Business premises, Goulburn Street for Samuel Hordern Esq. ca. 1903 / Albert Bond, Architect

PXD 1048

fonds

ca. 1903

872515

4 architectural drawings - pen and wash, on linen backing - 55.5 x 96 cm

The building was designed by architect Albert Bond (1841?-1923?) (who had designed and erected the Hordern Palace Emporium at Haymarket). Bond had been the first full time City Architect from 1873 to 1877 and had designed parts of the Sydney Town Hall. His offices were located at 131 Pitt Street in 1902.

References:
“Buildings and works: New enterprises”, Sydney Morning Herald, October 4, 1904, p. 8.
Sands Sydney, suburban and country commercial directory for
1902, J. Sands, Sydney.
City of Sydney. http://cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au (accessed August 5, 2009)

These plans are for Anthony Hordern and Sons New Palace Emporium, situated at George, Goulburn and Pitt Streets, up to Swan Street and completed in September 1905. It consisted of 4 blocks (A - D), separated by laneways. Lifts were located in the laneways separating the blocks. Bridges crossed the lanes on each floor. The building opened on September 11th, 1905. It was demolished in 1987.

1. Block B Drawing No. 2. Elevation to Lane No. 1.
2. Block B Drawing No. 3?. Elevation to Lane No. 2. Includes 5th, 6th and 7th tower floor plan.
3. Block B Drawing No. 4. Elevation to Swan Street. Includes 8th floor plan tower, roof plan tower, platform plan tower and section tower and Section E-F.
4. Block B Drawing No. 5. Section G-H and I-J. Includes detail from tower.

Research & study copies allowed

Scale 1/8th inch to one foot

On 10 July 1901, the Anthony Hordern and Sons Palace Emporium, a conglomeration of buildings in the Haymarket (on George, Pitt, Gipps and Hay Streets), was destroyed by fire. The Exhibition building in Prince Alfred Park was immediately leased from the Council and business resumed the next day. In December 1901 construction was completed on a new, smaller building on the Haymarket site.

Samuel Hordern made plans to return the premises to Brickfield Hill, where his father had originally traded in the 1840’s. He systematically purchased the 74 shops, offices and houses in the block consisting of George, Goulburn and Pitt Streets, up to Swan St and demolished them to make way for the New Palace Emporium. The cost of the construction of the building alone was estimated to be about ₤250,000. An extra storey was added in 1914 and the building was modernised in the 1920’s and 1930's. Walton’s bought out Hordern's and it was closed as a store in 1973. It was leased to various tenants in the 1970’s and eventually demolished in 1987.

References:
Children of one family: the story of Anthony and Ann Hordern and their descendants in Australia 1825-1925 / Lesley Hordern. Sydney : Redford Press, 1985.
Historic record of Sydney City buildings : a review of historic commercial building construction in the Victorian era / Balint, Emery. Sydney : UNSW School of Building, 1984.
Historic Houses Trust. http://www.hht.net.au (accessed August 6 2009)

"Albert Bond, Architect" Signed at lower right

No. 3 attached drawing torn