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Melbourne club: an antique Australian blackwood hall seat…
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Melbourne
Date:
7-Dec-2021
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Melbourne club: an antique Australian blackwood hall seat settle, Melbourne, Victorian origin, 19th century, 110 cm high, 145 cm long, 55 cm deep. [See also lot 146]. The Melbourne club is a private social club established at a gathering of 23 gentlemen on Saturday, 17 December 1838, and initially used John Pascoe Fawkner's hotel on the corner of Collins Street and market Street. The club moved to new purpose-built premises at the eastern end of Collins Street, designed by Leonard Terry in Renaissance revival style, in 1859. A dining room wing with a bay window was added at the western end in 1885, designed by Terry & Oakden. It includes, among other rooms, a library, main dining room, private dining room, breakfast room, billiard rooms, lawn room and bedrooms. The building is listed on the Victorian Heritage register. At the rear of the club building is a private courtyard garden, a rarity in Melbourne's central business district. It is also listed on the Victorian Heritage register, and is the location of garden parties and private functions. The garden contains the largest plane tree in Victoria, according to the National Trust's register of significant trees. Despite (or perhaps because) the Melbourne club continuing to insist on a 'Male only' membership policy, it has attracted many high profile members, including Governors general Sir Isaac Isaacs and Sir Ninian Stephen, chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and artists, Arthur Streeton, William Dargie and Daryl Lindsay.
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Furniture: Seating - Benches/Pews