the directors, and his brother in law had been a manager. He was invited to a limited competition called in 1888 by the company to design a 12 storey office building on the corner of Elizabeth Street and Flinders Lane, which was won Henry Hardie Kemp, who soon took on partners to become Oakden, Addison and Kemp. Beswicke was included in the project as he had studied tall buildings, and probably provided technical advice, while the Queen Anne style of what became known as the Australian Building (aka APA Building) was Kemp's. The remarkable structure was amongst the worlds tallest at the time, and it remained Melbourne's tallest until the 1920s, and was demolished in 1980. He designed a number of notable shop/ office/ residence blocks in a distinctive eclectic style that included polychrome brickwork with cement render classical details over three storeys; there are two such blocks in Auburn Village in Hawthorn, on Auburn Road, near Burwood Road, and a larger one on Brunswick Street, Fitzroy. that is now named after the architect as the Beswicke Building. Some of his houses feature distinctive corner turrets with 'candle snuffer' roofs, his own house Rotha sports the first example, with square ones on the three houses at 5, 7, 9 Yarra Street, Hawthorn, with later examples on Redholme (Warwillah) and Talana. Another distinctive feature is the use of decorative gables on each face of a polygonal bay window, also seen on his own house Rotha, on Derriweit Heights, and in simpler versions on single storey houses. Notable works Town Halls: Brighton Town Hall, 1885 Malvern Town Hall, 1886, Wilson & Beswicke Essendon Town Hall, 1886, Wilson & Beswicke Dandenong Town Hall, 1890, Beswicke & Hutchins Hawthorn Town Hall, 1888 Churches: Keysborough Uniting (formerly Methodist) Uniting Church, Chapel Rd, Keysborough, 1877, St. Kilda Presbyterian, Barkly Street and Alma Road, St. Kilda, 1883 Commercial: Two sets of three storey shops, Auburn Road, Auburn Village Beswicke Buildings, three storey shops and residences, 236-252 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Domestic: ‘Les Avents’ (‘Carn Brae’, altered in the 1920s), 5 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn 1873 'Tudor Lodge'(later Hilton House), 13 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn, 1873 'Lexinton' (later Murtoa), 7 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn, 1878 'Bendigonia', 25 Queens Road, Melbourne, 1882, Wilson & Beswicke 'Tudor House', cnr. Pasco and Electra streets, Williamstown, 1884, Wilson & Beswicke 'Rotha', (Beswicke's own home), 29 Harcourt Street, Hawthorn, 1887 'Miharo', 145 Noble Street, Newtown, Geelong, 1890,