Penman & Dalziel's warehouse group (part, see Hardware Lane), 4-6 Goldie Place, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Penman & Dalziel's warehouse group (part, see Hardware Lane), 4-6 Goldie Place, Melbourne
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1985
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BIF-CITY 104378
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:Period: VictorianDATE: 1887-1888;ASSOCIATIONS: Penman & Dalziel, furniture makers;DESIGNER: Dunn, Alfred;BUILDER: William Thomas Hosking & Sons.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceHistoryJohn William Dalziel sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1862, joining Penman 17 years later in a furniture making business located in Lonsdale Street West. The firm won recognition at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, held in London during 1886, and completed new premises in Post Office Place in the following year. These five warehouses, two in Goldie Place and three in Hardware Street (back to back) were erected by 1888, replacing Post Office Place as the firm's primary address. The architect was the prolific and gifted church designer, Alfred Dunn, and the builders, William Thomas Hosking & Sons.John Penman Jnr had also commenced a furniture manufactory by c1900 but the original firm had left these premises within the next ten years. Instead, Alex Harrison, saddler; William Riddell and George Walker, book binders; occupied the Hardware Street (formerly Wright's Lane) Stores. In Goldie Alley, Thomas Booth had always been the tenant of number 6 and Screen & Moss, cigar manufacturers appear to have occupied number 4 since the early 1890s. Prior to that J Gregg, a hat maker, may have been there.By c1920 the Hilton Press were in the Goldie Place frontage, furthering the gradual change in the area from sale of hardware and related products, to occupation by the printing industry. After the next ten years, Murray & Williams and Thomas Cook sold saddlery and leather goods from amongst the bookbinders in Hardware Street and, in Goldie Lane, the Tytherleigh Press continued occupation of number six and P E Hambly, printer, was in four.DescriptionErected in a traditional, medieval character, gabled and parapeted form, these stores express their age by the wall materials chosen (brick) rather than any other aspect. Symmetrical arched openings, two windows each side of a landing door, with presumed cathead above, comprise the fenestration with the only ornamentation being arch keystones, architrave and impost mouldings and the label mould following the parapet.External IntegritySurprisingly externally complete in Goldie Place, except for painting of the brickwork, but in Hardware Street most openings have been rebuilt and the facade stuccoed: only the shaped parapet on 55 indicates the connection with the Goldie Place stores, the parapet on number 57 having been part removed. Number 51-3 Hardware Street has been defaced and now possesses only a similar scale.StreetscapeBoth groups are sited in a narrow, formerly confined lane, (Goldie Place now exposed on one side by redevelopment), the building type and form suits its location but, in Goldie Place, relates only vaguely with the 1920s warehouses and factories nearby. However, in Hardware Street where the altered buildings of the group exist, the adjoining warehouse row to the north is both similar and notable and provides an indication of their original form.SignificanceThe Goldie Place buildings are exceptionally externally complete warehouses which epitomize the growth of secondary industry in this part of the C.A.D. during the late 19th Century. However those in Hardware Street are indicative only of the former group and provide some streetscape support for the notable warehouse row to the north..GRAEME BUTLER & ASSOCIATES 2011, CENTRAL CITY (HODDLE GRID) HERITAGE REVIEWStatement of SignificanceWhat is significant?John William Dalziel sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1892, joining Penman 17 years later in a furniture making business located in Lonsdale Street West. The firm won recognition at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition, held in London during 1886, and completed new premises in Post Office Place in the following year.These five warehouses, two in Goldie Alley (later Goldie Place) and three in Hardware Street (back to back) were erected by 1888, replacing Post Office Place as the firm's primary address. The architect was the prolific and gifted church designer, Alfred Dunn, and the builders, William Thomas Hosking & Sons. Dunn had designed the highly significant Commercial Bank of Australia (Dome & Chamber) 335-339 