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JUNCTION HOTEL & SHOPS (FORMER)
Other NameJunction Hotel, MPAC heritage study Location001-7 PUCKLE STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant? Why is it significant It is aesthetically important (Criterion E) as a grandiose and prominent building of its type, reflecting on the status of McCracken's City Brewery Ltd., the design being a counterpoint to the extant shops at the corner of Puckle and Margaret Streets, overlooking the railway station and also using stuccoed surfaces and face brickwork in conjunction. The aesthetic significance of the complex is diminished by the later corner windows and over painting but strengthened by the survival of the original street level openings.
The former Junction Hotel and shops at 1-7 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds, built in 1893-4 to the design of architects J.C.M. Cowan and Co and extended in 1925, are significant.
Later alterations and additions to the building are not significant.
The former Junction Hotel and shops at 1-7 Puckle Street, Moonee Ponds are of historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is historically important (Criterion A) as a hotel recalling the earlier hotel of the same name on this site on the Mt Alexander Road, erected by 1869. It is historically important also as a hotel owned by the prominent Melbourne brewer and Essendon resident, Robert McCracken of McCracken and Co., later McCracken's City Brewery Ltd. acquired by the Carlton and United Breweries Pty Ltd. in 1907.
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop