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MELBOURNE TOWN HALL AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
90-130 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0001Construction 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 AUGUSTINES CATHOLIC CHURCH AND FORMER SCHOOL
635-653 BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0002The original land grant of 2 acres was made to the Church in 1850 in the area bounded by Spencer and Collins Streets. The first St Augustines was a timber building erected on the site in…
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486-492 ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0003The first Baptist service in the colony was held in 1838 in a tent on the site where the Regent Theatre now stands. The land for the first chapel on this site was bought from the Crown in…
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122 -136 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0004A small chapel stood on this site from 1841 following the arrival of the Rev William Wakefield in 1838. Tasmanian merchant and pastoralist Henry Hopkins had asked the Colonial Missionary…
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140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0005The Rev. James Forbes who arrived from Scotland to minister in the colony held his first service on 3 February, 1838. Rev. Forbes' first church was a temporary wooden building at the west…
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170-174 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0006The first Baptist service in the colony was held in 1838 in a tent on the site where the Regent Theatre now stands. The Baptist Church obtained a grant for their present site in 1845 and…
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FORMER PRESBYTERIAN UNION MEMORIAL CHURCH COMPLEX
49-61 CURZON STREET AND 2-22 ELM STREET AND 579-589 QUEENSBERRY STREET NORTH MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0007The North Melbourne Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854, the opening services being held on 29 October. On this land an iron school room donated by the denominational schools board was…
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ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL PRECINCT
2-20 GISBORNE STREET AND 2-60 CATHEDRAL PLACE AND 371-449 ALBERT STREET AND 7-9 LANSDOWNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0008The 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
453-479 ALBERT STREET AND 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0009The 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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408-434 QUEENSBERRY ST AND 204-208 CHETWYND STREET AND 147-177 HOWARD NORTH MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0010St Mary's Church of England, now known as St Mary's Anglican Church, situated at 163 Howard Street was erected in stages between 1858 and 1868, with the official church opening occurring in…
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419-437 KING STREET AND 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0011St 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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118-148 LONSDALE STREET AND 117-147 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0012The Wesley Church and Wesley Mission Victoria Complex in Lonsdale Street consists of ten buildings including: The Church (1858); The Manse (1859); and The School House (1859) all designed by…
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326 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0013On 15 May 1839 Patrick Geoghegan arrived in Melbourne to take up the position of priest of the newly formed parish of Port Phillip. The land on which St Francis Church stands was granted in…
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349-371 LYGON STREET AND 221-239 PALMERSTON STREET AND 2-34 KEPPEL STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0014In 1866 St Jude's Church was a temporary wooden structure erected for worship. From 1866-67 the chancel, four bays of the nave, and vestry of the current church were erected to the designs…
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22-36 PARLIAMENT PLACE AND 65-75 CATHEDRAL PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0015The German Lutheran congregation has occupied the site continuously since 1853 when it was granted three quarters of an acre of land by Governor La Trobe. The first church, built in 1854 by…
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169-199 RATHDOWNE STREET AND 2-40 PELHAM STREET AND 154-184 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0016WHEA AREA OF GREATER SENSITIVITY The Church of the Sacred Heart Complex comprises the former St Georges Church and School, the former Church of the Sacred Heart (now Our Lady of Lebanon),…
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97-105 RATHDOWNE STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0017WHEA AREA OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE The former residence was erected in 1868-69 by Downie and Sturgess as the manse for St Andrews Presbyterian Church which was established on the site in…
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198-202 FLINDERS STREET AND 24-40 SWANSTON STREET AND 197-205 FLINDERS LANE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0018In 1848 at the request of the newly arrived Charles Perry, first Bishop of Melbourne, Superintendent C J La Trobe signed an Order-in-Council granting the present site of St Paul's Cathedral…
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321-369 ST KILDA ROAD AND 345 ST KILDA ROAD AND 93-151 DOMAIN STREET AND 2-124 BROMBY STREET AND 1-99 DOMAIN ROAD MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0019From 1850 the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, Bishop Perry made requests to the Superintendent of Port Phillip, Charles La Trobe for a site for an Anglican school, but the present site was not…
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256-278 VICTORIA PARADE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0020Cathedral College was formerly known as Christian Brothers College, 'Parade'. The Christian Brothers commenced work at St Francis's school in 1868. In 1869 the site in Victoria Parade was…
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 871-945 SWANSTON STREET PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0021Newman College was founded by the Roman Catholic Church in Victoria and named after the English scholar and churchman, John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890). In the mid-nineteenth century a…
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88-90 BOURKE STREET AND 162 EXHIBITION STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0022The London Chartered Bank of Australia was founded in 1852 by Duncan Dunbar and other leading English merchants and financiers. Its head office was in Cannon Street, London. In 1859 the…
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331 - 339 BOURKE STREET AND 148 - 150 ELIZABETH STREET AND 308-316 LITTLE COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0023The Royal Arcade, which extends from Bourke Street through to Little Collins Street, was erected in 1869 for Messrs. Staughton and Spensley. Charles Webb was the architect and gained the…
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FORMER CARLTON AND UNITED BREWERY
160 VICTORIA STREET AND SWANSTON STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0024In 1858 Rosenberg and Company founded a brewery at 24 Bouverie Street, North Melbourne and traded as the North Melbourne Brewery. This enterprise lasted for little over twelve months and in…
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12-16 BANK PLACE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0025On 9 May 1894 a group of 18 professional musicians, amateur players and music lovers from professions gathered at the Cafe Continental in the Block Arcade to discuss forming a new club. Ten…
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