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Gordon House

Other Name 'Our Lodgings' Location 24-38 Little Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4301 File Number B4301 Level State

[1/1] B4301 Gordon House

Statement of Significance

Victoria's only model lodging house complex, of 1884, distinctively planned around a courtyard bridged by galleries giving access to a central stair tower,and significant as a monument to the philanthropy of the leading actor and theatrical entrepreneur George Selth Coppin and as one of the more austere works of the Boom-period architect William Pitt, using a stripped version of Modern Gothic. The buildings have suffered some alterations, including the sandblasting of the external walls and the roofing of the court.
Classified: 06/04/1978
Revised: 17/02/1983