Collins Street in 1891-93.Penman & Dalziel were hit by the Great Depression of the 1890s, declaring bankruptcy in the late 1890s, but the firm continued on to maintain its reputation as claimed by one source as among the Colony's best furniture makers. John Penman Jnr had also joined Dalziel's furniture manufactory by the 1900s but the original firm had left the Goldie Place premises within the next ten years.Instead of Penman & Dalziel, Alex Harrison, saddler; William Riddell and George Walker, book binders occupied the Hardware Street (formerly Wright's Lane) Stores. In Goldie Alley and near Thomas Power's saddlery and ironmongery at 400 Lt Bourke Street, Thomas Booth was the long-term tenant of number 6 Goldie Place and Screen & Moss, cigar manufacturers appear to have occupied number 4 Goldie Place since the early 1890's. The warehouses complemented the vast Kirks Horse Bazaar that extended from Bourke St through to Little Bourke, generating a number of associated small businesses nearby such as saddlers and ironmongers.By c1915 the Hilton Press were at Goldie Place, marking the change from hardware and related products in the area to occupation by the printing industry. After the next ten years, Murray & Williams and Thomas Cook sold saddlery and leather goods among the bookbinders in Hardware Street and, in Goldie Place, the Tytherleigh Press continued occupation of 6 Goldie Place and P E Hambly, printer, was in 4.Provided with parapeted and gabled facades in the traditional, medieval-based style used for Victorian-era warehouses , these factory-warehouses or stores express their use and age by the wall materials chosen (red and cream brick and basalt). Symmetrically placed arched openings, two windows each side of landing doors, with presumed cathead above the upper-level door openings, comprise the fenestration with ornamentation in the form of cream brick banding or terracotta mouldings. Chunky arch keystones and wide architraves are joined by impost bands and mouldings and the cornice mould that follows the parapet edge. Openings vary from rectangular, arched to basket-arched, offering a textural variation of light and shade in combination with the rusticity of the wall materials. Timber joinery is near complete which is rare for this building type within the State. The buildings are particularly well preserved.How is it significant?Penman & Dalziel's Warehouses are significant historically and aesthetically to the Melbourne Capital City ZoneWhy is it significant?Penman & Dalziel's Warehouses are significant historically because the Goldie Place buildings are exceptionally externally complete and epitomise well the growth of small secondary industry along lanes within this part of the Capital City Zone during the late 19th century. Aesthetically, these warehouses are highly distinctive as excellent examples of the Victorian-era warehouse typology, evoking the utilitarian function by use of face brick but in a way and architectural form that adds functional ornament and texture to the façade in the combination of stone and brickwork placement.The companion Hardware Street warehouses, backing onto this pair, have been altered and are indicative only of the former group but provide some streetscape support for the notable warehouse row to the north..GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM.Mahlstedt Fire Insurance Plan Series:Plan 13Mahlstedt 1910-1940s Plan 13: shows as 3 storey pair in unnamed lane, backs onto Wrights Lane later Hardware Lane: (6) occupier `Screens & Matts, Cigar makers'Mahlstedt 1888: Plan 13: (6) T Booth saddler, (4) part of 3 storey Lt Bourke st complex TB Power wholesale saddler(three 3-storey stores in Wrights lane- area dominated by saddlers and horse bazaars such as Kirk's)Mahlstedt 1948: 2 masonry two-storey buildings plus basement, `no FP Floors' Gal Iron roof, backs onto 51-61 Hardware Street with conveyors marked between?.CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS1887, 2845, see Graeme Butler folder for details.eMelbounre web sitehttps://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM01816b.htmGoldie Place is located between Queen and Elizabeth streets, extending north from Little Bourke Street to Lonsdale Street. Formerly known as Goldie Alley, the name was changed post-1915. In 1860, Goldie Place was the site of James Liddy's coach building business. It was also home to several buildings dating to 1888, which are now listed on the Victorian Heritage Inventory. These buildings were predominantly used for commercial purposes, whilst a retail and wholesale shop was located at number 14-16.ALEXANDRA GERNERREFERENCES'4-10 Goldie Place, (H7822-1252, H7822-1255, H7822-1253, H7822-1254)', in