HW & FB Tompkins
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HW & FB Tompkins was an architectural firm established by the brothers Henry (Harry) William (1865 – 1959) and Frank Beauchamp Tompkins (c1867 – 1952) in 1898 in Melbourne, Australia. They went on to become a major commercial firm, designing a large number of department stores, hotels, clubs and office buildings and banks over the next 40 years, many in central Melbourne and most still standing. They were stylistic and structural innovators, an area best known for the huge Myer Department store in Bourke Street, built in many stages in different styles from 1914 to 1933.[1]