Green's Buildings
337 Barkly Street, FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 - Property No 2005029800
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Statement of Significance
Green's Buildings are locally historically, architecturally and socially significant, within the City context:
- as a distinctive architectural landmark on a prominent site, made so by the domed comer bandstand (Criterion B2);
- for its association with the Green family who were well known in the Footscray area during the early 20th century and remembered today in the Green Fountain (Criterion HI); and
- as a dance hall, it has been a venue for social events in the locality (Criterion A4, G1).
Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) criteria
The Australian Heritage Commission criteria consist of a set of eight criteria which cover social, aesthetic, scientific, and historic values. Each criterion has sub-criteria written specifically for cultural or natural values. The relevant criteria are:
B.2 rarity
H.1 association with important person or group
A.4 demonstrates well the course and pattern of history, important historic events
G.1 social importance to the community
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Green's Buildings - Physical Description 1
This comer landmark building is a two storey; brick clad and has a distinctive domed balcony or band stand at the splayed comer entry - in use when the building served as a dance hall. This comer cupola element has a tall turned timber finial, turned posts and a balustrade rail devoid of balusters, plus a clock set in a scrolled timber fascia. Its sheet clad base extends around both elevations as the fascia for the cantilevering street canopy extending over the shopfronts (all of the Barkly Street elevation and half of the Geelong Road elevation). The fascia below the band stand also has the words 'Green's Buildings' faintly discernable under paint layers.
The main hipped roof (set out in two bays) is clad with corrugated iron and the upper level fenestration (double-hung sash windows) is regularly spaced between piers, taking up a small percentage of the wall area facing Geelong Road and in the old section of the Barkly Street elevation. However, the later section of this elevation has large window openings that fill the wall bay between pilasters. A string mould demarcates the parapet area from the main upper wall and hold the building name 'Green's Buildings' facing Barkly Street.
The floor to ceiling glass shopfronts along both elevations have replaced those of the Edwardian-era versions but elements, such as the marble mosaic threshold that spells out the name 'Imperial Art Palace' and the Edwardian-era pressed Art Metal ceilings within, show the main development periods. The parapet has been modified or modernised in the 1920s from its ornate Edwardian-era form but otherwise this earlier section is clearly discernable from the other wings. The Geelong Road elevation continues as a simple utilitarian brick facade that returns up a side lane into loading areas.Green's Buildings - Physical Conditions
Externally good (partially disturbed, well preserved)
Green's Buildings - Integrity
Externally substantially intact/some intrusions, given the distinct development phases, with new shopfronts and roller shutters added and the bricks painted over.
Green's Buildings - Historical Australian Themes
Thematic context
Australian Principal Theme: Developing local, regional and national economies
PART Subtheme: Marketing & retailing
Local Theme(s): Providing shops and retail facilitiesGreen's Buildings - Physical Description 2
Map (Melway) 42B4
Heritage Significance: City
Creation date(s): 1913-14,1921
Boundary description The building and title land with emphasis on fabric from its main construction
period, c1914-30.
Local Government Area: City of Maribyrnong
Ownership: PrivateHeritage Study and Grading
Maribyrnong - Maribyrnong Heritage Review
Author: Jill Barnard, Graeme Butler, Francine Gilfedder & Gary Vines
Year: 2000
Grading:
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FORMER BARKLY THEATREVictorian Heritage Register H0878
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FOOTSCRAY RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1563
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