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TADGELL BROTHERS OFFICE (FORMER)

Other Name

MPAC heritage study

Location

13 NORWOOD CRESCENT,, MOONEE PONDS VIC 3039 - Property No 192328

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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13 Norwood Crescent.JPG
[2/2]
Essendon Conservation Study

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Tadgell Brothers Office, designed by Frederick Tadgell and constructed c.1902, at 13 Norwood Crescent, Moonee Ponds is significant.

Non-original alterations and additions to the house including the building at 15 Norwood Crescent are not significant.

How is it significant?
The former Tadgell Brothers Office at 13 Norwood Crescent, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant as evidence of the recovery after the 1890s depression and for its associations with Tadgell Brothers who played an important role in the development of Moonee Ponds in the early decades of the twentieth century. This office was the first commerical building constructed in Norwood Crescent, which would develop as an adjunct to the Puckle Street centre after World War I. (Criteria A & H)

Architecturally, it is significant as a pretentious and witty design for its small scale, designed to attract the most attention from the smallest of spaces, as required by its use and located opposite its progenitor the railway. (Criteria D & E)

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