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S & E MACKAY BLOUSE FACTORY (FORMER)
Location34 WILSON STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions to the building are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The building, constructed as blouse factory for Sarah and Annie
Mackay in 1916-17, at 34 Wilson Street, Moonee Ponds is significant.
It is a small brick factory with a hip roof concealed behind a
triangular parapet with dog-tooth brick course and cornice. At the
centre of the parapet is a segmental-arch louvred vent below a string
course, and there is implied quoining at the corners of the walls. The
building is set back from the frontage and is built hard on the north
boundary, which has a blank wall.
The former factory at 34 Wilson Street, Moonee Ponds is of local
historic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Historically, it is the oldest surviving factory in the
municipality and is a representative example of the 'residential
scale' factories that were established within residential areas during
the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century when it was
desirable for employees to be within walking distance of their place
of work. The factory is illustrative of the small-scale clothing
factories that were encouraged by tariff protection during the first
half of the twentieth century. It is also of interest as a factory
established by two women, which employed an exclusive female
workforce. (Criteria A & D)
Group
Manufacturing and Processing
Category
Factory/ Plant