I.G. Anderson
East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029
This is an interesting design solution for flats on a narrow site. The street facade is dominated by a half circle stairwell articulated by steel framed vertical windows (with etched glass in horizontal pattern), and two horizontal render bands. Doors to each flat have etched glass panels. [1-Heritage database]
I.G.Anderson built this block of flats for Hugh, Patrick and Frank Ryan, brothers and pastoralists with extensive holdings all over Australia. The brothers teamed up with Anderson again at 29 and 37 George Street, and at two of the blocks which make up the Garden Avenue complex.
East Melbourne, Simpson Street 054, 056, Liege Apartments
Notable features include unpainted decorative brickwork. A three storey block of flats incorporating a number of understated Moderne details into an inexpensive and otherwise generic design.
I.G. Anderson was commissioned to build this block of apartments by Liege Investments Pty Ltd, a company which had applied for registration less than a week before the building application was lodged on 12 August 1940. This was the same day the building application was lodged for 29 Hotham Street, also by Anderson.
East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 458, Dorijo
A three storey building of rendered brick containing 12 apartments in the Art Deco style. As it faces Victoria Parade it is a symmetrical building with the main entrance at the ground floor level of the central element, and above French doors opening onto balconies. The balconies diminish in width as they progress up the building giving a sense of increased height.
History: Rupert Stanley Joseph, auctioneer, became the registered owner of the land now known as 458 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, in 1919 (Certificate of Title Vol 4196 Fol 131). In 1932, aged in his mid-50s and by then calling himself an investor, he married Doris Lilian Meinardi (Ancestry).