Original post 13 October 2019 The #elmtrees in #StVincentPlace, #AlbertPark are still bare, so I got some good shots ! When you build a #terracehouse, but you really want a tower too ! Don’t know date or architect but prob 1880s, when there’s wee popular. Interesting that the front door is kind of hidden down … Continue reading St Vincent Place, Albert Park, late winter. →

Original post 15 October 2019 Here’s what I said last time I snapped this one a year ago : #RochesterTerrace, by far the grandest row of terraces ever built in #Melbourne, a row of 10 looking a bit like an elongated #Palladian mansion. Designed by Charles Boykett, who I’ve never heard of, but he did … Continue reading Rochester Terrace, St Vincent Place, 1869 + 1879 →

15 March 2020 This extraordinary elevation is the 1885 competition entry by #WilliamPitt for the proposed Federal Coffee Palace on the corner of Collins & King Streets. It’s a framed watercolour presumably by Pitt, with beautiful details, including the people, flag, etc. But I can see why he didn’t win, I mean it looks like … Continue reading Federal Coffee Palace, gone but certainly not forgotten →

Original post 15 October 2019 The facade of the 1908 #HuddartParker shipping co by #CharlesDEbro at 466 #CollinsStreet has been restored rather well - all the window frames lost at ground level have been reinstated (in #bluestone!), while also swapping the door to the uphill side to achieve level access; the only thing missing is … Continue reading A facade and a rebuilt interior – Huddart Parker, Collins Street →

14 December 2018 Who doesn’t ❤️ the #TramShelters about town ? This one on #StKildaRoad at #CommercialRoad was first built in 1915, designed by #LJFlannagan, for the #PrahranAndMalvernTramswaysTrust, one of the many municipal #ElectricTram systems that added to the Cable Tram system into the suburbs quite rapidly between 1906-1919. A bit surprised to read this  … Continue reading Tram Shelters, St Kilda Road, 1915 →

Original post 13 March 2020: Hard to believe but the part above the cornice of the left section was built in 1997-8! The Commercial Travellers Association hotel and attached offices in #FlindersStreet were completed in 1914, the taller hotel part built in anticipation of the 132ft put in place in 1916, while the office part … Continue reading A hotel for Commercial Travellers, 1913 →

Original post 12 March 2020 Curzon, another plain 1930s block in #EildonRoadStKilda, but unlike the one up the hill, actually does a lot with just a few ideas - the main part is simple streamlined horizontal access balconies, which run into a curved part, following the line of the street, emphasised by the slightly projecting … Continue reading Art Deco curves in St Kilda. →

Original post 11 March 2020 The Queen Street facade here is new ! It’s been recently reconstructed to its 1955 appearance, something @melbourne_heritage_action suggested instead of an ‘interpretive’ version. The building started out as offices in 1872, converted for #FletcherJones in 1955, along with that light and dark colour scheme, then the Queen St facade … Continue reading Fletcher Jones facadism – and facade reconstruction – on Flinders Street →

Original post 10 March 2020 The Belvedere, #UpperEsplanade, #StKilda, if I had the $, maybe ...(though hardly ever for sale). Built 1928, designed by the prolific #WHMerritt, one of Melbs best certainly most prominent examples of what we now call #SpanishMission, via Hollywood. The have or did have or some have amazing bathrooms with the … Continue reading Spanish style on the Upper Esplanade →

Original post 10 March 2020 Not everything built in the 1930s is delightful Art Deco. This is in #GreyStreetStKilda. No detailing whatsoever, just one curve but no streamlining, in fact the rectangular #steelframedwindows with expressed lintels is a bit like a factory. This block might be by #GeorgeJohnston who was known for doing many rather … Continue reading Uninteresting Art Deco →