FAIMAN FURRIERS (FORMER)

How is it significant?
443 Albion Street is of local historic, representative and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
443 Albion Street is historically significant as part of the important textile and clothing industry in Brunswick's Interwar period. 443 Albion Street was built and operating as premises for the small niche market of fur dying and dressing between 1924 to the early 1950s. Historically 443 Albion Street is associated with three fur dying and dressing firms including Samuel Faiman (1924 - c.1935), Bardin, Rose & North (c.1935-1938) and T.E. Rose & Sons (c.1940 - c.1950). It is historically significant through its demonstration of the integration and multifaceted clothing industry in Brunswick during the Interwar period. (Criterion A)
443 Albion Street is significant for its demonstration of small scale commercial land use and belongs to a declining class of places; that of the clothing manufacturing industry in Moreland. Its principal characteristics are its building typology occupying the whole site with zero setbacks, its two-storey form and relatively plain brick facade. (Criterion D)
443 Albion Street is aesthetically significant for its contribution to the group of commercial premises at the corner of Albion Street and Melville Road. Its value lies in its relative authenticity with a highly intact upper floor featuring three windows and simple render detailing including a panel for business signage. Although some changes to the ground floor including boarding one window, painting of the brickwork and a steel roller door have reduced its integrity in part; it is still able to demonstrate a simple industrial aesthetic. The remains of business signage, probably relating to the 1950s adds to its aesthetic quality. (Criterion E)

Group

Commercial

Category

Warehouse/storage area