In his headquarters for the new English, Scottish and Australian Bank, goldrush immigrant William Wardell created what experts later acclaimed as the finest Gothic Revival building in Australia, with its iron columns and gilded heraldic decoration. General manager George Verdon lived like a Venetian magnate in a private suite above his new bank.
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Accepted Design for the new English, Scottish and Australian Chartered Bank, 3 October 1883, by Albert Charles Cooke, courtesy of State Library of Victoria.
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