ALEXANDRA COURT HOUSE AND FORMER SHIRE OFFICES

38A DOWNEY STREET ALEXANDRA, MURRINDINDI SHIRE

The public offices at Alexandra are architecturally significant as an uncommon example of public works architecture, which incorporates a post office, shire offices and courthouse into a…

FORMER ARARAT SUB-TREASURY AND POST OFFICE

91 BARKLY STREET ARARAT, Ararat Rural City

The former Ararat Sub-Treasury and Post Office buildings are outstanding elements in the precinct of government buildings which now occupy the old police camp reserve. The former Sub-Treasury…

BEECHWORTH POST OFFICE

28A CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Beechworth Post Office was constructed in 1870, to a design by Peter Kerr, incorporating a tower dating from 1865 and other materials from an earlier post office building on the site. It…

FORMER TELEGRAPH OFFICE AND FAULDER WATSON HALL

208-210 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine telegraph office was one of four opened on the Sandhurst line in January 1857, the others being at Sandhurst, Kyneton and Gisborne. It was the first major public building…

CLUNES POST OFFICE

102 BAILEY STREET CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099…

FORMER ELSTERNWICK POST OFFICE

296 - 298 GLENHUNTLY ROAD and 1A AND 1B RIDDELL PARADE ELSTERNWICK, GLEN EIRA CITY

The Elsternwick Post Office was built in 1891 to the design of the Public Works Department under JH Marsden. The builder was Herbert H. Coulson. The office, complete with postmaster's…

FORMER NORTH FITZROY POST OFFICE

251 ST GEORGES ROAD FITZROY NORTH, Yarra City

The Former North Fitzroy Post Office was built for real estate agent Thomas Rogers c 1886-1887 and served as a land office until 1890. From 1890 until 1907 it was owned by the Standard…

FIRST CUSTOMS HOUSE

1-55 GARDEN STREET EAST GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

A square gothic timber pavilion reputedly prefabricated in Sydney c 1838 and erected in Geelong. Cladding is quirk bead weatherboards. The original thatch roof was replaced with shingles in…

FORMER TELEGRAPH STATION

83A RYRIE STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

The former Telegraph Station in Geelong was built in 1857-8 by builders Patterson and Bell, after the telegraph line between Melbourne and Geelong was constructed in 1854-5. It was the centre…

FORMER KEW POST OFFICE

186 HIGH STREET KEW, Boroondara City

The former Kew Post Office was built at the apex of a complex constructed to also accommodate a police station and court house. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…

GENERAL POST OFFICE

338-352 BOURKE STREET and 188-218 ELIZABETH STREET and 323-337 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The first General Post Office was built on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets in 1852, and was replaced by the current much grander building begun in 1859. A competition was held in…

FORMER MAIL EXCHANGE

672-696 BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

The Former Mail Exchange, completed in 1917, was designed by Commonwealth Home Affairs architect John Smith Murdoch. The seven storey, steel-framed building was constructed in a beaux-arts…

FORMER MONEY ORDER POST OFFICE AND SAVINGS BANK

318 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

The former Money Order Post Office and Savings Bank was constructed in 1890 to relieve the overcrowded facilities at the nearby General Post Office. It is a six storey building designed by…

FORMER OMEO POST OFFICE

155 DAY AVENUE OMEO, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Omeo post office was constructed in 1890 to designs prepared by the Public Works Dept ( the drawings were executed by A J MacDonald and authorised by JT Kelleher ) it is a single storey post…

FORMER SOUTH YARRA POST OFFICE

162 TOORAK ROAD SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City

The Former South Yarra Post Office is located on Toorak Road, on a restricted and precipitous site adjacent to the railway cutting. Designed in 1890 by Public Works Department architect, AJ…

'CARINYA' LADSONS STORE

2328 BEECHWORTH-WANGARATTA ROAD TARRAWINGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY

"Carinya", a two-storey brick residence and general store with an adjoining public hall, was built between 1862-67 for Thomas Taylor Ladson. The builders were Thos. Sheils and Jack Oliver.…

COURT HOUSE

161-165 FRANKLIN STREET TRARALGON, LATROBE CITY

The [Post Office and ]Court House is a major 19th century building in Traralgon located on a key site and retaining most of its original architectural details. It is of regional historic…

FORMER WALHALLA POST OFFICE AND RESIDENCE

MAIN ROAD WALHALLA, BAW BAW SHIRE

The former Walhalla Post Office and the Post Master's residence incorporated with it were built in 1885. The contractor was John Richmond. The design was prepared in 1884 for the Public Works…

FORMER KILMORE POST OFFICE

2 POWLETT STREET KILMORE, MITCHELL SHIRE

The Former Kilmore Post Office is a two-storey, coursed basalt rubble building which was designed in the Victorian Public Works Department under the supervision of William Wardell, probably…

BALLARAT POST OFFICE

2-6 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

The Ballarat Post Office is the third such building erected on the site since 1858. The earliest section, designed in Italianate palazzo style by the Public Works Department during William…

CAPE OTWAY LIGHTSTATION

1140 LIGHTHOUSE ROAD CAPE OTWAY, COLAC OTWAY SHIRE

The Cape Otway Lightstation was constructed in 1846-48 following the recommendation of the 1845 New South Wales Select Committee on Lighthouses in response to a number of shipping disasters…

FORMER SOUTH MELBOURNE POST OFFICE

195-207 BANK STREET SOUTH MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY

The former South Melbourne Post Office, built in 1912 is a single storey brick building designed in the Beaux-Arts style by Horace J MacKennal, Director of Works, Commonwealth Department of…

PARKVILLE POST OFFICE AND QUARTERS

69-73 FITZGIBBON STREET and 27-37 BAYLES STREET PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY

The Parkville Post Office and Quarters was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Public Works Department architects SE Brindley and SC Brittingham. The builder was JG McLean and the building…

FORMER COLLINGWOOD POST OFFICE

174-180 SMITH STREET COLLINGWOOD, Yarra City

The former Collingwood Post Office was established at 174-180 Smith Street in 1868 having been relocated from its previous location on the north side of Peel Street. The 2.5 metre deep facade…

FLEMINGTON POST OFFICE

2A WELLINGTON STREET FLEMINGTON, Moonee Valley City

Flemington Post Office was constructed in 1889/90 to a design by architect JR Brown, under the direction of J T Kelleher both of the Public Works Department Eastern District. The tower was…