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Victor Horsley Chambers

Location 10 -12 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3907 File Number B3907 Level State

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Statement of Significance

Individual Statement of Significance: Built for Victor Horsley Chambers P/L in 1920-22, as one of the State's earliest and most successful examples of commercial Modern Georgian, Victor Horsley Chambers shows an apparent effort by the architectural firm, Blackett & Porster, to harmonize with the classical revival character of Collins Street east and thus provides a precursor to the philosophy behind the first Street Architecture Award made to the same firm's Francis House opposite. As with other buildings in this part of Collins Street it has housed some of the nation's most respected medical practitioners of the period and, with its current internal integrity, which includes the lobby and metal cage lifts, reflects some of the context in which they practised.
Classified: )8/07/1976
Revised: 12/09/1990

Group Classification: Four Storey building of consulting rooms of 1922 in simple 20th Century classic proportions visually sympathetic with Nos. 2, 4-6 and 8 Collins Street.
Group Statement of Significance: A group comprising four low-rise buildings of dates from 1872 to 1938 with a noteworthy sympathetic relationship in the colour and texture of the masonry, the proportion of the windows, detail of balconettes and rustication of ground and/or upper facades. The scale relates to that of the buildings opposite.
Group Classified: 08/07/1976
Revised: 12/09/1990