Posts Tagged ‘Demolished’
3-9 Crown Street Woolloomooloo. Sydney, New South Wales (demolished 1980s)
Image courtesy of City of Sydney Archives, CRS 000275Terrace Houses: 3-9 Crown Street, Woolloomooloo
This row of very tall triple storey terraces was a sad loss to Sydney, although many like it still do remain in the inner suburbs.
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Granite Terrace: 1-9 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. Melbourne, Victoria. (demolished 1965)
Courtesy of Fitzroy Local History Photograph CollectionGranite Terrace: 1-9 Gertrude Street. Fitzroy, Victoria.
Granite Terrace (pictured here in 1958 a hundred years after its construction in 1858) is one of those buildings for which I wish I had a time machine to plead with developers not to demolish. Armed with the knowledge of what was there before it is a painful experience to see what is there today. Granite Terrace, a three storey Regency style terrace flanked another famous Melbourne terrace completed the same year – Royal Terrace.
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Rochester Terrace 320-334 Jones Street, Ultimo. Sydney, New South Wales (demolished 1919)
Rochester Terrace, 320-334 Jones St in 1919. (used with permission. City of Sydney Archives, CRS 51/752)
Known as Rochester Terrace, this row of eight terrace houses built in 1879 and fronting Jones Street was typical of the rows of working class terraces homes built in Ultimo during late 1800s. Erected before new building codes were introduced, it’s long gable corrugated iron roof is notably without projecting party walls and only changes pitch slightly on the verandah balconies. Built in brick on a sandstone base it featured plain chimneys and party walls, iron lacework fringe, brackets and balcony and a wooden picket fence.
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Nestle Cottages: Dennington, Victoria (demolished 1987)
Nestle Cottages: Dennington, Victoria (demolished)
Nestle cottages was a very rare1 row of terraces built outside of Warrnambool and although it was added to the Historic Buildings Register in 19862, it was subsequently demolished on appeal by the developer – Nestle3. The terrace was designed in England in 19104.
At the time the media cried foul that heritage was being put before progress. Despite the signatures of 2,000 people from a local conservation group trying to save the building, the state government overturned the heritage listing and the Minister for Planning allowed for their demolition in 1987 3.
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