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Holmes Road and Norwood Crescent
Other NamePrecinct LocationHOLMES ROAD, and NORWOOD CRESCENT, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions to the shops are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The Holmes Road and Norwood Crescent Precinct, which comprise the
shops,constructed in stages from 1905 to 1937, at 2-28 & 11-31
Holmes Roadand 1-11 Norwood Crescent, Moonee Ponds are significant. The
originalshopfronts to the shops facing Norwood Crescent are a notable
element.
The Holmes Road and Norwood Crescent Precinct is of local historic
and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
The precinct is historically significant as evidence of the
recovery after the 1890s depression and demonstrate how construction
of electric tramway along Puckle Street to the Moonee Ponds railway
station encouraged development in the first decades of the twentieth
century. These shops demonstrate how the area west of the railway line
developed as an adjunct to the Puckle Street centre in the early
twentieth century. (Criteria A)
The precinct is aesthetically significant as a highly intact
precinct of early to mid twentieth century shops, which are notable
for their varied detailing and remaining shopfronts. (Criterion E)
Group
Commercial
Category
Commercial Precinct