Wood's warehouse also part Zander's Bonded and Free Stores , 26-32 King Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Wood's warehouse also part Zander's Bonded and Free Stores , 26-32 King Street, Melbourne
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:__________________________________________________Period: EdwardianConstruction date: 1911Architect: J. G. Beaver.CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWStatement of SignificanceWhat is significant?26-32 King Street, Melbourne, a four-storey warehouse building built in 1911 with the principal elevation refaced in c1923.• Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include (but are not limited to):• The 1911 built form and scale;• The original pattern of fenestration and c1923 decorative elements;• The external wall surfaces of painted cement render; and• The early multi-pane steel framed windows (c1923) to the upper floors.Later alterations made to the street level facades are not significant.How it is significant?26-32 King Street, Melbourne, is of local historic and representative significance to the City of Melbourne.Why it is significant?The warehouse at 26-32 King Street is historically significant as surviving evidence of warehousing in this part of the city of Melbourne. Located near Melbourne's early transport infrastructure, the first port and Spencer Street Railway Station (opened 1859), it was built to service Melbourne’s trading port. From 1877 until c1950s, Zander’s Bonded Stores was located on this site; the current five-storey building (built 1911, refaced in c1923), was known as Zander’s Bonded Stores No 4 and No 5, and replaced the earlier Zander’s two-storey warehouse that existed on the site. 26-32 King Street was part of an extensive store complex owned by produce merchant and wholesale shipper, Patrick John Doyle. Used for storage from 1911 to the 1950s, the building remains as evidence of the importance of warehousing in this part of the city, which was integral to the economic activity of the original port that continued into the 1950s. (Criterion A)26-32 King Street is significant as a substantially intact example of the wave of warehouse development in the western port area of Melbourne during the late Edwardian and early interwar period that replaced the low scale masonry warehouses of the nineteenth century. The more substantial warehouses from the early interwar period of development commonly utilised the interwar Chicagoesque style. The King Street façade (refaced in c1923) which features a strong vertical emphasis from projecting pilasters with large windows separated by recessed spandrels at each floor), is an intact and representative example of this Chicagoesque stylistic tendency. (Criterion D)Primary sourceHoddle Grid Heritage Review (Context & GJM Heritage, 2020).GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM cites CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS 2708.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 71709 Beaver, J G; Wood, Charles Melbourne VIC Warehouses Langford, Clement - 275 Bridge Rd Richmond 1911 06 27 2708-MCC registration no 2708 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.10.0warehouse, King near cnr King & Flinders Lane.VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORY H7822-1858Third land sale 1838, Block 2, Allotment 20, JH Wedge. 1850 - building on site. 1855 - part of Foundry Hotel. 1877 -three two-storey buildings; Richmond & Zanders No.4 Bond store. 1888 - same; Milne & Co, Produce & Commissioning Agents; Zanders Bond Stores. 1905 - same; M Evans Agent; Zanders Nos.2 and 5 Bonded store..VICTORIAN TITLES OFFICE Vol. 7957 Folio 153.CONTEXT (WITH GJM HERITAGE) 2020, HODDLE GRID HERITAGE REVIEWHO1338Warehouse 26-32 King Street (1911)· Historically significant as a warehouse built near Spencer Street Railway Station to service Melbourne’s trading port.· Significant as representative of an interwar Chicagoesque style warehouse in the port area of Melbourne, which replaced the low scale 19th century masonry warehousesSITE HISTORYThe land comprising 26-32 King Street, Melbourne was first purchased by J H Wedge during the third land sale of 1838 as part of Block 2, Crown Allotment 20 (Fels, Lavel and Mider 1993, Inventory no 858). The area surrounding the subject site was known as the ‘Seagate to the city’ due to the prevalence of shipping and merchandising industries that operated there into the 1950s (Age 10 December 1953:10). By 1877 two two-storey buildings had been constructed on the subject site. (Fels, Lavel and Mider 1993, Inventory no 858). By 1888 these were known as Zander’s Bonded Stores No 4 and No 5 (see Figure 1)A pair of four-storey bond stores (26-28 and 30-32 King Street), was constructed in 1911 for the then proprietor of the Zander’s complex, Patrick J Doyle, produce merchant and wholesale shipper, by a builder named Quilty of 177 Mcllwriath Street, Carlton (Age 8 May 1911:12; Herald 12 November 1912:5; RB 1912; Table Talk 10 December 1903:5; MCC registration no 2559, as cited in AAI, record no 71710). Replacing the earlier two two-storey Zander’s bond stores, the new warehouses continued to be known as Zander’s Bonded Stores No 4 and No 5 (Mahlstedt Map, section 1, no 21, 1925; S&Mc 1930). The subject building was described in 1913 as a ‘complete and modern storage building’ (Herald 20 February 1913:3).Major upgrade works occurred to the premises in 1923, as demonstrated by an increased Net Annual Value between 1922 and 1924. This may have involved the refacing of the principal King Street elevation (RB 1922, 1924).J C Zander commenced his warehousing business in La Trobe Street in 1852. Cecilia Zander inherited her husband’s business in 1858, expanding the enterprise to a point where she was able to purchase a site in King Street from the bank in 1867 and build a new warehouse, No 3 Store in 1873. By 1887 she owned storage capacity equal to 21,000 tons of merchandise. Cecilia Zander leased the warehouse out in the mid-1890s (Butler 1995).At the time of Cecilia Zander’s death in 1896, Zander’s Bonded Stores had grown to a complex that occupied most of