Author: Rohan Storey
Original post 16 April 2020 A nice #ArtDecoFactory in #BerkeleyStreet, #SouthCarlton. It was built for #REPCO in 1938, and the architect was FA Bell. This area was by the 30s a bit of a car area, with Melford Motors and various suppliers; this was REPCO’s warehouse for their spare parts business. It looks a bit … Continue reading REPCO, South Carlton and Richmond, 1938
Original post 10 October 2019 The Pacific, and next door the Atlantic and the Orion, on the pointy corner of Grey & Barkly, #StKilda, built 1934-5, and all by #BernardEvans - doing something that looks a bit like #IGAnderson, who did an unbuilt design for this corner, possibly in his Spanish/Gothic/Deco as seen on the … Continue reading Atlantic, Pacific and Orion, St Kilda,1934-5
Original post 16 April 2020 ☹️😢 Shocked, disappointed, angry…..the owners of the 1929 #BurnleyTheatre in Sean Street Richmond were so scared of being #heritagelisted that they’ve just destroyed the interior - another great theatre down, just like the Palace. I heard a member of the family that owns it speak at the @cityofyarra council meeting, … Continue reading Deliberate destruction.
14 April 2020 Photos Sept 2019 The Athenaeum Club in Collins Street was built in 1929 and designed by architect Cedric Ballantyne (busy with the Regent Theatre at the same time). I think his eclectic composition of Georgian/American Beaux Arts also referred to the Victorian architecture around it at the time, for instance the detail … Continue reading Athenaeum Club, Collins Street, 1929
Original post 13 April 2020 Repost 2020: Just mad - both the building, next to the Town Hall, and that it was demolished in 1968 - by the #MelbourneCityCouncil. It was built in 1888-89 as the HQ of the rapidly expanding #TemperanceAndGeneral Mutual Life Assurance, and the architect was #AlfredDunn. He really went to town … Continue reading Lost Melbourne- T&G Building, Swanston Street, 1889.
Original post 11 April 2020 The #RaymondPriestly Building at #MelbourneUniversity was plonked I mean placed right in the middle of the campus in 1967-70, and designed by Douglas Alexandra and #RayBerg in association with the Uni’s architect #RaeFeatherstone for the University administration. It’s got a base, middle and top, and a pattern of sunshade/balconies, and … Continue reading Raymond Priestly building, Melb Uni, 1970
Original post 10 April 2020 In 2011 I worked on the Lost! app for the @nationaltrustvic, 100 places in the #MelbCBD dem since the 50s - it’s now inactive, but I’ve got sooo many photos, here’s a few of the smaller lesser known ones; Regency style house, 1850s, William Street Nth West cnr Little Lon, … Continue reading Lost Melbourne, CBD
Original post 10 April 2020 Rearing up in the middle of the otherwise low scale suburban #RobeStreetStKilda is this idiosyncratic pile. It was created in c1920 by rebuilding the Star & Garter Hotel, which was delicensed in 1919; the conversion was designed by AV Gillespie. The hotel was originally a three storey 5 bay thing … Continue reading Windsor Court, Robe Street, a converted pub.
Original post 9 April 2020 When I first saw a photo of this I was like OMG what a feast ! Delicious ! It seems like most of the really OTT #highvictorian things were lost on the 1950s-60s, and this was right up there ! The #PemierPermanent Building Society, on #CollinsStreet south side just down … Continue reading Premier Permanent, Collins Street, 1887, not so permanent.
Original post 6 April 2020 Photo 11 March This curious tower thing at #MelbourneUniversity is a remnant of an even more curious c1875 octagonal #greenhouse, which was the centrepoint of the #systemgarden, laid out in 1856; a system garden is essentially a botanical sampler. It was originally about 7.5 hectares, only 2 are left now, … Continue reading System Garden, Melbourne University
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 