Central City (Hoddle Grid) Heritage Review 2011 Collie, R & Co warehouse, 194-196 Little Lonsdale Victorian Cricket Association Building (VCA), 76-80 Street, Melbourne 3000 ........................................... 453 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000..............................285 Cavanagh's or Tucker & Co's warehouse, 198-200 Schuhkraft & Co warehouse, later YMCA, and AHA Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000 ................... 459 House, 130-132 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000....292 Women's Venereal Disease Clinic, 372-378 Little Cobden Buildings, later Mercantile & Mutual Chambers Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000............................ 466 and Fletcher Jones building, 360-372 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000 .......................................................298 Cleve's Bonded Store, later Heymason's Free Stores, 523-525 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000 ..... 473 Waterside Hotel, 508-510 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000 .........................................................................308 Blessed Sacrament Fathers Monastery, St Francis, 326 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000............................ 479 Coffee Tavern (No. 2), 516-518 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000 .......................................................315 Michaelis Hallenstein & Co building, 439-445 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000 ........................................... 485 Savings Bank of Victoria Flinders Street branch, former, 520-522 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000....322 Watson's warehouse, later 3LO and 3AR studios, 3AW Radio Theatre, and Kelvin Club, 14-30 Melbourne Prince of Wales Hotel, later Markillie's Hotel, 562-564 Place, Melbourne 3000............................................ 493 Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000..............................329 Yorkshire House, 20-26 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000 Cyclone Woven Wire Fence Co. factory, 63-67 Franklin ................................................................................. 493 Street, Melbourne 3000............................................335 Provident Life Building, 37-41 Queen Street, Melbourne Keep Brothers & Wood workshop and showroom, later 3000......................................................................... 510 Stramit Building, 96-102 Franklin Street, Melbourne 3000 .........................................................................343 Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (R.A.C.V.) Building, former, 111-129 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000 ..... 517 Penman & Dalziel's warehouse group, part, 4-6 Goldie Place, Melbourne 3000 ............................................350 Australasian Catholic Assurance (ACA) Building, 118- 126 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000......................... 524 Throstle's stores, 106-112 Hardware Street, Melbourne 3000 .........................................................................357 Clarke's Shops & Dwellings, 203-205 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000....................................................... 532 Barrow Brothers warehouse, 12-20 King Street, Melbourne 3000 .......................................................363 Grant's factory-warehouse, 217-219 Queen Street, Melbourne 3000....................................................... 538 Union Bond Melbourne Storage Company Ltd, 115-129 King Street, Melbourne 3000 ...................................370 Royal Bank of Australia Ltd, later English Scottish & Australian Bank Ltd., 42-44 Russell Street, Melbourne Peoples Palace, 131-135 King Street, Melbourne 3000 3000......................................................................... 544 .................................................................................376 Union Hotel, later Tattersalls Hotel, 288-294 Russell Argus Building, former, 284-294 La Trobe Street, Street, Melbourne 3000 ........................................... 550 Melbourne 3000 .......................................................382 Sir Charles Hotham Hotel, 2-8 Spencer Street, Russell's building, 361-363 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000....................................................... 556 Melbourne 3000 .......................................................390 McCaughan's Coffee Palace, later Great Southern Marks' warehouse, 362-364 Little Bourke Street, Private Hotel, 10-22 Spencer Street, Melbourne 3000 Melbourne 3000 .......................................................398 ................................................................................. 564 Warburton's shops & warehouses, 365-367 Little Batman's Hill Hotel, 66-70 Spencer Street, Melbourne Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000 ...............................403 3000......................................................................... 570 Drayton House, 373-375 Little Bourke Street, Hotel Alexander, later Savoy Plaza Hotel, 122-132 Melbourne 3000 .......................................................410 Spencer Street, Melbourne 3000 ............................. 576 City West Telephone Exchange, 434-436 Little Bourke Elms Family Hotel, 267-271 Spring Street, Melbourne Street, Melbourne 3000............................................415 3000......................................................................... 583 Bayne's shops and residences, later Little Reata Cann's Pty. Ltd. building, 135-137 Swanston Street, restaurant, 68-70 Little Collins Street, Melbourne 3000 Melbourne 3000....................................................... 589 .................................................................................424 Swanston House, Ezywalkin Boot shoe and Slipper Briscoe & Co warehouse, later EL Yencken & Co Pty. Store, 163-165 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000 .. 595 Ltd., 392-396 Little Collins Street, Melbourne 3000 .431 George Evans shop and residence row, 309-325 McCracken City Brewery malt store, later Ebsworth Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000........................... 601 House, 538-542 Little Collins Street, Melbourne 3000 .................................................................................438 Melbourne Democratic Club and shops & residences, 401-403 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000............. 608 Porta and Sons, Steam Bellows Works, 25 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000 ............................445 Druids House, 407-409 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000......................................................................... 615 Graeme Butler & Associates 2011: 285 Central City (Hoddle Grid) Heritage Review 2011 W.D. & H.O. Wills (Aust) Ltd tobacco warehouse, 411- 423 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000 ....................622 County Court Hotel , later Oxford Hotel, Oxford Scholar Hotel, 427-433 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000...629 State Electricity Commission of Victoria building, later Lyle House, 22-32 William Street, Melbourne 3000 .635 Dillingham Estates House, Former, 114-128 William Street, Melbourne 3000............................................642 Spier and Crawford, warehouse, 259 William Street, Melbourne 3000 .......................................................650 James White's hay and corn store, 261 William Street, Melbourne 3000 .......................................................656 Graeme Butler & Associates 2011: 285 Central City (Hoddle Grid) Heritage Review 2011 Historical associations with persons or events Victorian Cricket Association Creation or major development date: 1924-5 Building (VCA), 76-80 Flinders Major owners or occupiers: Victorian Cricket Street, Melbourne 3000 Association Designer(s): Davey, H. Croxton Builder(s): Cooper, Walter E Place evaluation Building grading and streetscape level 1985 (Central Activities District Conservation Study 19851: A,B,C,D,E,F): D 2 MCC Place Value Definition 1985: Buildings are either reasonably intact representatives of particular periods or styles or they have been substantially altered but stand in a row or street which retains much of its original character Building grading 1993 (Central Activities District Conservation Study 19932: A,B,C,D,E): C Building grading 2002 (Review of Heritage overlay listings in the CBD 2002): not assessed. Building grading level 2011 (Central Activities District Conservation Study 19853: A,B,C,D,E): C MCC Place Value Definition 2011: These buildings demonstrate the historical or social Figure 183 76-80 Flinders Street development of the local area and/ or make an important aesthetic or scientific contribution. These buildings comprise a variety of styles and buildings types. Architecturally they are substantially intact, but where altered, it is reversible. In some instances, buildings of high individual historic, scientific or social significance may have a greater degree of alteration. National Estate Heritage Values satisfied: A.4 Demonstrates well the course and pattern of history, important historic events E.1 Aesthetic importance to the community or cultural group, typically judged as representing an architectural style Statement of Significance What is significant? The Victorian Cricket Association (VCA) had been formed as early as 29 September 1875 but in the immediate post First-War era of newfound interest in outdoor activities and team sports, the 1 Figure 184 Shopfront in Russell St: entry recess, Referenced in the Melbourne Planning Scheme clause 22.04 metal frame. 2 Referenced in the Melbourne Planning Scheme clause 22.04 3 Referenced in the Melbourne Planning Scheme clause 22.04 Graeme Butler & Associates 2011: 285 Heritage Assessment of 76-80 Flinders Street, Melbourne association had thrived to the extent that they During the Second World War, Defence now possessed sufficient