LONDON STORES
File Number:
B6561
Level:
Regional
Location:
349 Bourke Street MELBOURNE
Address:
349 Bourke Street MELBOURNE 3000 VIC
Municipality: Melbourne City
Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance:
CITATION A reinforced concrete and steel emporium built to the then Melbourne height limit of 132 feet (40 metres) the London Stores was built in 1925 to a design by the architects H W and F B Tompkins. The building is in the same tradition of cubic classical revival forms expressed by others such as the Nicholas and Port Authority buildings, is one of the major emporiums built in Bourke Street in the period 1910-30 and, is a significant landmark marking, together with the Post Office, the entry to the Bourke Street shopping centre.