Barnett Gallant & Co. Warehouse
232 Nicholson Street, FOOTSCRAY VIC 3011 - Property No 3056002612
Statement of Significance
The Barnett Gallant & Co warehouse is of significance to the City of Maribyrnong; architecturally as typical of the austerely ornamented suburban warehouses of the 1880s but also retaining an unusual functionally related enclosed loading right-of-way and balconies. A distinctive building related to a specialised function and process (shop based clothing manufacture) which characterised Suburban commercial centres in the decades either side of the turn of the century. (Criterion D2) Historically it is associated with two major local businesses one of which (Hoopers) (Criterion H1) achieved state-wide prominence for their retailing and implementation of standard working condition for their employees and in relation to the commercial development of Footscray as a regional manufacturing and retailing centre.
(Criterion A4) The small shop-based clothing factories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are now an obsolete form of manufacture with very few related buildings surviving. (Criterion B2)
Footscray Conservation Study SOS
Architecturally, typical of the austerely ornamented Suburban warehouses of the 1880s, but also retaining an unusual enclosed loading R.O.W. and related balconies on its south side. Historically, associated with two major Footscray businesses, one of (Hooper's) which achieved State-wide prominence for their retailing and their actions in achieving standard working conditions.
Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) criteria
The Australian Heritage Commission criteria consist of a set of eight criteria which cover social, aesthetic, scientific, and historic values. Each criterion has sub-criteria written specifically for cultural or natural values. The relevant criteria are:
H.1 association with important person or group
B.2 rarity
D.2 good example of type
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FORMER BARKLY THEATRE
Victorian Heritage Register H0878 -
PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.253
Victorian Heritage Register H1713
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FOOTSCRAY RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
Victorian Heritage Register H1563
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'Lawn House' (Former)
Hobsons Bay City -
1 Fairchild Street
Yarra City -
10 Richardson Street
Yarra City
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