Tuesday 31 July 2018

Zig-Zag Storefronts and The Norway Apartments


211-213 Bank, at Nepean — with the crazy brickwork on the storefronts. Goad indicates construction between 1878 and 1888, with a grocer and a druggist doing business here by the latter date. At some point, the building was extended back along Nepean, creating a decent-sized apartment block at #178.

That annex, "The Norway" can be seen to the left in this side view, clad in darker brick.



The Norway (entrance just to the left of the blue car) comprised thirteen units — numbered 1-12, 14 — and probably still does. It was built some time between 1916 and 1923.