COLLINGWOOD TOWN HALL

140 HODDLE STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

Built in 1885-90 to a design of Melbourne architect, George Johnson, the Collingwood Town Hall complex comprises town hall, library, municipal offices, court house and post office, all…

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…

BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…

DUDLEY HOUSE

60 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

Dudley 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…

CRESWICK TOWN HALL AND FORMER MUNICIPAL OFFICES

70-72 ALBERT STREET CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The Creswick Town Hall and Municipal Offices were constructed as one building in 1876, thirteen years after the creation of the Borough of Creswick. The design of the building was the subject…

FORMER CRESWICK GOLD OFFICE

87 ALBERT STREET (REAR) CRESWICK, Hepburn Shire

The Former Creswick Gold Office and Sub-Treasury was built in 1858 to a design by the Public Works Department. Its architect was CG Ross and its construction followed shortly after the…

FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

2 LESLIE STREET and 41 MURRAY ESPLANADE ECHUCA, CAMPASPE SHIRE

Echuca developed as an important port from the early 1850s, when Henry Hopwood established a crossing place there. The Echuca Customs House was constructed in 1884 to administer customs…

SHACKELLS BOND STORE

43 MURRAY ESPLANADE ECHUCA, Campaspe Shire

Known originally as the "Hall of Commerce" the bond store was built between 1858 and 1859 by a local builder, W Moore for the importers Morgan and Mackintosh to replace an earlier timber…

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…

TRUSTEES CHAMBERS

8 MALOP STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

Built for the Colonial Bank of Australasia in 1857, the former Trustees Chambers building is a two storey bluestone structure with rendered front facade, designed by the Geelong architects,…

FORMER PORT OF MELBOURNE AUTHORITY BUILDING

29-31 MARKET STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The Former Port of Melbourne Authority Building is a nine storey structure erected by Hansen and Yuncken in 1929-1931 to a design by Sydney Smith, Ogg and Serpell. The base and entrance…

FORMER RECORDS OFFICE

287-297 QUEEN STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The former Records Office was built in 1900-1904 to the design of SE Bindley, District Architect of the Public Works Department. The contractor was Bartley Dinsmore. It was originally built…

POLICE HEADQUARTERS COMPLEX

336-376 RUSSELL STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The former Police Headquarters Complex was built in stages between 1940 and 1943 to the design of Public Works Department architect Percy Everett. The construction is reinforced concrete…

FORMER VICTORIAN RAILWAY HEADQUARTERS

33-67 SPENCER STREET DOCKLANDS, MELBOURNE CITY

The former Victorian Railways Administrative Headquarters were opened in 1893. They were built by James Moore to the design of the Victorian Railways Department Engineering Office. The…

TREASURY RESERVE PRECINCT

3 TREASURY PLACE and ST ANDREWS PLACE and MACARTHUR STREET and 2 TREASURY PLACE EAST MELBOURNE and SPRING STREET and 1 TREASURY PLACE and 1 MACARTHUR PLACE MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The Treasury Reserve containing Victorian government offices is a triangle of land on the eastern fringe of central Melbourne, bounded by Treasury Place, Spring Street, Macarthur Street, St…

PARLIAMENT HOUSE (INCLUDING GROUNDS, WORKS AND FENCES)

110-160 SPRING STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

Parliament House is a classical style building with the plan based on the layout of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster. It has a central entrance through a vestibule and shared hall…

MELBOURNE TOWN HALL AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

90-130 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

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…

FORMER ROYAL MINT

280-318 WILLIAM STREET and 391-429 LATROBE STREET and 388-426 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The Former Royal Mint was designed by John James Clark of the Public Works Office. Design work began in 1869 and it was built during 1871-72 by the contractors William Murray and Company of…

ARMYTAGE HOUSE

263 PAKINGTON STREET NEWTOWN, Greater Geelong City

The Hermitage was upon completion in 1860 one of the finest Colonial Regency style mansion houses in Victoria, evocatively recalling the architecture of Van Diemens Land of the 1830s. The…

IMMIGRATION DEPOT

6 DENISON STREET PORT ALBERT, WELLINGTON SHIRE

From the early 1840s when Gippsland first opened up to pastoral settlement labour supply had always been a problem. With relatively rapid development following the Omeo gold rushes, this…

JONES BOND STORE

1 RIVERSIDE QUAY SOUTHBANK, MELBOURNE CITY

The Jones Bond Store was a large complex of store buildings, the first being constructed on the site around 1865. The extant registered buildings are Stores B and C and building No. 11.…

CROWN LAND OFFICE

4 NAPIER STREET ST ARNAUD, Northern Grampians Shire

'The discovery of gold at St Arnaud in 1855 led to the survey of a township the following year. As the town developed through the 1860s, a number of public buildings were erected. The borough…

FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

2 FOORD STREET WAHGUNYAH, INDIGO SHIRE

The old Wahgunyah Customs House was erected in 1886 by the Public Works Department and is almost identical to the Echuca Customs House (1884). The single storey structure in exposed…

FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

128 NELSON PLACE and 18-34 SYME STREET WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay City

The Williamstown Customs House, erected in 1873-75 as the second customs house at Williamstown, reflects the important role of Williamstown as a major Melbourne port where large vessels were…