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SHOPS

Location

711 and 715 High Street THORNBURY, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #336

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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City of Darebin Heritage
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City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The shops at 711 and 715 High Street, Thornbury, constructed by 1906 for Samuel Millsom. The richly decorated parapets are the principal elements contributing to the significance of the place.

How is it significant?
The shops at 711 and 715 High Street, Thornbury areof local aesthetic significance to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
They are aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as commercial buildings of the Post Federation years demonstrating through their architectural style the nature of development sustained by High Street at that time and being locally unique for their identical and unusual Art Nouveaux spandrels terminated at either end by Arts and Crafts pilasters. Whilst being expressive of the new age, the spandrels appear also to have their roots in contemporary American work including that of the celebrated architect Louis H. Sullivan. Locally, this ornamentation compares with examples at the Glenferrie Market Buildings, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn; 82 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne (Nahum Barnet 1914) and Flinders Street station (J.W. Fawcett and H.P.C. Ashworth, Victorian Railways Department 1901-11).

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