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Laurel Street Precinct
LAUREL STREET, HIGH STREET, MAPLE STREET, AND PANTON STREET, GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Laurel Street Precinct
LAUREL STREET, HIGH STREET, MAPLE STREET, AND PANTON STREET, GOLDEN SQUARE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
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Former Golden Square Precinct
Golden Square's historic identity springs from the first gold finds in the district at Golden Point and the subsequent development of a rich mining industry, along with some of the area's most important foundries.
Although parts of the old hamlet have altered beyond recognition, it still possesses a core of civic buildings which allow recognition of its former self- contained status. The housing stock is both expressive of the boom-era in mining and, in some cases, the aspirations of mine owners and their chosen architects. It is close or adjoins to significant mine sites such as the New Chum Railway and Eureka Extended Mines and possesses elm plantings from the Victorian era in Panton and Maple Streets.
Golden Square was one of the best known of the mining areas of nineteenth century Bendigo. While few remnants of the early alluvial phase of mining survive the present road patterns, street patterns and several buildings still include elements which suggest different phases in the history of Bendigo both before and after alluvial mining.
Although parts of the old hamlet have altered beyond recognition, it still possesses a core of civic buildings which allow recognition of its former self- contained status. The housing stock is both expressive of the boom-era in mining and, in some cases, the aspirations of mine owners and their chosen architects. It is close or adjoins to significant mine sites such as the New Chum Railway and Eureka Extended Mines and possesses elm plantings from the Victorian era in Panton and Maple Streets.
Golden Square was one of the best known of the mining areas of nineteenth century Bendigo. While few remnants of the early alluvial phase of mining survive the present road patterns, street patterns and several buildings still include elements which suggest different phases in the history of Bendigo both before and after alluvial mining.
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Laurel Street Precinct - Physical Description 1
Key Sites- Former Golden Square Precinct
David Lanyon's Reawla, later Ellinbank, 6 Beech Street 1898
James Blair's House, 359 High Street, 1905C
Golden Square Methodist Church and Complex, 6 Laurel Street church 1870, 1873
St. Mark's Anglican Church, 29 Panton Street 1881
Robert Saunders' Commersdale, 56 Panton Street 1898
Laurel Street Precinct - Physical Description 2
Former Golden Square Precinct
Contributory Streets -
Beech, Edwardian, timber
High, Edwardian, timber
Laurel, Victorian, Edwardian, timber, brick
Panton, Victorian, timber, brick
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NORTH DEBORAH QUARTZ GOLD MINEVictorian Heritage Register H1353
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UNITING CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H1371
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NORTH DEBORAH MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'Boonderoo', House and OutbuildingsGreater Bendigo City
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'Riverslea' houseGreater Bendigo City
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1 Adam StreetYarra City
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