- Young & Jackson
Infobox_Public_House
name=Young and Jackson
address=Corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne, VIC 3000.
established=1861
closed=
extra=Young and Jackson is a famous pub in
Melbourne , Australia, at the corner of Flinders Street and Swanston Street. It is listed on theVictorian Heritage Register .History
The site was purchased by
John Batman in 1837 at Melbourne's first Crown land sale. On the site was built a home for his children, which became a schoolhouse in 1839. Warehouses were erected on the site after the schoolhouse was razed in 1853. The Princes Bridge Hotel opened there on 1 July 1861. The Hotel was renamed to Young and Jackson after the Irish diggers who took it over in 1875, Henry Young and Thomas Jackson.cite web
url=http://www.heritage.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahpi/record.pl?VICH708
title=Young & Jacksons Princes Bridge Hotel
work=Victorian Heritage Register
publisher=www.heritage.gov.au
accessdate=2008-07-08]The hotel is an amalgamation of five separate buildings of two and three storeys, with the original 1853 bluestone building designed as a three-storey residence, with a butcher's shop on the ground floor. It was later extended in both directions, with all buildings rendered and painted to match each other by the 1920s. Since the 1920s the exterior hotel has been dominated by large advertising signs, even to this day.
"Chloé"
The pub is well known for the nude painting "Chloé", painted by French artist
Jules Joseph Lefebvre in 1875. The painting is oil on canvas measuring a life size 260 x 139cm. It was purchased for 850 guineas by Dr Thomas Fitzgerald ofLonsdale Street in Melbourne. After being hung in theNational Gallery of Victoria for three weeks in 1883, it was withdrawn from exhibition because of the uproar created especially by the Presbyterian Assembly. It was bought for the Young and Jackson Hotel in 1908 for 800 pounds, and was damaged in 1943 by an American serviceman who threw a glass of beer at it.Model
A young Parisian artist’s model named Marie was immortalised as Chloe. Little is known of her, except she was approximately 19 years of age at the time of painting. About two years later, Marie, after throwing a party for friends, boiled a soup of poisonous matches, drank the concoction and died. The reason for her suicide is thought to be unrequited love. [cite web|url=http://www.youngandjacksons.com.au/chloe/chloe%20sheet.1.doc|title=Chloe|accessdate=2008-07-11|format=
Microsoft Word |publisher=Young & Jackson Detailed history of "Chloé"]References
External links
* [http://www.youngandjacksons.com.au/ www.youngandjacksons.com.au] (official site)
* [http://www.chicagobarproject.com/Melbourne/YJ/MelbourneYJ.htm Bar Project]
* [http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=3778 Only Melbourne]
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