Original post 25 February 2021:
The earliest part of #BuckleyAndNunn (since 1988 David Jones) was built in two stages, 1911-12, which architects Bates, Peebles & Smart just doubled up, but then why not ? Looks fine, and a relative rare for Melbourne example of #EdwardianBaroque, with those interesting blocky columns, and some delightful mosaic work. In March 1933 they decided to expand by adding two floors to one half only, by the sage architects, now Bates Smart McCutcheon, where they removed the cornice, but kept to a restrained style. Then in August 1933 they announced an extension to the side, replacing Wertheims store, and went all modernistic. My photos from 2018, early photo from @heraldsunphoto_retro prob from 1912), sketch of addition from ‘Bates Smart 150 years’, and the long view is a postcard from the @library_vic
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Hi Rohan my memory is that Buckley & Nunn closed in 1982 and there was a brief period of stripping out and it reopened as Devid Jones the same year
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They stripped out the ground floor then, but there were lots of elaborate plaster ceilings on the upper floors, lost in the last renovations (with a permit from HV).
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