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Napier Waller House Fairy Hills 9 Crown Road,, IVANHOE VIC 3079 - Property No B4203	Built in 1922, essentially to the design of the artist Napier Waller as his home and work place. The exterior is of dry-cast over reinforced concrete walls, with steeply pitched gables and Tudor style battens. The interior incorporates a mellow blend of art deco elements, powerfully expressed in the "living hall". The whole is compellingly individual, yet quintessentially an expression of styles exploited and developed in the 1930s. The glass studio, 1931, is a harmonious addition. ... more	B4203	State
Florentino Restaurant & Napier Waller & Assistants Murals 78 - 82 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4332	Preamble; Samuel Wynn (co-founder of Wynn's Wines) re-established the popular French Cafe Denat from Ehibition Street, to a little closer to the source of his trade (Parliament House and Gordon House), upstairs at 78-80 Bourke Street. In 1925, part of the upstairs interior now known to many as the Cafe Florentino 'old' dining room was created to the design of architect JVT Ward. Wynn subsequently leased the cafe to Rinaldo Massoni. In turn, Massoni obtained space over 82 Bourke ... more	B4332	State
Myer Emporium & Napier Waller Murals 314-336 & 412 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4829	The Myer Emporium holds a unique place in Melbourne's social and retail business history. The department store occupies a double site between Bourke and Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets (Post Office Place) that was gradually amalgamated by the energetic Sidney Myer from 1911. The complex of buildings, mainly constructed in stages during the 1920s and 1930s to designs by the leading commercial architects of the time, H W & F B Tompkins, are of State significance. Together, ... more	B4829	State
Newspaper House & Napier Waller Mural 247 - 249 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4094	Building Statement of Significance: Remodelled in 1932-33 to the designs of noted architects Stephenson and Meldrum as a result of a statewide competition organised by the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., the facade of Newspaper House with its emphatically horizontal Moderne balconettes and stylized geometric decoration is of state significance as being the second commercial Moderne design built in central Melbourne and possibly Victoria. Of added significance is the classically ... more	B4094	State
Melbourne Town Hall - Organ & Napier Waller Murals 90-130 Swanston Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B1305	Town Hall Statement of Significance An impressive example of Venetian Renaissance facade architecture used for a public purpose. Included are all buildings and the portico. Buildings interiors excluded. First classified: 13/02/1964 Classified: 02/09/1971 Pipe Organ Statement of Significance: An imposing organ case in Queensland maple, designed by Stephenson & Meldrum in a beaux arts style and made by E Newman & Son, of Kew, ... more	B1305	State
Napier Waller Prometheus Mural - Foyer, Monash House 15-33 William Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6440	Waller's "Prometheus" is significant at the Regional level. Until his death in 1972, Waller was a highly-esteemed creator of large-scale decorative schemes (stained glass, mural and Mosaic) for major public and ecclesiastical buildings. However, the peak of his celebrity occurred during the thirties, forties and fifties. It was then that his Deco-inspired style of mythologising and streamlined figuration crystallised as a popular idiom for works of public art. With its sense of ... more	B6440	Regional
Former Napier Hotel 50 Stevedore Street & Cnr Haslam Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B4279		B4279	File only
166-182 Napier Street & Former Buck's Head Inn (Group Class.) 166 - 182 Napier Street, FITZROY VIC 3065 - Property No B3227	Group Classification 166-168, 172 & 176 (there is no No 174) 178-182. Group Statement of Significance: An evocative streetscape containing six modest cottages and the former Bucks Head Inn, built in various stages prior to 1873, with special reference to the Dutch gablets and pinnacles of the inn and the stucco work (probably a later addition) of Nos 178 and 180 but excluding later modifications to the ground floor of the inn. Classified: 11/05/1972 See also 32-42 ... more	B3227	Local
Napier Hotel 210 Napier Street,, FITZROY VIC 3065 - Property No B4470	The present Napier Hotel at the corner of Napier and Moor Streets, Fitzroy was erected in 1916 for the Carlton and United Brewing Company and replaced an earlier hotel of the same name dating from 1866. The architects were Sydney Smith and Ogg who designed several buildings in a similar style during the early years of this century. The contractor was W B Cooper. The facades of the two storey brick structure are identical and are joined at a splayed corner which rises to form a ... more	B4470	Local
Mount Napier Homestead 14 miles west Penshurst &14 miles sth Hamilton, MOUNT NAPIER VIC 3301 - Property No B1440	Mount Napier homestead, situated near the extinct Western District volcano from which the property name derives, was settled by former Hobart town colonists Andrew, John and Thomas Brown, from 1840-49. By 1853 "two small (stone) houses of two rooms each with a kitchen" were erected of rubble stone with external chimneys and hipped roof. The present Edwardian brick house of 1906 abuts the original stone homestead and stables. The original stone buildings of Mount Napier ... more	B1440	Local

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