PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1181

2-38 VICTORIA AVENUE ALBERT PARK, PORT PHILLIP CITY

The design of the Albert Park Primary School building by Joseph Schneider won the competition for school buildings after the passing of the education act in1872. The school was built by…

EBENEZER MISSION

EBENEZER MISSION ROAD DIMBOOLA, Hindmarsh Shire

The Ebenezer mission site and its complex of buildings, footings and cemetery are of great social, historical, archaeological and architectural significance to the state of Victoria and are…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2634

9-23 DENSHAM ROAD ARMADALE, Stonnington City

Primary School No.2634 in Armadale consists of two buildings. The larger of the two is a single storey structure with tuckpointed brown brick walls with contrasting bands. It is believed…

AUBURN PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2948

51 RATHMINES ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, Boroondara City

The establishment of a Primary School in Auburn was the result of much lobbying on behalf of the families of the fast-growing Auburn district. Temporary accommodation was opened in 1889 and…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 4

118 BARNETT STREET AVOCA, Pyrenees Shire

Avoca Primary School was built in 1878 to provide accommodation for the growing number of children in the region. From the 1850s the growth of Avoca was greatly affected by the gold rush and…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.33

401 DANA STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

Ballarat, Dana Street Primary School No.33 was constructed in 1856 as the first National School in Ballarat West. It was designed by the prominent Geelong architectural firm of Backhouse and…

BEECHWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1560

JUNCTION ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The first school at Beechworth was a school opened in the Wesleyan chapel in January 1855. A small Church of England school opened in 1856 later to become Beechworth Grammar School. A new…

FORMER SUPREME COURT

10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

The former Supreme Court, Bendigo was constructed in 1857-58 by the Public Works Department for the Crown Law Department, necessitated by the decision to hold circuit court sessions in…

CAMP HILL CENTRAL SCHOOL NO.1976

50 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Camp Hill Central School was built in 1877 on the Police Camp site in Bendigo. Sixty six acres were set aside for police purposes here in 1852, providing the base for military and police…

FORMER STATE SCHOOL NO.46

11 SCHOOL LANE BULLA, Hume City

the 'The Bulla school precinct comprises the primary school and attached residence, a State School Endowment pine plantation on an adjoining parcel of land, and a suspension footbridge (1872)…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.461- FORMER BURWOOD SCHOOL

172 BURWOOD HIGHWAY BURWOOD, Whitehorse City

The original brick single room school at Burwood was built in 1865 on Crown Land granted to the Wesleyans in 1855. The classroom was extended in 1883, 1906 and 1935. The former Burwood…

FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 668

456 REMEMBRANCE DRIVE WINDERMERE, BALLARAT CITY

Primary School No.668, Western Highway, Cardigan, [456 Remembrance Drive Windermere] a brick school opened in 1883, as the Windermere Town School, to replace an earlier wooden building of…

FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2365

224 QUEENSBERRY STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Former Primary School No. 2365, Carlton, was designed by the Chief Architect of the Education Department Architecture Branch Henry Bastow and constructed in 1880-81. It was built by…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2605

201-231 RATHDOWNE STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

WHEA AREA OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE The Primary School at 215 Rathdowne Street, Carlton is an Italian Gothic style building built in 1884 with a hipped roof central pavilion buttressed either…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1360

183-185 GOLD STREET CLIFTON HILL, Yarra City

Primary School No.1360, in Gold Street, Clifton Hill, was opened in 1874. Built to a design of WH Ellerker, the two storey school was constructed of load bearing brick with a bluestone…

INFANT BUILDING AND SHELTER SHED, PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.484

83-85 BELL STREET COBURG, Moreland City

The new Board of Education, set up under the Common Schools Act of 1862, funded a new building in 1867 for Coburg beside the 1858 National School and the two became the Bell Street Common…

FORMER GROSVENOR COMMON SCHOOL

2-4 BOND STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

The former Grosvenor Common School was erected in 1863-64 for John Puckey, School Master, soon after the gazettal of the Common Schools Act 1862. The building consisted of a 36 x 40 foot…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1924

153-161 PRINCES WAY DROUIN, Baw Baw Shire

The first school was opened on this site in Drouin in 1877. In 1936 a small four classroom school building was constructed to replace buildings destroyed by fire that year, and since that…

FORMER YARRA PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1406

2-40 WEBB LANE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

The Former Yarra Park Primary School No.1406 was designed by prominent Melbourne architect Charles Webb. The west wing was completed in 1874 and the east wing in 1877. The builder was James…

FARADAY PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 797

1 FARADAY SCHOOL ROAD FARADAY, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

Faraday Primary School No.797 is a single-room school constructed of local granite in 1869. The building was designed by notable architect/engineer Thomas Bingham Muntz. It has a gable roof…

RESIDENCE

17 BELL STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY

FORMER NATIONAL SCHOOL

40-48 BELL STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY

The Former National School, Fitzroy, was opened by Robert Bell as a day school in 1855. The building was extended to the east in 1865. The school was sold to the Government in 1873 and…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.253

100 GEELONG ROAD FOOTSCRAY, MARIBYRNONG CITY

Footscray Primary School No.253 was first opened as a National School on 13 August 1860 in a single wooden classroom. A detached bluestone classroom was constructed in 1864-65 and completed…

FORMER FRANKLINFORD COMMON SCHOOL

WHYBROW STREET and MILL STREET FRANKLINFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Former Franklinford Common School building was erected in the mid-1860s as the result of local initiative for a new common school. Visually the building is dominated by the gable over the…

MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022

15 MYERS STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The Matthew Flinders School was built as the Flinders National Grammar School in Little Ryrie Street, Geelong in 1856-7. The initiative of a group of prominent citizens of Geelong in 1854 to…