Former Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins Factory, 133 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99
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Former Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins Factory, 133 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne
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Jul-99
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108411 528895
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Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)
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The building at 133 Rosslyn Street is first listed in the Sands & McDougall directory of 1946. Its first occupants were Felton Grimwade & Duerdins, Wholesale Druggists and Importers and Manufacturing Chemists. The company was established in 1867. Frederick Sheppard Grimwade, a shrewd English businessman, borrowed funds from his father to purchase the Melbourne drug company from Edward Youngman, renamed Felton Grimwade & Co. Alfred Felton, Grimwade's partner, was originally apprenticed to a chemist and gained prominence from his bequest of more than £2,000,000 to charity and the Melbourne National Gallery. By the late nineteenth century the company was the largest drug house in Victoria and had subsidiary interests in companies in New Zealand and Western Australia. Felton and Grimwade also established a number of other enterprises including bottle manufacturing and acid works and salt manufacturing.The former Felton Grimwade and Duerdins Factory is a three-storey Moderne style factory constructed or red brick with a projecting four-storey corner bay and parapetted roof. Relatively austere, the cubic building is punctuated by a series of square and rectangular steel-framed windows with horizontal glazing bars.It is of local aesthetic and historical interest. Historically, the factory derives significance by its association with the prominent Grimwade family and Alfred Felton, prominent Melbourne philanthropist. Aesthetically, the building is a typical and relatively intact example of an inter-War factory, and a prominent element in the streetscape.By the 1980s it was the premises of Sparks and Chandler, wholesale florists. It has since been demolished
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