Clyde House, Collins Street

30 July 2021

Clyde House, 1915, Collins Street next to the Athenaeum, one of the numerous pre 1960 #tallthinfrontages you find in the CBD- and yet another Edwardian era design by #NahumBarnet, this one all one big bay window, no clear style, with delightful decorations of thistles that are almost Art Nouveau curly (quite out of fashion by then). Built as offices, in the 40s it also included ‘my ladies rest lounge’ with a ‘leg bar and manicure bar’, possibly down the back in an attached wider warehouse. Then in 1998, 4 floors were added to the warehouse to create serviced apartments. Looks a bit cheaply done, the front ones cut the front windows into lounge and bed; some rear ones have nice views west over the town hall. It’s now the Hotel Collins, central and affordable I guess.

Pretty empty right now I guess (photos are from before a recent refurbishment).