323-331 LITTLE COLLINS STREET
323-331 LITTLE COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
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Statement of Significance
This place is included on the Victorian Heritage Inventory, for its potential to contain historical archaeological remains associated with the settlement and growth of early Melbourne. Under the terms of the Heritage Act 2017 there is protection for all historical archaeology sites and objects in the state.
Please visit the Heritage Victoria website to find out more about the Heritage Inventory.
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323-331 LITTLE COLLINS STREET - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site: Date of first documented occupation, 1839Heritage Inventory Description
323-331 LITTLE COLLINS STREET - Heritage Inventory Description
First land sale 1837, Block 12, Allotment 20, John Gardiner. 1839 - possibly a building on site.1877 - two-storey building and one-storey building, Clarke Brokers; McNeil Picture Framers. 1888 - one building only; City of Melbourne Building Society.1905 - four-storey building (three shops).
Heritage Inventory Significance: REGISTER OF THE NATIONAL ESTATE - CITATION: THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING, ON THE CORNER OF ELIZABETH AND LITTLE COLLINS STREETS, WAS ERECTED FOR THE SHORTLIVED CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING SOCIETY IN 1888. MELBOURNE ARCHITECTS ELLERKER AND KILBURN DESIGNED THIS ECLECTICALLY DERIVED BOOM STYLE CLASSICISM STYLED BRICK STRUCTURE OF FOUR STOREYS WITH CEMENT RENDERED FACADE DECORATION AND ELABORATE ROOF FORM OF MANSARD TOWERS, CORNER TURRET AND IRON RAIL CRESTINGS. THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING EPITOMISES THE BUILDING BOOM OF THE 1880S IN MELBOURNE. PROMINENT MELBOURNE CITIZENS FOUNDED THE CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING SOCIETY, THE FIRST CHAIRMAN BEING SIR MATTHEW DAVIES, A NOTORIOUS PROPERTY SPECULATOR AND PARLIAMENTARIAN, FOLLOWED BY ALFRED DEAKIN, LATER PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA. THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOCIETY IN 1893 WAS THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF LAND SPECULATION FOLLIES. THE BUILDING IS A NOTED WORK OF ELLERKER AND KILBURN AND A RARE SURVIVING EXAMPLE OF BOOM STYLE CLASSICISM ARCHITECTURE IN THE HEART OF MELBOURNE. THE GROUND FLOOR LEVEL FACADE HAS BEEN RADICALLY ALTERED. THE FACADE ABOVE STREET AWNING LEVEL IS INTACT ALTHOUGH HEAVILY ENCRUSTED WITH CITY GRIME. THE INTERIOR HAS NOT BEEN INSPECTED. OF STATE SIGNIFICANCE.
Archeological Potential: Potential/Disturbed, Site
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TRADES HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0663
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FORMER ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS TRAINING DEPOTVictorian Heritage Register H0717
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MITRE TAVERNVictorian Heritage Register H0464
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