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202 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1347The Castlemaine Post Office was built in 1874-5 replacing an earlier post office constructed in 1857, both designed by the Public Works Department. The present post office was designed by…
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FORMER MOUNT ALEXANDER SILK WORM FARM
JOSEPH YOUNG DRIVE HARCOURT NORTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1348In 1872 Mrs Bladen Neill and the Victorian Ladies Sericultural Company established a silk worm farm on land at Mount Alexander, obtained through a grant from the Minister of Lands. The farm…
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HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL HALL
DAVY STREET TARADALE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1350The Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a rendered brick building situated in Davy Street, Taradale, was constructed in 1859 and replaced an earlier, 1856, timber church which became used as the…
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VINEYARD ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1351The Archbold (Chewton) Gold Treatment Works was erected c.1884 by Jeremiah Archbold who operated an assay and metallurgical business specialising in the treatment of gold-bearing ore. The…
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LISLES AND MANTONS GULLIES QUARTZ GOLD MINES
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1354The story of quartz mining in Lisles and Mantons gullies revolves around the working of three parallel reefs: Lisles, Mantons, and Braithwaites (or the Mount), all worked extensively by small…
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GARFIELD WATERWHEEL QUARTZ GOLD MINING SITE
NORTH STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1356Quartz reefs near the site were being worked as early as 1856. During the mid-1880s the reefs were being mined by the Garfield Company. In 1887, the company relocated their 23-head quartz…
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SOUTH GERMAN ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1357The Maldon Quartz Reefing Field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinary rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock containing the…
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MOUNT TARRENGOWER TUNNELLING COMPANY GOLD MINE
ANZAC HILL ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1358The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinary rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock mined put the…
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MAIN STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1361The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinarily rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock containing the…
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FORMER NEWSTEAD SHIRE CHAMBERS
116-118 MAIN ROAD CAMPBELLS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1367STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The former Newstead Shire Chambers on the Castlemaine-Guildford at Campbell's Creek was constructed in the 1860s as a toll house in the town. One…
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4-8 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1379The foundation stone for the Uniting Church, Castlemaine was laid by the Premier of Victoria, Sir James Patterson on June 22nd 1894 and the building was officially opened on 16th December…
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MUCKLEFIELD-YAPEEN ROAD MUCKLEFORD SOUTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1380STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Common School No. 1124 was built in Muckleford South in 1871, one of the last of the Common schools built before the 1872 Education Act. The…
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11 CHURCH STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1382STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The Maldon former Church of England Denominational School is a stone, brick, timber and iron roofed building located on a sloping site in Church…
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PATTERSON MEMORIAL DRINKING FOUNTAIN
30 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1388STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The Patterson Memorial Drinking Fountain was built in 1897 to commemorate Sir James Patterson, Member of Parliament for Castlemaine from 1870 to…
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TARADALE PUBLIC PARK, METCALFE-TARADALE ROAD TARADALE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1389On 19th May 1863 celebrations were held at Taradale to commemorate the marriage of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Victoria and Albert and future King Edward VII, to…
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FORMER MARKET HALL AND ROYAL OAKS
93 HIGH STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1390Maldon was proclaimed a municipality in August 1858 and one of its earliest projects was to commission the architect Arthur Hartley to design a market hall. The foundation stone was laid by…
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FORMER ROYAL HOTEL AND THEATRE
14-18 HIGH STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1391STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The original Royal Hotel was one of the first licensed in the area in 1854. The theatre was built in 1857 to replace an earlier structure. In 1862…
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8 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1392STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The foundation stone for Christ Church, Castlemaine was laid on February 24th 1854 by Anglican Bishop Perry but it was not completed until 1858.…
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CASTLEMAINE NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2051
274-276 BARKER STREET, CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1393STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Castlemaine had established a diverse industrial base which helped maintain prosperity and population in the 1870s after the easily won gold had…
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109 HIGH STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1394STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Maldon Primary School No 1254 was opened in 1873, operating at first at the premises of the previous church schools. A site for a new school was…
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BARKERS CREEK, OFF GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1400The Castlemaine Concrete Truss Foot Bridge was designed by Shire Engineer WT Sunderland and built in 1914. Sunderland was later to design a number of both public and private reinforced…
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MUCKLEFORD CEMETERY, MUCKLEFORD-WALMER ROAD MUCKLEFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1403In 1853, a Roads Act established toll-bars on roads throughout Victoria. The Act empowered District Road Boards (from 1854, the Central Roads Board) to collect fees on their boundaries to be…
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35 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1404Twenty-two gold wardens offices were built to service the administration of the 1855 and 1858 Gold Acts. The earlier offices were small, often prefabricated timber buildings of one or two…
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29 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1405The first court building on this site was built in 1858. Previously courts had operated from the old Courthouse in the Commissioners Camp. This courthouse was similar to the courthouse at…
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MOUNT TARRENGOWER LOOK-OUT TOWER
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1407In May 1923 a public meeting was convened by the Maldon Shire to investigate ways to develop the natural resources of the district in order to once more bring the town into prominence as an…