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140 HIGH STREET PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0400The Prahran Mechanics Institute was established in 1854 when Prahran was a small hamlet surrounded by swampland. Mechanics Institutes were popular in their various communities as places where…
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184 - 192 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0501The Melbourne Athenaeum began as Melbourne's original Mechanic's Institute in 1842. The three-storey section facing Collins Street has a stuccoed facade with pilasters, label moulds, a…
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2-8 LA TROBE STREET AND 1-9 VICTORIA STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0373WORLD HERITAGE ENVIRONS AREA OF GREATER SENSITIVITY The Royal Society of Victoria, located on a triangular site at the northern edge of the city opposite the Carlton Gardens. The main…
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THE ATHENAEUM AND MEMORIAL HALL
62 MICHIE STREET ELMORE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1744The Elmore Athenaeum and Memorial Hall complex comprises the original 1869 building, the 1885 Athenaeum, the 1912 Supper Room and the 1924 Memorial Hall. The 1869 building was originally…
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304-328 SWANSTON STREET AND 179-181 LATROBE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1497The trustees for Melbourne's new public library were appointed in July 1853 and on 3 July the following year the foundation stone for the first section of building was laid. Opened in 1856,…
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FORMER BALLARAT EAST FREE LIBRARY
25-29 BARKLY STREET BALLARAT EAST, BALLARAT CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1493The Former Ballarat East Free Library is of significance for architectural, historical and social reasons. Established in 1862 it was amongst the earliest of Ballarat's social and educational…
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208-220 BANK STREET SOUTH MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0217South Melbourne Town Hall, originally known as Emerald Hill Town Hall until the name of the municipality was changed in 1883, was designed by Charles Webb to house the Emerald Hill Town…
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MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND FREE LIBRARY
CORNER KING STREET AND COWEN STREET TOONGABBIE, LATROBE CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0544The Toongabbie Mechanics Institute and Free Library was built in 1883. No architect is known to have been involved. The builders were Messrs Hollingsworth & Bosisto, carpenters. The…
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140 HODDLE STREET ABBOTSFORD, YARRA CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0140Built 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…
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408 WARRENHEIP STREET BUNINYONG, BALLARAT CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0488The former library at Buninyong was donated to the town by Robert Allan and erected for him prior to 1862 at a cost of £385 (including earthworks and two bridges). Allan, an engineer,…
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201 NAPIER STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0147The Fitzroy Town Hall was erected in two stages. The hall wing and a tower were designed by W.L. Ellis and built in 1873 by Nation Company. The second stage, designed by G. Johnson and…
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57 CONNESS STREET CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1326The Chiltern Athenaeum and former Town Hall is a single storey brick structure in the Conservative Classical style. The combined library and municipal office building was designed by the…
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FORMER BAIRNSDALE MECHANICS INSTITUTE
20 SERVICE STREET BAIRNSDALE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1284The former Bairnsdale Mechanics Institute is an Italian Renaissance styled, red brick building constructed in 1888-89. Although Thomas Swan, a local architect won an architectural competition…
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MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY
81 MOLLISON STREET KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1904In February 1855 a committee was formed to set up a mechanics institute in Kyneton. The government had reserved a 1½ acre site for a mechanics institute and experimental gardens. The first…
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STATE LIBRARY AND NATIONAL MUSEUM COMPLEX
304-328 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
Victorian Heritage Inventory
H7822-1081This place is included on the Victorian Heritage Inventory, for its potential to contain historical archaeological remains associated with the settlement and growth of early Melbourne. Under…
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Free Public Library, 55 Hesse Street, Queenscliff
55 Hesse Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
Queenscliffe Borough
Based on the Italian Renaissance, the combination of stucco and face-brick with the style adopted indicates a more direct influence from the English Queen Anne. The library is a successful…
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Former Free Library & Mechanics Institute, 168-172 Main Street, STAWELL
168-172 Main Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
Northern Grampians Shire
How is it significant? Why is it significant? The former Mechanics Institute building at 168-172 Main Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the architectural and visual…
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Navestock, 107 Hesse Street, Queenscliff
107 Hesse Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
Queenscliffe Borough
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009 Navestock is of high local historical significance as Queenscliff's first Mechanics Institute, as the site of…
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Brown Street HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire
Southern Grampians Shire
SIGNIFICANCE: »Part of the Municipal complex, the building has significance for its cultural associations as well as for its architecture. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Art Gallery Brown…
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LEONGATHA MECHANICS' INSTITUTE & FREE LIBRARY (FORMER)
10 MCCARTIN STREET, LEONGATHA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
South Gippsland Shire
The former Leongatha Mechanics' Institute Library & Billiard Room, designed by H.V. & A. Champion and constructed by Loring & Speers in 1911-12 at 10 McCartin Street,…
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192-228 William Street and 462-498 Little Bourke Street MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
National Trust
VHR H1477The Supreme Court Library is part of a complex of buildings known as the Melbourne Law Courts, occupying half a city block; William Street between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets. Smith…
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Access Office, part Carlton library
653 Rathdowne Street, CARLTON NORTH VIC 3054 - Property No 218065
Yarra City
Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Amess Street, Birdsall Place, Canning Street, Curtain Street, Davids Lane, Davis Street, Drummond Lane, Drummond Street, Earl…
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667 Rathdowne Street, CARLTON NORTH VIC 3054 - Property No 218070
Yarra City
Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Amess Street, Birdsall Place, Canning Street, Curtain Street, Davids Lane, Davis Street, Drummond Lane, Drummond Street, Earl…
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corner Winter and Pilleau Streets COLERAINE, Southern Grampians Shire
Southern Grampians Shire
The Coleraine Mechanics Institute is a single storey rendered brick building located at the corner of Winter and Pilleau Streets, two blocks south of the central activities area of…
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304 - 328 Swanston Street and 179 - 181 Latrobe Street, MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
National Trust
VHR H1497The trustees for Melbourne's new public library were appointed in July 1853 and on 3rd July the following year the foundation stone for the first section of building was laid. Opened in…