Tait
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 060 - Burchett
Built c1912 by Morley and Whelan for Charles Tait. Architect Klengender and Alsop.
Demolished 1960's for Clarendon Apartments
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 060, Gnaroo
Large two storey brick house, with tiled roof, large verandahs and no chimneys
The house was built in 1912 for Charles Tait by builders, Morley & Whelan, to the design of architects, Klingender & Alsop. Table Talk gave a glowing account of its features: A new house which is being built in East Melbourne is causing quite a lot of comment because, apparently, it has no chimneys, and has such lovely balconies and verandahs.
East Melbourne, Powlett Street 022
Notable features include an elaborate / high standard design of rendered surfaces. A three storey apartment block designed and constructed by the firm of E Jennings, in 1935. It is finished in rendered brick and distinguished by a entry rising through the full height of the building to break the terracotta tiled roof at the eaves line.
E Jennings & Sons Pty Ltd designed and built this block of sixteen flats for Frank Pentland Watson and Mrs Charles (Elizabeth) Tait in 1935. Work was completed the following year. Little is known about Watson, the electoral rolls of the time list him as having no occupation. Earlier he was described as a traveller.
East Melbourne, Vale Street 098
An apartment building arranged in two symmetrical, three storey wings creating a U-shape, with garden in the middle. It is built in salmon colour brick and is Art Deco in style.
The application to the Council to build this block of flats was dated 31 August 1937. The cost of the building was estimated to be £9050. By early February 1938 the building was completed.
East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 012
A clinker brick, two-storey building of simple classical design with ornamentation limited to an Art Deco decorative feature at the roofline and stylised lettering on the side wall facing an access lane. It appears almost two dimensional in denial of its difficult triangular site. It could be a stage set.
In 1900 two 2-storey brick houses on this site were sold for demolition and removal to make way for the new extension to the Inner Circle railway line which opened in 1902. The railway line cut diagonally through the land leaving the cramped, triangular site we see today. This unused land remained vacant until 1939 when the current building was completed. Although no advertise
Kelly Gang rides into history
Newspaper clipping about the addition of surviving fragments of the film, The Story of the Kelly Gang being added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. This film is recognised as the world's first full length feature film. It was made in 1906 and directed by Charles Tait who later moved to East Melbourne and lived at 60 Clarendon Street.
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Lawyers living in East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls - 1936, 1939, 1945 and 1955
1 x A4 page of typed notes being names of lawyers extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1936, 1939, 1945 and 1955.
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