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August 23, 2013September 27, 2013

Review of Bourke Hill Precinct by City of Melbourne

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Donkey Wheel House (Tramway and Omnibus Building, 1891) looking fantastic after a recent restoration, including the recreation of lost mosaics above.

#JohnDanks, hardware merchants, started 1850s, built this c1915, probably #SydneySmithandOgg (TBC), later taken over by rival #McEwansHardware, another old firm, closed in the 90s. Then an unsuccessful shopping arcade called The Foundry. Not #heritagelisted, overlooked in recent study of this block, but fortunately safe because subdivided into flats ages ago, but it’s also part of a pretty large site (behind and to the right) which is going to be an #officetower, which partly cantilevers over this nice bit of late #EdwardianBaroque. Photo 2 is John Danks decorated for the 1954 #RoyalTour of the young Queen Elizabeth.

#HeritageListed in 2013 - so how did they get a permit to paint the ground floor black ? It’s been nice cream since the 50s when the National Bank converted what had been built as the #AustraliaFelix hotel in #BourkeStreet in 1860. Apparently #McDonalds opened here last year having had their Swanston Street store demolished for the #MelbourneMetro.

You might have though that this low scale streetscape, the west side of swanston from little Bourke to little Lonsdale, was #heritagelisted, but no ! Fortunately the #HoddleGridHerirageReview is going to remedy this situation, listing about 120 buildings in total, including precincts like this one.

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