Fitzroy history – the doomed art deco warehouse
Update 3 December 2009: according to Melbourne Heritage Watch, this building was demolished yesterday…
According to the Art Deco society, this building began as the engine house for the cable tram that ran up Brunswick St and St George’s Rd from Victoria Parade to Holden St from the 1886 until its final trip in 1930. It received a moderne makeover in 1936 when it was converted into a wine warehouse. A nomination to protect the building by adding it to the Victorian Heritage Register was rejected and it seems likely to be demolished and replaced with a multistorey building.
Courtesy of SLV / ID: jc006867 / photographer: John T Collins / copyright: used under the fair dealings provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 / c1975
Victorian Heritage Register
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
*gasp*
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
How dare they?!
We are losing too much of our history and heritage through damn developers and govt ministers with poor taste, poor judgment and piss poor ability to listen to the public.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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December 5th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hi Brian
Your update beat me to it – I was on that corner yesterday and the back of this building has been demolished, though it did look like the front was still intact.
I hope the facade is kept, it has such lovely art deco features – though I recognise ‘modern’ developments don’t always work that way.
I’m glad you took a photograph of this (this series of old and new is wonderful!), as I’m sure a photograph from the same place in a year or two will be completely different.
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December 8th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
[...] was built as a cable car engine house. I remember it as a bicycle shop. In recent, unoccupied years it became charmingly decrepit, [...]
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December 9th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Ohh that sucks :( I walk past that building most days to and/or from work, and yes it is a big construction site now. Boo :(
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