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45 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0121DRAFT - NOT YET APPROVED BY HERITAGE COUNCIL The former Union Bank in View Street, Bendigo was built in a Classical style 1876-7 to the design of architects, Smith and Johnson. It consists…
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CAPITAL THEATRE (FORMER MASONIC HALL)
50-56 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0119The Capital Theatre (former Masonic Hall) Bendigo, a cement rendered building designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Bendigo architects William Charles Vahland and Robert Getzschmann…
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60 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0793Dudley House was one of the first government offices erected in Bendigo's Camp Hill area following the discovery of gold in 1851. It was constructed in 1858-1859 by building contractors…
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8-32 WEEROONA AVENUE BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0781The former Bendigo Gas Works were established by the Bendigo Gas Company in 1860 and operated continuously until the introduction of natural gas in 1973. The Bendigo Gas Works were amongst…
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6 MELVILLE PARK DRIVE BERWICK, CASEY CITY
VHR H0653Edrington was built in 1906-07 for the West Australian pastoralist Samuel P McKay. It was designed by Rodney Alsop in 1906. It is a two-storey red brick example of the English vernacular…
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44 KELLY STREET BEVERIDGE, MITCHELL SHIRE
VHR H0940John Kelly's Former House at Beveridge, c.1860, a substantially intact example of vernacular timber construction. History Summary As a child, Ned Kelly (1854-1880) one of Australia's most…
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30 -36 EBDEN AVENUE BLACK ROCK, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0216Black Rock House at Black Rock was built for Charles Ebden, Victorian squatter, parliamentarian and leading citizen. He had been born in the Cape Colony, settled in Sydney in 1832, became a…
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17-23 SCOTT WYND BLAIRGOWRIE, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H0292The single-storey villa with tower (c.1870s, is asymmetrically arranged with a gabled wing to each face. Construction is of random- coursed limestone with a slate roof, timber verandah and…
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WALLACES TRACK NELSE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1616Wallaces hut was built in 1889 and is probably the oldest surviving hut on the high plains of north-east Victoria. It was built in six weeks by Irish immigrant brothers Arthur, William and…
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14 FEDERATION STREET BOX HILL, WHITEHORSE CITY
VHR H0720The Box Hill Brickworks had their origins in the boom years of the 1880s. In 1884 a prospectus was issued for the Haughton Park Brick Company Ltd., Box Hill, proposing to produce machine and…
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1-3 PARK STREET BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE
VHR H1921Bright Court House is a single storey brick building constructed as a court of petty sessions for the Buckland goldfields in 1861 to a design by the Public Works Department architect JJ…
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17 BLACK STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0724The Former Congregational Church, Black Street, Brighton was constructed in 1875 to the design of architect Charles Webb. The church was constructed by builder jams Bonham on the site of a…
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38 BLACK STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0126Spurling House, Brighton was built in 1889 for Phillis Spurling to a highly innovative design by Canadian-born, Sydney architect, John Horbury Hunt. It is the only known example of his work…
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15 ST ANDREWS STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0124The 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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81 SOUTH ROAD BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0621Kiora 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…
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201 WERE STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0125SOURCE: REPORT TO MINISTER STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Chevy Chase and a sister residence Ratho (now the St John of God hospital) were erected by two business partners. Built in 1881 Chevy…
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BRIGHTON BEACH RAILWAY STATION
1 ESPLANADE BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H1077The Brighton Beach Railway Station was built in 1889 by contractor Donald Swanson to drawings prepared by George Sims, Senior Draughtsman, Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, Victorian Railways…
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3210 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0700George Francis Morris (1834-1910) was one of the greatest of Victoria's nineteenth century vignerons. In 1904 his property, Fairfield,was described as the country's largest vineyard and…
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3221 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0698Olive Hills comprises a large country homestead and complex of related farm buildings. The homestead was constructed in 1886 for Hugh Fraser, a Scot who had worked at the Docker's Bontharambo…
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130 BARKLY STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0594The single-storey bluestone cottage at 130 Barkly Street, Brunswick, is significant as an early example of a working man's cottage in an area distinguished by its association with Melbourne's…
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BRUNSWICK FIRE STATION AND FLATS
24 BLYTH STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0916The Brunswick fire station and flats, designed by the architectural firm of Seabrook and Fildes in 1936, the builders being 7 Mann PLl and opened in 1937, are historically and architecturally…
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189 BRUNSWICK ROAD BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0665189 Brunswick Road, Brunswick is the westernmost of a row of two pairs of pre-fabricated iron cottages constructed in 1854 by the architect James Blackburn junior. They were built for the…
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1-17 COLEBROOK STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0705This substantial complex of three bluestone grainstores was erected between 1888 and 1891 for Donald Melville, a prominent local wool and grain merchant and Member of Parliament. In 1911,…
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72-106 DAWSON STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0703A portion of the original No 2 works of the Former Hoffman Brickworks, Dawson Street, Brunswick, including two Hoffman kilns, a remnant chimney from a third Hoffman kiln, a large brick press…
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10 GLENLYON ROAD BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0129Christ Church in Glenlyon Road, Brunswick is a stuccoed brick structure of cruciform plan with a detached campanile. The building was built in stages between 1857 and 1875. The nave was…
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Portland
VHR S141The barque Constant parted from its anchors during a gale at Portland and was driven ashore. Later investigation found that the anchor stocks had broken.
