18 March 2024
In the Bourke Street mall it’s easy to overlook this one – built for Francis & Co chemist in 1913, by my current fave architect Nahum Barnet, who did about 25 commercial buildings in the cbd between 1900 and WW1. Mostly they were in red brick Edwardian, but this one is in a stylised almost Art Nouveau Gothic. In 1927, they moved to a restrained Georgian number in the Paris End of Collins Street, must have done well ! Or possibly had two shops. Photos 2021, old photo of the later premises via fb.
Storey of Melbourne 