PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1181

2-38 VICTORIA AVENUE ALBERT PARK, PORT PHILLIP CITY

The design of the Albert Park Primary School building by Joseph Schneider won the competition for school buildings after the passing of the education act in1872. The school was built by…

EBENEZER MISSION

EBENEZER MISSION ROAD DIMBOOLA, Hindmarsh Shire

The Ebenezer mission site and its complex of buildings, footings and cemetery are of great social, historical, archaeological and architectural significance to the state of Victoria and are…

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…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 4

118 BARNETT STREET AVOCA, Pyrenees Shire

Avoca Primary School was built in 1878 to provide accommodation for the growing number of children in the region. From the 1850s the growth of Avoca was greatly affected by the gold rush and…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.33

401 DANA STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

Ballarat, Dana Street Primary School No.33 was constructed in 1856 as the first National School in Ballarat West. It was designed by the prominent Geelong architectural firm of Backhouse and…

BALLARAT SCHOOL OF MINES (FEDERATION UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA)

107 LYDIARD STREET SOUTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Ballarat School of Mines (Federation University Australia) on a site of approximately 2.8 hectares in Ballarat Central, including buildings, subterranean fabric, and landscape area.…

BEECHWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1560

JUNCTION ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The first school at Beechworth was a school opened in the Wesleyan chapel in January 1855. A small Church of England school opened in 1856 later to become Beechworth Grammar School. A new…

FORMER TECHNICAL COLLEGE

118-160 MCCRAE STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Bendigo Regional College of TAFE has developed over a number of years on land bounded by McCrae, Chapel, Hargreaves and Mundy Streets. In 1854 an acre site was secured by a Government…

FORMER SUPREME COURT

10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

The former Supreme Court, Bendigo was constructed in 1857-58 by the Public Works Department for the Crown Law Department, necessitated by the decision to hold circuit court sessions in…

CAMP HILL CENTRAL SCHOOL NO.1976

50 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Camp Hill Central School was built in 1877 on the Police Camp site in Bendigo. Sixty six acres were set aside for police purposes here in 1852, providing the base for military and police…

ST ANDREWS CHURCH PRECINCT

15 ST ANDREWS STREET BRIGHTON, Bayside City

The St Andrew's Church Precinct consists of a graveyard (1843), school house (1857), church (1857 and 1962), parish hall (1925), lych gate (post 1926), gate post (1842-50) and vicarage…

KIORA

81 SOUTH ROAD BRIGHTON, Bayside City

Kiora was built in 1891 at the very end of Melbourne's boom. It is an outstanding example of the boom style mansions characteristic of that hectic time. The first owner, and almost certainly…

FORMER STATE SCHOOL NO.46

11 SCHOOL LANE BULLA, Hume City

the 'The Bulla school precinct comprises the primary school and attached residence, a State School Endowment pine plantation on an adjoining parcel of land, and a suspension footbridge (1872)…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.461- FORMER BURWOOD SCHOOL

172 BURWOOD HIGHWAY BURWOOD, Whitehorse City

The original brick single room school at Burwood was built in 1865 on Crown Land granted to the Wesleyans in 1855. The classroom was extended in 1883, 1906 and 1935. The former Burwood…

FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 668

456 REMEMBRANCE DRIVE WINDERMERE, BALLARAT CITY

Primary School No.668, Western Highway, Cardigan, [456 Remembrance Drive Windermere] a brick school opened in 1883, as the Windermere Town School, to replace an earlier wooden building of…

ROSAVILLE

46 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Rosaville, at 46 Drummond Street, Carlton, was built in 1883 for Abraham Harris to the design of the architect Nahum Barnet. Rosaville, an exotic example of so-called boom style classicism,…

MEDLEY HALL

48 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Medley Hall was erected in 1893 for Mrs Leah Abrahams by the builder Richard Stockdale to the design of the architect Walter Scott Law. The elaborately decorated two storey rendered brick…

FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2365

224 QUEENSBERRY STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Former Primary School No. 2365, Carlton, was designed by the Chief Architect of the Education Department Architecture Branch Henry Bastow and constructed in 1880-81. It was built by…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2605

201-231 RATHDOWNE STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

WHEA AREA OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE The Primary School at 215 Rathdowne Street, Carlton is an Italian Gothic style building built in 1884 with a hipped roof central pavilion buttressed either…

FORMER SCHOOL OF MINES

27 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The foundation stone of the School of Mines, Castlemaine was laid on 18.12.1889 on the site of the old police court which had previously been used for classes. The architect was WC Vahland of…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1360

183-185 GOLD STREET CLIFTON HILL, Yarra City

Primary School No.1360, in Gold Street, Clifton Hill, was opened in 1874. Built to a design of WH Ellerker, the two storey school was constructed of load bearing brick with a bluestone…

INFANT BUILDING AND SHELTER SHED, PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.484

83-85 BELL STREET COBURG, Moreland City

The new Board of Education, set up under the Common Schools Act of 1862, funded a new building in 1867 for Coburg beside the 1858 National School and the two became the Bell Street Common…

FORMER GROSVENOR COMMON SCHOOL

2-4 BOND STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

The former Grosvenor Common School was erected in 1863-64 for John Puckey, School Master, soon after the gazettal of the Common Schools Act 1862. The building consisted of a 36 x 40 foot…