Hoopers Store: 463-475 Sydney Road, Brunswick, BRUNSWICK
| Building ProfileName : Hoopers Store
LocationAddress: 463-475 Sydney Road, Brunswick City: BRUNSWICK
Postcode: 3056
Construction DetailsBuilt: 1908 Original use: Commercial Current use: Commercial
number of floors : 3Built in the Edwardian period in the Chicagoesque style
Notable featuresHoopers store is reputedly the first example of the American style of steel construction in Victoria, perhaps Australia - a concept conceived in Chicago in the late 1880s, and one which was pioneered and exploited locally by the Tompkins brothers during the first quarter of the twentieth century. It is also notable for its early use of a cantilevered or suspended street awning. Spacious cantilevered verandahs became the fashion by the 1920s, thus superseding the earlier more squat post supported types. Hoopers store is also important as an early example in Victoria of American Romanesque style architecture - a style of simplicity and weighty robustness developed during the last half of the nineteenth century which reflected commercial and industrial wealth and power. HistoryArchitect: H.W & F.B Tompkins
Hoopers Store is classified by:
Did you find what you were looking for ? Discuss Hoopers Store in the Walking Melbourne Forum
|
|