Victorian Heritage Register On-Line, 2000, http://www.doi.vic.gov.au/doi/hvolr.nsf..City of Melbourne i-Heritage:Central Activities District Conservation Study - Graeme Butler, 1984 Building Identification Form (BIF): :Description/Notable Features Notable features include loading doors which appear near original Alterations / Recommendations: New signs (sympathetic), painted bricks. Stone (inappropriate - remove by approved method [note, sympathetic colour now])..Inspection 2010:see 51-53 Hardware St as backing onto this pair also for Penman & Dalziel - 51 has date `P&D 1887' (53 has been defaced).VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY4-6 GOLDIE PL, MelbourneHeritage Inventory (HR) H7822-1252`1888 - 3 storey building, Saddler1905 - 3 storey building, Screen & Moss, Cigar Makers.Archaeological Potential: Potential/Disturbed51-53 HARDWARE STREETMELBOURNE, Melbourne CityHeritage Inventory (HI) Number: H7822-1256Heritage Inventory Description1839 map - buildings on Lot 16 appear to be along Hardware Street.1880 Panorama shows buildings along Hardware St 1887 - warehouse erected for Dalziel & Penman (furniture makers)1888 - 3 storey building, Lancaster Grease Co.1905 - 3 storey building.NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)`The Argus':9 September 1890: 6SHIPPING DIFFICULTYCOAL FOR THE RAILWAYS.THE GOVERNMENT TAKE THEMATTER IN HAND.INDIAN COAL FOR MELBOURNE….The principal interest In regard to the strike will tor the next few days be centred in Sydney, where the general conference of employers is to be held, but one or two facts of prime importance have to be recorded….'The work of organisation among the employers is progressing steadily. A meeting of furniture manufacturer was held last night, at which there was a large attendance, ... fifty employers being present. It was unanimously* resolved, on the motion of Mr. Coben (Coben Brothers), seconded by Mr. Fallshaw (Fallshaw Brothers), that the employers should form themselves into a body, to be called the United Furniture Trades Association, and n committee was formed, consisting of Messrs. J. P. Levi, Chuscen, Fallshaw, Gibson (Foy and Gibson), Hartwell, Bell ( Richmond), and Dalziel (Penman and Dalziel), It was decided that all the members of the association should be proposed as members of the Employers' Union.Tuesday 7 January 1896NEW INSOLVENTS.Penman and Dalziel, of Wright's lane, Melbourne, furniture manufacturers. Cause of insolvency -being called upon by the City of Melbourne Bank to pay off all overdraft Liabilities, £9804 Os. 10d.; assets, £14,200 ; estimated surplus, £4,183 19s, 2d, RE .Jacomb, assignee.Saturday 20 August 1904(Auction)MAGNIFICENT ART FURNITUREMade by SVENSSQN and PENMAN and DALZIELL Melbourne's Leading Cabinetmakers, Beautiful W ALNUT BEDROOM SUITE6ft wardrobe Duchesse Pair, with Side Swing Mirrors, Commode, Two Chairs and Towel RailSolid 6ft 6ln WALNUT SIDEBOARDWith Long Bevelled Mirror Back, and FinelyCarvedGRAND 10ft SOLID WALNUT EXTENSIONDINING TABLEThe Above All Made by Svensson…Splendid Carved Walnut Dining Suite of NinePieces in the Best Morocco LeatherELEGANT WALNUT LADYS WRITING TABLEPRETTY WALNUT OCCASION AL TABLEJapanese PatternSolid Walnut REVOLVING BOOKCASEVery Neat SOLID WALNUT HAL LSTAND anTwo Chairs to MatchThe Above All Made by Penman and Dalziell.Sutherland, Victoria & Its Metropolis: V2: 597 Wm John Dalziel biog..DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL1893 Goldie Alley (off 400 Lt Bourke st Thomas Power saddler, ironmger)Carpenter, Samuel farrierWragge, vet surgeonNicholls, R vet surgeonvacant(Wrights lane- Penman & Dalziel6 Beaupin, L., & Co, importers hairdressers' sundries7 Vacant8 Penman & Dalziel, furniture manufacturers3 Harry, E. C., & Co, saddlers' ironmongersLittle Bourke st)1900 Goldie Alley (off 400 Lt Bourke st Thomas Power saddler, ironmger)(Eyton/Gutheridge)4 Screen & Moss cigar importers and manuf.Booth, Thomas saddle manufctsWillis & Co, locksmith and safe manuf.(Wrights lane1 Penman & Dalziel, furniture manufacturers3 Harry, E. C., & Co, saddlers' ironmongers, etc)1905 Goldie Alley (off 400 Lt Bourke st)(Hawkins/Barry)- Kozequilt Manufacturing Ltd. quilt manufacturers4 Screen & Moss cigar importers and manuf..1910 Goldie Alley- Orford & Orford clothing manufacts.6 Screen & Moss cigar importers and manuf..1915 Goldie Alley- Hilton Press printers6 Screen & Moss cigar importers and manuf..1920 Goldie Alley4 Hilton Press printers6 Tytherleigh, George printerWright, Richard farrier19244 Gillman, Abraham cloth manuf.4 White, Joseph knitting factory6 Tytherleigh, George printer6 Pierce, Alfred S newspaper linotyper
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