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Ships Graveyard, Outside Port Phillip Heads Area, Bass Strait
VHR S142The SS Coogee is historically significant for its working life in a variety of roles for nearly 40 years, serving as a Port Phillip excursion steamer, Bass Strait passenger ship, cable repair…
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Waratah Bay
VHR S143The Coquette was engaged in recovering anchors and chains used in salvaging the barque Drumblair in Waratah Bay. During the recovery operation, one of the large anchors struck the side of the…
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Corsair Rock, Point Nepean, Port Phillip Heads
VHR S144The Corsair is historically significant as the wreck of a Port Phillip Pilot vessel, and for naming Corsair Rock at the entrance of Port Phillip Heads.
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Ninety Mile Beach, west of Lakes Entrance
VHR S145The County Antrim is significant as an example of an inbound international shipwreck. It was one of the last international ships to be lost on the Gippsland coast.
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Ships Graveyard, Outside Port Phillip Heads Area, Bass Strait
VHR S146The SS Courier was built for Huddart Parker Ltd for the Port Phillip excursion trade. It was also built as an armed auxiliary of the Victorian Navy. After 40 years carrying passengers on the…
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Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip Bay
VHR S147Vessel supposed to have foundered in Hobsons Bay in July 1873, although registry kept open until 13 Dec. 1875 in the hope that the wreck would turn up. It was never found. (UID52) Purchased…
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Rye Back Beach, Point Nepean
VHR S148The wreck of the Craigburn is archaeologically significant for its remains of a typical 19th century iron sailing barque. As a dive site set amongst typically spectacular Mornington Peninsula…
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Tarwin Bay, near Cape Liptrap
VHR S149Built in Canada, the schooner Cremona was carrying cargo from Launceston to Melbourne when it was driven ashore in Tarwin Bay by a strong gale.
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Great Glennie Island, Wilsons Promontory
VHR S150The Curlew was a New Zealand-built scow, a distinctive type of broad, flat-bottomed sailing vessel that evolved for use in shallow water and for crossing dangerous bars at river mouths. The…
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Mouth of the Snowy River at Marlo
VHR S151The Curlip was a small paddle steamer that worked on the Snowy River towing barges and carrying cargo. Vessels such as the Curlip were an important link in the economic development of a once…
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Dromana, Port Phillip Bay
VHR S152The wreck of the Cygnet is significant as an early Australian-built ship. It is typical of the fleet of small coastal schooners and ketches which traded between the ports of Victoria and…
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Bass Strait, off Phillip Island
VHR S153The Coramba is socially and historically significant, as one of Victoria's worst shipwreck tragedies in living memory. Relatives of those who were lost are still alive, and the tragedy…
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Swan Island, Port Phillip Bay
VHR S154The Countess of Hopetoun is historically significant as the last vessel to be built for the Victorian naval force. It is also significant for the vessel's role in patrolling Port Phillip Bay…
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Swan Island, Port Phillip Bay
VHR S156Historically significant as Victoria's first true torpedo boat
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Ships Graveyard, Outside Port Phillip Heads Area, Bass Strait
VHR S157Further research is required before the Corio s significance can be assessed.
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Reclaimed Land, Newport, Port Phillip Bay, Yarra River entrance
VHR S163Potentially historically significant as example of convict hulk. Archaeological significance could be limited due to ships being broken up. A the time of the first gold rushes, many vessels…
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Bass Strait, disappeared between Gabo Island and Melbourne
VHR S164The ketch Dauntless was typical of the many small sailing vessels that once worked on the Victorian coast. In 1888 the Dauntless disappeared on a voyage from Gabo Island to Melbourne.
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Ships Graveyard, Commonwealth Area No.3, Bass Strait
VHR S165D. McLennan - Steel Steam Dredge built in Leyden, Holland in 1912. Purchased by the Melbourne Harbour Trust and brought into commission in 1925. The dredge was capable of dredging to 59 feet…
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Queenscliff, Port Phillip Bay, near Swan Bay
VHR S166Historically significant as an example of an early 'sail trader' which were the lifeline of early settlers around Port Phillip Bay, and often became household names (Watson 1981, 17)
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Point Lonsdale, Port Phillip Heads
VHR S167Historically significant as an example of an early well-known timber trader
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Sandridge, Port Melbourne, Port Phillip Bay
VHR S168Berthed at Old Pier, Sandridge, cargo only partly discharged. During night severely buffeted against wharf by gale. So severely damaged, the cutter sank and broke up in the heavy seas. A…
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Lakes Entrance
VHR S170The Despatch has social and historic significance for the role it played in the development of Gippsland, providing passenger and cargo transport to Gippsland ports, including the lime port…
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Port Albert Bar
VHR S171Schooners of this type traded between Hobart, Port Phillip and Port Albert. Cargos were usually typical of the small vessels operating in this trade. Namely; From Port Albert - Cattle and…