87 Crown Street | |
Coordinates: | -34.4259°N 150.8982°W |
Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | 87 Crown Street, Wollongong, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
Beginning Label: | Design period |
Designation1: | New South Wales State Heritage Register |
Designation1 Offname: | Shop |
Designation1 Type: | state heritage (built) |
Designation1 Date: | 2 April 1999 |
Designation1 Number: | 467 |
Designation1 Free1name: | Type |
Designation1 Free1value: | Shop |
Designation1 Free2name: | Category |
Designation1 Free2value: | Retail and Wholesale |
Designation1 Free3name: | Builders |
87 Crown Street is a heritage-listed shop in Wollongong, in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1]
It was built 1870s–1880s and has been in continuous use as retail premises since that time. It was used as W. McInnes' tailor shop 1900 and housed Coad's secondhand jewellery store from 1940–1960.[2]
In 2018, it houses cafe Lee and Me.[3]
It is close by a number of other historic or landmark buildings, including the Wollongong Town Hall and the Old Wollongong East Post Office.
It is a terrace shop with a decorative facade and verandah. It has been described as "one of Wollongong's last remaining commercial structures of the nineteenth century".[4]
87 Crown St was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1]