the northern half of the block between Highlander Lane and King Street. The complex comprised six substantial warehouses numbered one to six in order of occupancy (Mahlstedt Map no 2, 1910; Figure 2) and a strip of yard (now occupied by 11A Highlander Lane).Other former Zander’s Bonded Stores are still extant at 22-24 King Street (HO670), and 11A and 11 Highlander Lane (both recommended as individually significant as part of this Review) (see Figure 2). All Zander’s buildings in this complex were serviced at the rear by either Highlander or Stubbs Lane. By c1890 the subject site was numbered 26-32 King Street (S&Mc 1890).A 1903 sale notice for the warehouses advertised a ‘very valuable, centrally situated, well-known, and old-established business premises, known as Zander’s Bonded Warehouse’ at 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 King Street. Patrick John Doyle became the new owner-occupier of the entire Zander complex, purchasing the property for £23,500 as an investment in 1903, soon after buying another major store, Coles Bonded Stores in Flinders Street (Table Talk 10 December 1903:5). Openings were created to the internal party wall by the 1920s, and enlarged during the 1950s, subsequently merging the two warehouses into one building (see Figure 3) (MBAI; Mahlstedt Map section 1, no 21, 1925 & 1948, amended 1960s).Internal and external works, carried out to the subject building from c1932, have changed its appearance and, internally, reflect a change in the building’s use.Birt Elder Pty Ltd, shipping agents, owned the building in 1952 and was responsible for the refurbishments and alterations carried out that year (PROV VPRS 11200/0007 unit 683, item T9; Argus 17 April 1948:11). Architects A C Leith Bartlett & Partners carried out substantial alterations and additions in 1952 and 1954 (MBAI). These alterations involved the internal refurbishment of the building and the construction of new concrete and brickwork at the ground level King Street frontage (PROV VPRS 11200/0007 unit 683, item T9). As demonstrated in Figure 4 and Figure 5, the King Street façade retained its original pattern of fenestration and windows above ground level during these works (ground level openings are obscured in Figure 5). These shopfronts have since been altered Between 1956-1957 the building sold for £105,100 (Age 27 February 1957:6). Following the sale, the building housed a range of occupants, mostly in the field of professional services, including Alliance Assurance Co Ltd; A C Burchill and Sons, tax consultants; H S Ungamells & Co, manufacturers agents; and CW Candy, civil engineer (S&Mc 1955). Advertisements from 1956 describe 26-32 King Street as being a modern office building (Argus 24 November 1956:8; MBAI). Internal partitions were subsequently erected on the ground and second floors following the building’s sale in 1957 (MBAI).By 1970 F E Michaelson was the only registered occupant at 26-32 King Street and, in 1974, the Sands & McDougall directory records the eastern side of King Street, extending from numbers 10-32, as ‘development’ (S&Mc 1970, 1974). In 1980 the building was advertised for sale as a partly tenanted, immaculately maintained city building (Age 9 February 1980:29).New glazing was installed in 1986 (MBAI). In 1988 the building permit details that the building changed in use from an office building to a shop or other building for the sale of retail goods or supply of services direct to the public (MBAI).In 1965 Melbourne City Council announced that the western end of Flinders Lane would be widened to become part of a two-way street (Age 10 June 1965:6). The project was expected to cost £1 million and be carried out over three years. The building adjacent to the subject site, on the northern boundary, was demolished during this time and its allotment truncated as part of the lane expansion (see Figure 4 and Figure 5). Due to the removal of this adjacent building, the northern elevation of the subject property 26-32 King Street was exposed.capacity equal to 21,000 tons of merchandise. At the time of Cecilia Zander’s death in 1896, Zander’s Bonded Stores had grown to a complex that occupied most of the northern half of the block between Highlander Lane and King Street. The complex comprised six substantial warehouses numbered one to six in order of occupancy and a strip of yard (now 11A Highlander Lane) (Mahlstedt Map no 2, 1910).John Ramsey Corteen was the proprietor of Zanders’ Bonded Stores from 1904 to c1930, leasing the properties from Doyle (S&Mc 1904, 1930; CT:V2966 F108). By 1935, the Zander’s buildings became known as Doyle’s Free Stores, until c1945 (S&Mc 1935, 1945). By the early 1950s Doyle had also acquired the adjacent building and leased both buildings out to a range of tenants. In 1950, Doyle’s Free Stores occupied 22-24 King Street, and 26-28 King Street had the following occupants: Doyle & McCarthy Pty Ltd produce merchants; E F Doyle accountant; and Burbank Cheese Pty Ltd, cheese merchants. The occupants for 30-32 were D Lavery, export agent; and E C Marsh, dairy produce merchants (S&McConville, 2021: 1950).REFERENCESAge, as cited.Argus, as cited.Australian Architectural Index (AAI), as cited. 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Section 1, Mahlstedt Pty Ltd.Mahlstedt’s Pty Ltd 1948 City of Melbourne detail fire survey. Section 1, Mahlstedt Pty Ltd, Melbourne.Marsden, Susan 2000, Urban Heritage: the rise and postwar development of Australia’s capital city centres, Australian Council of National Trusts and Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra.Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) Detail Plan, as cited, State Library Victoria.Pratt, Charles Daniel c1950, ‘Aerial view of Melbourne looking north east, Victoria’, State Library Victoria (SLV) John Etkins collection: H2016.33/20, accessed online 26 February 2019.Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), Building Application Plans, PROV VPRS 11200/0007 unit 683, item T9.Sands & McDougall (S&Mc), Melbourne and Suburban Directories, as cited.Table Talk, as cited.
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