Strachan, Murray and Shannon Woolstore (facades only)
95 Malop Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 311738
Woolstores Industrial Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Strachan, Murray, Shannon and Company wool stores stand at the corner of Moorabool Street Brougham Street, Geelong, on the site upon which pioneer merchant James Ford Strachan constructed his first bonded store in 1840, the first stone building in Geelong. Systematically developed as the wool industry expanded, this four storey brick complex is stylistically unified from the 1889 section onwards to present an impressive austere Classical Revival structure of great streetscape and precinctual impact. The Company premises have been associated with the wool industry since 1840. The interior spaces are traditionally designed and the construction system typical of the period.
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register
Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate
REFERENCES
Aitken, Richard - "Edwardian Geelong : An Architectural Introduction", Deaking University, Geelong - pp 70-71.
Selenitsch, Alex - "Geelong Woolstores" History of Australian Architecture, School of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1967: includes detailed history and illustrations, pp. 19-21.
Strachan, G. L. - The History of Strachan and Company Limited, 1965, pp. 11-14.
Vidler, E. A. - The Book of Geelong, Franks and Co., Geelong, 1897.
n.a. Geelong Past and Present, Franks & Co., Geelong - 1891.
Strachan, H, M, - Some Notes and Recollections, Melbourne 1927.
Geelong Historical Records Centre, photograph 1877.
Brown, P. L. - James Ford Strachan (1810-1875) in Pike, Douglas (ed) Australian Dictionary of Biography M.V.P., Melbourne, 1967, p492.
The development of the Strachan and Co. site from 1840-1925 is exhaustively treated in Selenitsch's "Geelong Woolstores" with illustrations of various stages of construction clearly illustrated in Figs. 45-51. (Source of all illustrations is noted).
Only the facade survives intact in 1986.
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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