The BuildingsSTEWART STREET
Currie and Richards Warehouse
The building
On the corner of Franklin and Stewart Streets, this three-storey brick warehouse went up in the 1870s for the tinware manufacturer Alfred Shaw and Co. It began as a tin-stamping and japanning works. The stuccoed Renaissance Revival front, rusticated at street level, later carried the name of a second firm, Currie and Richards, whose hardware business gives the building its name today. The upper floors are now apartments.
In brief
- 1850William Leney Brodie acquires the land, then used as a timber yard.
- 1869The hardware firm Currie and Richards is founded by Donald Currie and George Richards; the 1869 date on the parapet marks the firm, not the building.
- 1877The Illustrated Australian News publishes a wood engraving of the factory on the corner of Franklin and Stewart Streets, the Australian Tin Stamping and Japanning Works.
The doorstep
Two places within a short walk.
What each one is, and how far it is from the front door. Select a place to see it on the map.
1
Nature647 m · 8 min walk
Flagstaff Gardens
Melbourne's oldest public park, on the hill that was the colony's first burial ground and signal station.
2
Character309 m · 4 min walk
State Library Victoria
Australia's oldest public library, free to walk into, crowned by the domed La Trobe Reading Room.
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