
| Also known as | Carron Hotel (1870) | Source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244722554 |
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| Constructed | 1st) 16/5/1868 | |
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| Builder | 1st) Joseph Sean of Peel Street, West Melbourne |
Timelapse Building Images

photographer Graeme Butler
Land Details
- 1895 MMBW Map
- Compiled Crown Record Plan showing the first Crown Land purchaser was Gubrielli.
Building Details
Notice of intent to build.
Street: Dudley near corner Dudley & Spencer Street
Number: 2627. Date 16/5/1868
Owner: Crabtree [John]
Builder: Joseph Sean, of Peel Street, West Melbourne
Fee: 2.10.0
Type: Shop and dwelling, with a private back yard garden.
Burchett Index
Subsequent Building Alterations
Architectural Features
Heritage Significance and Listings
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A substantially intact two-storey brick and blue-stone Victorian shop and dwelling built by Joseph Sean of Peel Street for John Crabtree in 1868. |
Owners
| From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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| to date | private | Hatcher Index | ||
| 1870 | Drew, Mrs Agnes | Hatcher Index | ||
| Gubrielli (first Crown Land purchaser) | Hatcher Index | |||
| abt 40 thousand years earlier | 1835 | Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria | Hatcher Index |
Residents
| From | To | Resident | More Info | Data Source |
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| to date | Private (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Hatcher Index | ||
| 1965 | 1974 | Hill, J. & P. confectioners/cafe (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024 | |
| 1960 | Gagliardi, M. wine salon (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024 | ||
| 1955 | Giliberti, S. hairdresser (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024 | ||
| 1940 | 1950 | Hopkinson, W. J. hairdresser (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2024 | |
| 1930 | 1935 | Brokensha, Mrs Evelyn (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | |
| 1925 | Iddles, Harry hairdresser & tobacconist (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | ||
| 1920 | Clotz, John H. hairdresser & tobacconist (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | ||
| 1915 | Trevaskis, George W. hairdresser & tobacconist (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | ||
| 1898 | 1910 | Douglas, Robert G. hairdresser (shop and residence 441 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | |
| 1890 | 1897 | Peterson, John hairdresser (441 Spencer St was known as 59 Spencer St before street renumbering) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | |
| 1883 | 1889 | Barr, George hairdresser & tobacconist & Mrs Susie (441 Spencer St was known as 59 Spencer St before street renumbering) | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241372791 | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 |
| 1875 | 1880 | Rundstrom. Peter F. hairdresser & tobacconist (known as 59 Spencer St) | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5956542 | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 |
| 1870 | Crabtree, John (known as 59 Spencer St) | Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher 2025 | ||
| 1868 | construction of a shop and dwelling, corner Dudley & Spencer Streets. | Miles Lewis Australian Architectural Index. |
Social History
Thursday 17th November 1870
NOTICE of APPLICATION for a PUBLICAN’S LICENSE. — To the Bench of Magistrates at Melbourne. I, Mrs. JAMES DREW, widow, now residing at No. 9 Bank-street, Emerald Hill, in the colony of Victoria, do hereby give notice that it is my intention to apply to the Justices sitting at the Court of Petty Sessions to be holden at Melbourne, on the twenty fifth, day of November, for a CERTIFICATE authorising the issue of a PUBLICANS LICENSE for a house situated at the corner of Spencer and Dudley streets, West Melbourne. The house contains two sitting and two bedrooms, exclusive of those required for the use of my family. The house is built of bluestone and brick, and has never been licensed, and is rented by me from John Crabtree, of Spencer-street, and to be known as the Carron Hotel. The eighth day of November, A.D. 1870. AGNSS DREW.
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