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MELBOURNE TOWN HALL AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
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Construction of the existing Melbourne Town Hall began in 1867 on the site of the first Town Hall at the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets. Architects Reed and Barnes won a competition…
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ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL PRECINCT
You must log in to shortlist items.2-20 GISBORNE STREET and 2-60 CATHEDRAL PLACE and 371-449 ALBERT STREET and 7-9 LANSDOWNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The site on which St Patricks Cathedral now stands was part of a five acre government grant to the Catholic Church given over the years 1848-53. The western section of the site was set aside…
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ST PETERS EASTERN HILL PRECINCT
You must log in to shortlist items.453-479 ALBERT STREET and 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The first Anglican services in East Melbourne were held in 1842 by theRevd John Yelverton Wilson in a workshop at the eastern end of LittleBourke Street. Charles Laing was appointed…
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You must log in to shortlist items.419-437 KING STREET and 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
St James Old Cathedral was constructed on a Crown grant site of 5 acres of land bounded by Collins, William and Bourke Streets with the foundation stone being laid on 9 November 1839 by…
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You must log in to shortlist items.MOUNT HOWITT WALKING TRACK HOWITT PLAINS, WELLINGTON SHIRE
The Vallejo Gantner Memorial Hut is an architect-designed hut in Victoria's high country, near Mount Howitt. It was designed in 1970 by David McGlashan, of architects McGlashan &…
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You must log in to shortlist items.430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative…
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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTRE
You must log in to shortlist items.12 CIVIC SQUARE CROYDON, Maroondah City
The health of mothers and infants became of increasing concern in the first decades of the twentieth century. The early baby health movement was driven by committed volunteers frustrated at…
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You must log in to shortlist items.HIGH STREET KOROIT, Moyne Shire
The Koroit Botanic Gardens is an outstanding, Guilfoyle inspired provincial botanic garden which includes trees and shrubberies, pathways; significant trees and the 1880 Guilfoyle plan. In…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.CHAPEL STREET and GREVILLE STREET PRAHRAN, Stonnington City
The Prahran Town Hall complex was constructed in stages over a number of years on land at the corner of Chapel and Greville Streets. The first municipal council was elected in 1856, the year…
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HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH COMPLEX
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The foundation stone for Holy Trinity Church, Coleraine was laid on 8 February 1865 by the Rev. Dr Francis Thomas Cusack Russell and the first service held on 4 November 1866. In 1850 the…
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You must log in to shortlist items.324 STRATHFIELDSAYE ROAD PERRY BRIDGE, WELLINGTON SHIRE
Strathfieldsaye was established as a cattle and sheep station by New South Wales grazier William O'Dell Raymond in 1848. Raymond was one of the first permanent settlers in Gippsland,…
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You must log in to shortlist items.973 ERCILDOUN ROAD ERCILDOUNE, Pyrenees Shire
Brothers Thomas and Somerville Learmonth founded Ercildoun in 1838. The brothers had been part of an unsuccessful exploration mission into the interior of the colony in 1837, and embarked on…
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You must log in to shortlist items.EYNESBURY ROAD and SPRINGHILL ROAD and SPRINGHILL ROAD EYNESBURY, MELTON CITY, WYNDHAM CITY
The Eynesbury homestead complex was established on land acquired by prominent pioneer pastoralist, Simon Staughton. Staughton built the first substantial homestead in 1845 at Exford Station,…
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You must log in to shortlist items.64-66 HENNA STREET and 224-230 KOROIT STREET WARRNAMBOOL, Warrnambool City
Christ Church complex, Warrnambool comprises the church, rectory, hall and school building and a stable, all enclosed by an extensive stone wall, with tennis courts and a pavilion in an…
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You must log in to shortlist items.220-226 COLLINS STREET and 91-107 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
The Manchester Unity Building was built in 1932 by Walter Cooper Pty Ltd. It was designed by the architect Marcus R Barlow to meet the corporate needs of the Manchester Unity Group, a…
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You must log in to shortlist items.200-202 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
Num Pon Soon Society Building is a two storey stuccoed brick building built in 1861 to the design of notable architects Knight and Kerr. It was built as a clubhouse for the Sam Yup Society…
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKS
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The Bacchus Marsh Express was founded by George Lane, a book binder, and the first issue was published on 7th July 1866. The second edition was published by the Bacchus Marsh Express Printing…
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MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND COLLECTION
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In March 1874 the first building of the Briagolong Mechanics Institute was officially opened; a red gum weatherboard building with a shingle roof. Although there is no known architect, the…
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YOUNG AND JACKSON'S PRINCES BRIDGE HOTEL
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Young and Jackson's Princes Bridge Hotel is an amalgamation of five separate buildings of two and three storeys. The original 1853 bluestone building was designed as a three-storey…
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GEORGIE'S HUT (CHINESE MARKET GARDEN)
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A Chinese market garden was established on Jeffcott Road in Donald during the late 1920s on a 10 acre plot of land leased by Low Boa Ling from a local farmer. The market garden operated…
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You must log in to shortlist items.14 LOWER ESPLANADE ST KILDA, Port Phillip City
The Palais Theatre, St Kilda was constructed in 1927 as the Palais Pictures, to a design by prominent Sydney-based theatre and cinema architect, Henry E. White. It was built on leased Crown…
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FORMER NEWPORT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS
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In 1884 the decision was made to erect a new workshop facility in an area of land between the Geelong Railway and the Williamstown Railway at Newport (the current Workshops site). Although…
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INTERLOCKING RAILWAY CROSSING GATES
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The railway through Yarraville, from Melbourne to Williamstown, opened in 1859, and a station was established at Yarraville in 1872. The station complex comprises a brick up-side station…
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You must log in to shortlist items.45 PARKSIDE DRIVE SHEPPARTON, GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY
The Bangerang Cultural Centre, originally known as the Aboriginal Keeping Place, was built as part of the International Village project in Shepparton. First conceived in 1974, the Keeping…
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