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Chinese Nationalist Club (Kuomintang)

Other Name Melbourne Chinese Club Location 109 Little Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B2144 File Number B2144 Level Regional

[1/1] B2144 Chinese Club

Statement of Significance

A brick warehouse from c1903 designed by Nahum Barnet (matching the one adjacent at 107). Re-faced to a design by Walter Burley Griffin in 1921 for the Chinese Nationalist Club (Kuomintang). The design covered over most of the red-brick walls and piers with angular layered render, and added Griffin's distinctive crystalline geometric features above the arches, either side of the central door, and an elaborate crystalline grill between the piers, covering the windows and spandrel. The latter was removed in the late 1970's.
Classified: 06/06/1994
Revised: 27/02/2008.