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Prahran Market

Other Name

163-185 Commercial Road, Prahran

Location

163-185 Commercial Road PRAHRAN, Stonnington City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

A complex State Architectural, historic and social significance. The Prahran Market, founded on tis present site in 1881, is one of the oldest surviving public market places in Melbourne. The large rendered brick building fronting Commercial Road was built in 1891 to designs by the notable architect Charles D'Ebro and is substantially original externally except for extensive ground floor alterations and paintwork. This building is one of the few large-scale and most ornate terrace shop rows in Melbourne. Between 1976 and 1982 the market was substantially rebuilt to the designs of the Gunn Hayball partnership. The use of curved tubular steel and corrugated iron, perforated steel panels and pastel colours, the sympathetic refurbishing of historic buildings and the incorporation of contectual elements make this a notable innovative work of the period. The rebuilt Prahran Market received the RAIA Award of Merit 1982 and remmains intact.
The market site has been of enormous social significance for over a century.

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