2. Standalone telephone exchange buildings (not in the VHR) Former ‘Central’ manual telephone exchange: 25-29 Wills Street, Melbourne (1884) – Not in VHR
This 3-and 4-storey brick and stucco building was constructed in 1884 to house Melbourne's first purpose-built telephone exchange. Prior to the demolition of most of the exchange building somewhere between 10 and 20 years ago, it was in use as a Salvation Army hostel. The former Central exchange’s remaining facades on Wills Street and Singers Lane now bookend a 25-storey apartment building. A café named ‘Operator25’ currently occupies the former building’s Wills Street-facing ground floor area.
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Wills St (left) and Singers Lane (right) facades of former ‘Central’ telephone exchange:
25-29 Wills Street, Melbourne (May 2017)
Malvern Automatic Telephone Exchange and Post Office (from 1919) – Not in VHR
Although proposals for the construction of automatic telephone exchanges at both Malvern and Collingwood were approved in 1915, neither of these were constructed for a period of time. A 1915 Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on the proposal at Malvern – which was to replace an existing exchange within the local post office building – stated that ‘the present building is unsuitable, is incapable of extension and cannot be made to accommodate the new switchboard’ and recommend the construction of a new automatic telephone exchange building.
Tenders were called for the erection of a new ‘Automatic Telephone Exchange and Post Office’ building at Malvern in 1918. The Exchange was built in Llaneast Street, at the rear of the existing post office in Glenferrie Road, and opened in 1919. The new building comprised a post office to the east and adjoining telephone exchange to the west. The Malvern Telephone Exchange is a two-storey red brick building with a set of four arch-headed ground floor window recesses on its Llaneast Street elevation and featuring simple horizontal render bands on all its facades. It remains an operational telephone exchange.
Malvern Automatic Telephone Exchange and Post Office (Google streetview)
Elsternwick automatic telephone exchange (1929) – Not in VHR
An automatic telephone exchange at Elsternwick was proposed in 1924 but not opened until 1929. The single-storey red brick building has a hipped roof behind parapets. Its external walls are articulated into bays by plain pilasters, and feature rendered stringcourses with projecting rendered and painted cornices and sunhoods above the windows to the Selwyn and Sinclair Street elevations. The external street-facing walls also feature very carefully set out panels of face brick detailing. The Elsternwick Telephone Exchange is operational and is an example of an exchange that possesses high levels of intactness and integrity.
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Elsternwick Automatic Telephone Exchange (May 2017)
‘City West’ automatic telephone exchange: 434 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne (1938) – Not in VHR
This Commonwealth Works Department-designed telephone exchange contained eight storeys (including one full basement storey) of floor space. Its exteriors featured finely detailed red brick and terra cotta facings in keeping with the Stripped Classical design of the 1926 and 1935-constructed High Court to its immediate west. It remains an operational telephone exchange, and appears to be in good condition.
When opened the City West Exchange contained five storeys for switching equipment, extensive staff facilities on the top-most floor, a vacuum cleaning plant, turbo-blowers for pneumatic tubes in the trunk switchroom, and an electric winch on the roof for lifting apparatus to access doors on each storey.
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City West Telephone Exchange, 434 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne (May 2017)
The Collingwood Telephone Exchange does not display characteristics that warrant its inclusion on the VHR ahead of these other examples of early and/or highly intact telephone exchange buildings.
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