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NIELSON'S BUILDINGS
Location57-59 FLETCHER STREET, ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? They are a pair of two-storey shop-residences in a parapeted terrace
form. The first floors are constructed in bichrome brick set behind a
cement-rendered arcade, with cast-cement ornament. The timber
shopfront and door has been retained at No. 57 with a splayed entry to
the party wall. The rear extension and recessed shopfront to No. 59 are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? It is historically significant as a tangible illustration of the
early commercial development of the Fletcher and Napier streets area
of Essendon, which was Essendon's main commercial centre until
challenged by Rose Street in the 1910s. (Criterion A)
Neilsen's Buildings, at 57-59 Fletcher Street, Essendon, are
significant. They were built c1889-90 for Ellen Neilsen, who rang a
confectioner's and later a boot shop from one of the tenancies.
The shop is of local architectural and historical significance to
the City of Moonee Valley.
It is architecturally significant as a late Victorian commercial
building which is distinguished by the use of arcading to the
first-floor. The arcades are embellished with restrained classical
cast-cement ornament including panelled pilasters framing each
tenancy, vermiculated keystones, run arch mouldings, slender engaged
barley-twist colonnettes, and balusters. No. 57 is rare in Essendon
and Moonee Valley for the survival of its timber shopfront and door.
(Criteria E & B)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop