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Barnett Gallant & Co. Warehouse

Other Names Cosmos Knitting Mills ,  Hooper's Clothing Factory Location 232 Nicholson Street, FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 - Property No 3056002612 File Number 8803 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] HO61 - Former Warehouse, 232

Statement of Significance

The Barnett Gallant & Co warehouse is of significance to the City of Maribyrnong; architecturally as typical of the austerely ornamented suburban warehouses of the 1880s but also retaining an unusual functionally related enclosed loading right-of-way and balconies. A distinctive building related to a specialised function and process (shop based clothing manufacture) which characterised Suburban commercial centres in the decades either side of the turn of the century. (Criterion D2) Historically it is associated with two major local businesses one of which (Hoopers) (Criterion H1) achieved state-wide prominence for their retailing and implementation of standard working condition for their employees and in relation to the commercial development of Footscray as a regional manufacturing and retailing centre.

(Criterion A4) The small shop-based clothing factories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are now an obsolete form of manufacture with very few related buildings surviving. (Criterion B2)