Elizabeth House - Bair Street, Leongatha
“Elizabeth House” at 3 Bair Street Leongatha, was designed by Trevor C. McCullough between 1939 and 1940.
“Elizabeth House” is a group of three interwar shops contained under a common rendered parapet of modern Art Deco design, stepping up to a central motif with the name “Elizabeth House" in large raised Chicago Art Deco style lettering placed centrally. The cantilevered verandah has raised horizontal bands at the top and bottom of the fascia. Today, only the shop front of the north shop is original. The building, typically for many interwar commercial developments, focuses on the complex itself, rather than permitting each shop a separate identity.
"Elizabeth House" was constructed as a complex of three brick shops for Miss A. C. Wightman. Trevor C. McCullough also designed Bair's Otago Hotel on the opposite side of Bair Street in the same year as construction bgan on the three shops. The Shire of Woorayl Rate Books show that one of the first tenants in 1942 was "Kenneth Alfred Hayes, Jeweller"; Hayes Jewellers still occupied a shop in the building in 2002.
Historically, “Elizabeth House” is one of a group of buildings that demonstrate the important phase of development of the commercial centre of Leongatha in the interwar years. Aesthetically, it is a locally rare and superior example of an interwar commercial building in the Art Deco style. It makes an important contribution to the historic character of the precinct surrounding the intersection of Bair and McCartin Streets in Leongatha.
Trevor C. McCullough was a Melbourne based architect and builder who designed and constructed a number of commercial buildings in the Shire during the interwar and immediate postwar period including Bair's Otago Hotel (1939), Elizabeth House (1940) and extensions to the Mirboo North Butter Factory (1949).
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
Elizabeth House - Bair Street, Leongatha
“Elizabeth House” at 3 Bair Street Leongatha, was designed by Trevor C. McCullough between 1939 and 1940.
“Elizabeth House” is a group of three interwar shops contained under a common rendered parapet of modern Art Deco design, stepping up to a central motif with the name “Elizabeth House" in large raised Chicago Art Deco style lettering placed centrally. The cantilevered verandah has raised horizontal bands at the top and bottom of the fascia. Today, only the shop front of the north shop is original. The building, typically for many interwar commercial developments, focuses on the complex itself, rather than permitting each shop a separate identity.
"Elizabeth House" was constructed as a complex of three brick shops for Miss A. C. Wightman. Trevor C. McCullough also designed Bair's Otago Hotel on the opposite side of Bair Street in the same year as construction bgan on the three shops. The Shire of Woorayl Rate Books show that one of the first tenants in 1942 was "Kenneth Alfred Hayes, Jeweller"; Hayes Jewellers still occupied a shop in the building in 2002.
Historically, “Elizabeth House” is one of a group of buildings that demonstrate the important phase of development of the commercial centre of Leongatha in the interwar years. Aesthetically, it is a locally rare and superior example of an interwar commercial building in the Art Deco style. It makes an important contribution to the historic character of the precinct surrounding the intersection of Bair and McCartin Streets in Leongatha.
Trevor C. McCullough was a Melbourne based architect and builder who designed and constructed a number of commercial buildings in the Shire during the interwar and immediate postwar period including Bair's Otago Hotel (1939), Elizabeth House (1940) and extensions to the Mirboo North Butter Factory (1949).
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.