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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier Formerly Address Constructed 1876 Amendment C 29 Comment Significance Description Former Freemasons Hall unknown 254-256 Ferrars St SOUTH MELBOURNE (Mapped as a Significant heritage property.) The former Freemasons Hall is of significance as a South Melbourne landmark and for having been built to house the Yarra Yarra Masonic Lodge. Architecturally it is also one of the most commanding institutional buildings in the area and is unusual in its two storeyed form for a hall structure. The building’s significance is enhanced by its intact state. Primary Source Original Use: Freemasons Hall Date of Construction: 1876 (1) Architect: Adamson and McKean (2) Dorcas St Category Public Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987 Other Studies Designer Adamson and McKean The site of the Freemasons Hall on the south-west corner of Dorcas Street was acquired by the Yarra Yarra Masonic Lodge in 1875 (3). The following year and at a cost of £2,000 (4), Leonard Haffner (5) was commissioned to build the hall to the designs of local Emerald Hill architects, R. Adamson and W. McKean. Erected as the first permanent rooms of the Yarra Yarra (Scottish) Lodge, No. 714 E.C. (6), the building was used by the Freemasons until 1881, when financial difficulties forced them to vacate (7). After a short period in the hands of real estate agents (8) the building was owned and occupied from at least 1884, by Henry Mortimer Franklyn, the Victorian publisher and journalist. Although no confirming evidence has been found it is thought that Franklyn may have used the Masonic Hall for publishing purposes (9). James Munro, businessman, former Premier and Treasurer of Victoria, is listed as the following owner of the building in 1887(10), when it is described as a hall and store, having an N.A.V. of £150 (11). By 1895 the ‘Try Boys Society’ were the new occupants (12). The Yarra Yarra Lodge re-acquired the hall in 1910, however with Ferrars St Heritage Precinct Overlay None Heritage Overlay(s) HO122 Citation No: 1098
increasing membership it again became necessary to secure new premises (13). On its corner site, the hall is a landmark in South Melbourne and while relatively close to the Town Hall, it is one of the few institutions to have been built to the west of the St Kilda railway line. The façade is fashioned in render, the ground floor with its rusticated piers forming the basement course to the decorated piano nobile floor above. The first floor is decorated with shallow corinthian pilasters and the cornice above it is surmounted by a balustrated parapet. The Coat of Arms, name and date remain intact above the Dorcas Street entrance, while the Ferrars Street entrance houses a commanding entrance way. History see Description Thematic Context unknown Recommendations A Ward, Port Phillip Heritage Review, 1998 recommended inclusions: Victorian Heritage Register National Estate Register Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Table in the City of Port Phillip Planning Scheme References 1 National Estate, ‘Listing for South Melbourne Freemason’s Hall’, as at 22 September 1986 2 Architects’ Index, University of Melbourne 3 National Trust of Australia (Vic.), ‘Submission for the Addition of the Former, Freemason’s Hall…’, held in File No. 2746 4 HBPC, ‘Findings of the Sub-committee’, in File No. 83/2803 5 ibid. 6 National Trust of Australia (Vic.), ‘Building Citation: 254-256 Ferrars Street’ 7 National Trust of Australia (Vic.), ‘Submission for the Addition…’ 8 ibid. 9 [not recorded] 10 ibid. 11 City of South Melbourne Rate Books, 1887/88 12 An inscription on the front wall of the building reads ‘South Melbourne Try Boys’ Society, 1895’ 13 National Trust of Australia (Vic.), ‘Submission for the Addition…’
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