The Australian Club in Melbourne, Australia is a gentleman's club founded in 1878 by English settlers to provide accommodation, food and refreshments, and congenial surroundings for Melbourne and Victorian businessmen.
The Club is still active and its building at 110 William Street retains its original 19th-century architecture and furniture.
Architecture The building was designed by Lloyd Tayler in 1879 and erected in two stages in 1879 and 1886 in the Renaissance Revival style of a four storey Italianate palazzo.https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/828 The Australian Club - Victorian Heritage Register Tayler himself was expelled from the club shortly afterward. The facade was doubled in width in 1893 by Joshua Charlesworth in a matching symmetrical style. The majority of the building's internal and external fabric is preserved and intact. The portico, loggia, copper mansard roof and cupola were added in 1893 at the end of the land boom.
Notable members The following notable persons are known to have been members: Sir William John Clarke (1831–1897), landowner, stud-breeder and philanthropistSee Australian Dictionary of Biography under that head name Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk (1886–1965), radio pioneer and businessman Sir Colin Fraser (1875–1944), Duncan Gillies (1834–1903), politician Rupert W. Hornabrook (1871–1951), anaesthetist Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson (1875–1952), politician and lawyer Sir James MacBain (1828–1892), businessman and politician John Alexander MacPherson (1833–1894), politician Sir Norman Angus Martin (1893–1978), farmer, grazier and politician Alexander Morrison (1829–1903), schoolmaster Sir William Herbert Phillipps (1847–1935), merchant and philanthropist in SA Sir Alfred Roberts (1823–1898), surgeon William Rutledge (1806–1876), merchant, banker and settler Edmund Edmonds Smith (1847–1914), ship-owner Sir Sydney Snow (1887–1958), retailer Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986), businessman Col. P. W. Vaughan (1871–1945), banker William Irving Winter-Irving (1840–1901), pastoralist Charles William Wren (1856–1934), banker
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External links Australian Club — about us Victorian Heritage Database