architect is recorded on the application. However, given the designs done for other printeries in the city, it is possible that it was Nahum Barnet. By cl940 Day's print works had given way to the .more anonymous City Service Press, although they were still the proprietors by the 1960s. Other printing works were established in Tattersall’s Lane this century,DescriptionA three-storey brick and stucco parapeted warehouse, with tall arched window elements and Romanesque revival details generally, including the entrance arch and Arts and Crafts plant motifs in the upper level arch spandrels. The parapet is severe with minor main raised entablature and flanking pepper-pot piers which descend on either side of the building elevation to the rust floor level, corbelling back into the main wall. The side elevation is near intact with a corbelled stone corner, limber window joinery and squint sills.External IntegrityGenerally externally original, but recently renovated where colours relating 10 the period have been applied to joinery and cement work. Ground level window sills (similar to side elevation) have been lowered to ground level (1987).StreetscapePart of a similarly fenestrated and scaled warehouse elevation which extends to the west as far as 117.Significance:Architecturally a typical Romanesque revival style of the period. Still, it possesses valuable foliated ornamentation and in near original condition. It is also symbolic of one of the later furniture warehouses in the area's long association with that activity..GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYcites: CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION 857, 2/5/08; RB 1909-10,.362DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE, SANDS & MCDOUGALL 1940, 1920, 1962.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBuilding Identification Form.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX76384 Day, Sydney - Printer Melbourne VIC Factories Oliver, J J - 54 Queens Parade Fitzroy 1908 05 2 857, MCC registration no 857 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.3.0brick factoryTallis entries72688 Pitt, W Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Warehouses McDonald, R. - 161 Flinders Lane 1912 06 20 341473256 Pitts, W Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Warehouses Fry, Chris - 3 Heidelberg Rd Clifton Hill 1910 11 5 228273329 Smith & Ogg Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Garages Oliver, Joseph F - 54 Queens Pde Fitzroy 1909 10 25 163873341 Purnell, A W Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Warehouses Reynolds Bros - 120 Rose St Fitzroy 1914 06 23 500774830 Pitt, W Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Warehouses McDonald, R. - 161 Flinders Lane 1912 06 20 341475260 Tompkins, H W & F B Fink, Theodore & Tallis, George Melbourne VIC Warehouses Langford, Clement - Bridge Rd Richmond 1913 09 20 436775261 Tompkins, H W & F B Fink & Tallis Melbourne VIC Warehouses Shillabeer, F - Footscray 1914 08 5 5116.CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEW103-105 Lonsdale Street, 1908 (Significant in HO507 Little Bourke Street Precinct) Former warehouse/factory originally of three storeys. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style and built by J J Oliver in 1908. Now an office building with ground level retail it was refurbished and sub-divided in 2008 with the addition of two extra storeys and an accessible rooftop..NEWSPAPERS:The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Mon 7 Nov 1927 Page 8 LONSDALE -STREET FIRE.Considerable Damage Done.The top floor and portion of the contents of the three-story building occupied by Syd. Day Ltd., printers, 103-105 Lonsdale-street, city, in which an outbreak of fire occurred shortly before midnight on Friday, were severely damaged by fire. Contents of the first floor were slightly damaged by water.The building, which is owned by Sir George Tallis, is insured in the Triton Insurance Co. for £4500. The contents are insured in the Colonial Mutual Batavia, Pacific, Australian. Mutual and North British insurance companies for various amounts. The cause of the fire is unknown.
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103 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne (Butler14216\\)
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City of Melbourne
Topics:
Little Bourke Historic Precinct StudyConservation studiesPrintersFactories1900-1909BricksChinatown (Melbourne, Vic.)
Places:
Melbourne (Vic.)
Form/Genre:
Building Identification Forms (BIFs)
Record types:
Research and reports
Record number:
1249605
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