Miss Rundle's factory, 124-126 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Miss Rundle's factory, 124-126 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 106053
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2022:__________________________________________________DATES: 1913-14, 1929;ASSOCIATIONS: Rundle, Miss Ruby A J;DESIGNER: Vanheems, G W;BUILDER: Stahl Bros - Hopetoun Ave Brunswick__________________________________________________GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS 4428__________________________________________________LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 74910 Vanheems, G W; Rundle, Miss Ruby A J Melbourne VIC Factories Stahl Bros - Hopetoun Ave Brunswick 1913 10 14 4428 MCC registration no 4428 [Burchett Index]. Fee 2.2.0two-storey brick factory Little Lonsdale - 124 -__________________________________________________VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY H7822-11101866 map shows buildings along Little Lonsdale Street frontage (between Bennetts & Exploration Lanes).1905 - 2 storey building, Poon Kee, cabinetmaker.__________________________________________________CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWLittle Lonsdale Street Precinct (extension of Little Lon Precinct): contributory to precinct.__________________________________________________Graeme Butler & Associates 2010. HERITAGE ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS AT 116-132 LITTLE LONSDALE ST, MELBOURNERundle’s Factory, 124-126 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne 3000HistoryThis building is part of a building group located on Allotments 13-14 of Section 26, Parish of North Melbourne, adjoining allotment 12. John Wollaston* was the crown grantee of two blocks 12 & 13 sold in 1848-9, allotment 12 for ₤167 and allotment 13 for ₤164. Douglas Thomas Kilburn was the crown grantee of land surrounding this site in 1848-9: Allotments 14 & 15, Section 26.Kilburn subdivided these two blocks, also creating Bennetts Lane.James Loftus sold the lot to Patrick Casey in 1852 for ₤60, measuring 19 feet by 72 feet and terminating a right-of-way running east from Bennetts Lane. As with the adjoining Leitrim Hotel, Pat Casey shaved a slim margin off the west side of the lot to allow Martin Rooney to build a party wall for his first hotel cum shop in 1855. Casey mortgaged the property to James Quirk in 1862 for ₤100 which may indicate improvements. A series of mortgages followed involving Julia Casey into the 1880s when it was purchased by q building society for ₤50 .Patrick Casey’s name was in the 1850s daily press in connection with a potentially stolen horse and drayTEN POUNDS REWARD.-Stolen or Strayed from opposite the Newmarket lintel, Great Bourke…a Black Horse, branded B on near shoulder, O on near side neck, and a Wharf Dray… Ten pounds willl be given, (stolen) on conviction, and Five Pound (If strayed) Apply to PATRICK CASEY, Little Lonsdale-street, near the Old Ship InnHowever in 1858 Casey’s wife met her death.THOMAS JENNINGS, undertaker, 128 Queen-street.THE friends of Mr. PATRICK CASEY are respectfully invited to follow the remains of his late wife to the place of interment, the New Cemetery (later Melbourne General). The funeral to move from his residence, 121 Little Lonsdale-street east, this day (Wednesday), 10th inst., at half-past 2 o'clock p.m.Mrs Casey was also named in the press in the 1870s in a case of `sudden death’.A very sudden death occurred during Saturday night. A labourer named Cornelius Hourigan, living in Bennett's-lane, off Little Lonsdale street east, who had been drinking for the last seven or eight days, behaved in so strange a manner on Saturday evening that his wife was afraid to stop at home, and stayed during ' the night at the house of a neighbour, named Julia Casey. On starting for early mass in the morning, she asked Mrs. Casey to look in and see how Hourigan was, and on Mrs. Casey doing so, at about 9 o'clock, she found him lying dead on the floor of his bedroom with his clothes on. The man appeared to have been wandering about the house, and to have lain down on the floor, where he died. There were no marks of violence. An inquest will be held.The description of the property was (121) land 20’ x 60’ Brick house 6 rooms, stable & hay loft at back in the mid 1860s and remained much the same as this throughout the 19th century.Julia Casey died in 1884 and this property was sold.AUCTION THIS DAYAt Three O Clock On the Premises121 Little Lonsdale Street EastCITY PROPERTYExecutor SaleHELLICAR and CONNELL have received instructions from the executor under the will of tho late Mrs Julia Casey to SELL by AUCTION, on tho premises as above (by their auctioneer, John Connell),Brick cottage property, known as 121 Little Lonsdale street east and occupied by Messrs Devine, Smith and Denison, producing a rental of about £60 per annum and having a frontage of 18ft. 7.1/2 in. by a depth of 72ft. to a right of way.Buyers are requested to notice that this being an executor s sale the terms must be short, viz , quarter cash, balance within one monthMany years later and in another development era, the architect GW Vanheems designed a two-level brick factory for a Mrs Ruby & AJ Rundle in 1913, with the intended builder being Stahl Brothers. Ruby A. & J. Rundle were the rated owners for the first municipal listing in 1915, with the occupier as Pam (or Pon) Kee.The factory appears to have been speculative, tapping into the demand for Chinese cabinet manufactories in the street. Occupants included the Chinese cabinet makers, Pon Kee (1915) and Lew Mon (1920) but by the mid 1920s the trend was turning towards other servicing outlets for central city businesses and activities such as retail showcasing, the theatre world and emerging motor-trade.Changes were made in 1929 by Melbourne builder PJ Kent (also named as owner) when the building was used for storage. The drawings that described the proposed works were very basic, freehand pencil on thin paper. The ceilings were to be lined with fibrous plaster and the existing timber façade windows at ground level replaced with metal frames.Mrs E Trenery, show stand manufacturer, started a long tenure there that lasted into the 1950s.GW VanheemsVanheems was well known in Catholic circles as a designer of many church buildings in the early 20th century (such as the convent for the Nuns of the Faithful Companions of Jesus at Benalla and chapel for the Jesuit Fathers in North Richmond) and as the Catholic Federation president in the 1920s. Perhaps his most prominent work was the completion of the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral in the 1930s (Messrs. W. P. Conolly and G. W. Vanheems and others), with variations to the original design by W. W. Wardell. He was elected a Fellow of RVIA in the 1920s.His obituary in 1939 was as followsMr. G. W. Vanheems, a well-known city architect, collapsed and died, apparently from heart trouble, shortly after alighting from a motor-car at his home in (3) Grange road, Alphington, last night.Mr. Vanheems was architect for many public buildings and Roman Catholic churches and schools. One of his most notable designs was the spire on St Ignatius's Church at Richmond. Associated with Mr. W. P. Conolly, he was commissioned to design the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, which have just been completed.He was a son of the late Mr. Henry Vanheems, of Richmond, who was associated with Thomas Gaunt and Co. Mr. Vanheems was adjudicator for many debating competitions..__________________________________________________
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