FORMER CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD

CLARKE STREET and ST HELLIERS STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

The Convent of the Good Shepherd at Abbotsford is a large, relatively intact and architecturally distinctive example of a Roman Catholic convent complex. It includes ecclesiastical,…

COLLINGWOOD TOWN HALL

140 HODDLE STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

Built in 1885-90 to a design of Melbourne architect, George Johnson, the Collingwood Town Hall complex comprises town hall, library, municipal offices, court house and post office, all…

FORMER DENTON HAT MILLS

48-60 NICHOLSON STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

The former Denton Hat Mills factory complex is a large and important 19th century factory complex, comparable to similar establishments in England and America. By the 1880s the Denton Hat…

FORMER CHURCH OF CHRIST

11 STANTON STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

The former Church of Christ, Abbotsford was designed by architect and congregation member Jonathan Rankine and built in 1888-9 to replace an earlier building in Langridge Street. The church…

HOTEL VICTORIA

123 BEACONSFIELD PARADE ALBERT PARK, Port Phillip City

Statement of significance: The Victoria hotel was built in 1888 for owner and licensee Mary McGregor to the design of architect Richard Speight. It is sited on the corner of Kerford Road and…

BILTMORE

152 BRIDPORT STREET ALBERT PARK, Port Phillip City

Built as the Albert Park Coffee Palace, Biltmore was begun in 1887 to designs by architect Walter Scott Law, and was completed in 1889 by architects Frederick de Garis and Son. This 40-room…

ALBERT PARK RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

365 FERRARS STREET SOUTH MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY

Albert Park Railway Station Complex, erected in 1888-1889, consists of a pair of buildings constructed of polychromatic brickwork and detailed in Italianate styling. The east building is…

PYRENEES HOUSE

9-59 GIRDLESTONE STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Pyrenees House was built in 1886 as a general hospital to replace its 1860 predecessor which was razed to the ground after being condemned. The designer of the new hospital was Ballarat…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2634

9-23 DENSHAM ROAD ARMADALE, Stonnington City

Primary School No.2634 in Armadale consists of two buildings. The larger of the two is a single storey structure with tuckpointed brown brick walls with contrasting bands. It is believed…

AUBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2948

51 RATHMINES ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, Boroondara City

The establishment of a Primary School in Auburn was the result of much lobbying on behalf of the families of the fast-growing Auburn district. Temporary accommodation was opened in 1889 and…

COURT HOUSE

14 NICHOLSON STREET BAIRNSDALE, East Gippsland Shire

Bairnsdale Court House was built in 1893 during a severe economic depression and held its first sitting on 25 April 1894. An unusually extravagant building for these times, it was designed…

HUYGHUE HOUSE

15 CAMP STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

A substantial police barracks building of multi-coloured brick construction on a bluestone base. The verandah iron work is notable. Reference is made to the disposition of the windows of the…

BALLARAT TRADES HALL

24 CAMP STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Ballarat Trades Hall was constructed in 1887-88 as meeting place for Ballarat's trade unions and as offices for the Ballarat Trades and Labour Council. It is a three-storey brick building…

PROVINCIAL HOTEL

121 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

Historic Buildings Council - Statement of significance The Provincial Hotel, built in 1909 was designed by a Ballarat architect, Percy S. Richards, at a time when Australian architects were…

FORMER MINING EXCHANGE

8-14 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Mining Exchange building was constructed in Lydiard Street, Ballarat in 1887-9. Foundation stones for this building, the Fine Art Gallery and the Old Colonists Association building, all…

OLD COLONISTS ASSOCIATION

16-24 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Old Colonists Association of Ballarat building was constructed in 1887-9 on the site of the barracks and stables of the gold escort in Lydiard Street. The Old Colonists Association was…

GEORGE HOTEL

25 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

The first hotel on this site, the George Inn, was built in 1853, and was among the earliest hotels in Ballarat. It was an imposing two storey building located in a key position on Camp Hill,…

ART GALLERY

38-48 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Ballarat Fine Gallery is important as the first - and probably the most celebrated - of Australia's provincial galleries. This is appropriate given the city's strong tradition of…

FORMER REIDS COFFEE PALACE

128 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

Reid's Coffee Palace was built for J Reid & Sons in two stages on the site of Reid's New York Bakery. The first stage was designed by architects, Tappin & Gilbert and was constructed…

FORMER RESIDENCE

802 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

The two storey brick and cement render building at 802 Sturt street was constructed in 1894-95 as a residence and consulting rooms for Dr. Emil Guthiel, an eye and ear doctor, and designed by…

BENDIGO CEMETERY

70 CARPENTER STREET QUARRY HILL, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

The Bendigo Cemetery site is bounded by Carpenter Street on the east, Houston Street on the north and Burnside and Paterson Streets to the south. It comprises two distinct sections, the…

LAW COURTS

77-85 PALL MALL BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Bendigo Law Courts building was designed by the Victorian Public Works architect George W. Watson in the Victorian Second Empire style and built in 1892-96 by contractors McCulloch and…

SHAMROCK HOTEL

9-23 WILLIAMSON STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

A late and exuberant boom-style hotel built in 1897 whose eclectic design reflects the architectural antecedents of a number of earlier Bendigo buildings. * The four storey brick structure…

COOLOCK HOUSE

PART 164 BARKLY STREET and CORNER VALENTINE AND VIEW STREETS BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Coolock House, formerly known as 'Dendirah' is an exotic and eclectic grand mansion built in 1910 for George Victor Lansell, MLC, the son of Bendigo mining magnate Sir George Lansell. It is a…

QUEEN ELIZABETH OVAL GRANDSTAND

88 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The grandstand at the Queen Elizabeth Oval, Bendigo is important for the following reasons: - as a large, well-conceived and executed late nineteenth century period grandstand, one of the…