SCOTS CHURCH

140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The 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…

ST PETERS EASTERN HILL PRECINCT

453-479 ALBERT STREET and 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

The first Anglican services in East Melbourne were held in 1842 by the Revd John Yelverton Wilson in a workshop at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street. Charles Laing was appointed…

ST JAMES OLD CATHEDRAL

419-437 KING STREET and 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

St 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…

ST FRANCIS CATHOLIC CHURCH

326 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

On 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…

ST ANDREWS CHURCH PRECINCT

15 ST ANDREWS STREET BRIGHTON, Bayside City

The 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…

WENTWORTH HOUSE

22 LE CATEAU STREET PASCOE VALE SOUTH, Moreland City

Wentworth House at Pascoe Vale, known as La Rose during the nineteenth century, was built from c1842 for Dr Farquhar McCrae. He was the brother-in-law of Georgiana McCrae, who made several…

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…

CHRIST CHURCH

275 MOORABOOL STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The first church built for the Anglican Church in Geelong, Christ Church was opened in 1847. The foundation stone was laid in 1843 by the Bishop of Australia, William Broughton, who was…

INVERGOWRIE

21 COPPIN GROVE HAWTHORN, Boroondara City

The first section of Invergowrie, then known as Burwood, was commenced in about 1846 for James Palmer (later Sir), the first Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Council. Extensions were…

ST JOHNS ANGLICAN CHURCH

1 BURGUNDY STREET HEIDELBERG, BANYULE CITY

The founding of St.John's church is closely linked with the beginning of Melbourne town and the records contain fascinating descriptions of the varied life in that town and in the village of…

OVERNEWTON

51 OVERNEWTON ROAD KEILOR, BRIMBANK CITY

Overnewton, located in Keilor, comprises the original homestead built in 1849 with substantial additions made in 1859, and associated outbuildings and structures including the butchery and…

COMO HOUSE

16 COMO AVENUE SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City

Como House, a large white mansion prominently sited on a South Yarra hill overlooking the Yarra River, consists of a central block built c. 1855, flanked on the west by a kitchen wing dating…

TOORAK HOUSE

21 ST GEORGES ROAD TOORAK, Stonnington City

Toorak House was built c1850-51 for the wealthy Melbourne merchant James Jackson, who died in 1851 and never occupied the house, which was the finest in the colony at that time. The…

LONDON INN

91 BENTINCK STREET and 93A BENTINCK STREET and 93B BENTINCK STREET and 1-1R JULIA STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE

In December 1800, Lieutenant James Grant on board the Lady Nelson sighted a wide bay which he named Portland Bay after a Secretary of State, the Duke of Portland. The bay had an abundance of…

FORMER STEAMPACKET HOTEL

33 BENTINCK STREET PORTLAND, Glenelg Shire

The Steam Packet Inn, Portland, is a double-storey timber building with a symmetrical facade. It was built in 1841-42 from timber that was most likely shipped to Portland from Van Diemens…

CALEDONIAN HOTEL

41-43 BANK STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE

Whalers and sealers working out of Launceston had been visiting the coastal areas around Port Fairy and Portland areas throughout the 1830s and some had set up camps and huts during their…

MERRIJIG INN

1 CAMPBELL STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire

Whalers and sealers had been visiting and working the coastal areas around Port Fairy and Portland areas throughout the 1830s. John Griffiths from Launceston set up a bay whaling station on…

EMOH

8 COX STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE

Emoh is a single storey stone residence of six principal rooms, part dating from as early as 1849, but mostly from the early 1850s, and subsequently much altered and extended, notably after…

CAPTAIN JOHN MILLS HOUSE

40 GIPPS STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire

Captain John Mills' House is located on a slight rise in what is now Gipps Street, Port Fairy, the street in the town grid aligned with the River Moyne. The earliest, middle section of the…

MOTTS COTTAGE

5 SACKVILLE STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire

Motts Cottage, named after the owner and occupant, Sarah Jane Mott from 1918 until 1944, is located within the main street grid of Port Fairy. The Mott family worked as fishermen, boatmen…

TALARA

543-555 PRINCES HIGHWAY PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire

Talara is located on a rise beside the road to Portland a short distance outside Port Fairy and, with its setting and views, can be described as a villa. The first section, a single-storey,…

HAWTHORN BANK

165 BLANDS ROAD YARRAM, WELLINGTON SHIRE

Hawthorn Bank is a farmhouse complex (now in a ruinous state) apparently constructed in three main stages. The construction dates of the various stages are not known, though the earliest…

THE MANOR HOUSE

28-32 MANOR STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

The exploration of Hamilton Hume and William Hilton Hovell into inland New South Wales and Victoria on route to the Port Phillip District in 1824-25 and the favourable reports of the land…

MORANGHURK

3320 MIDLAND HIGHWAY LETHBRIDGE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Moranghurk is the remains of a large pastoral property originally called Morangourke, located on the Moorabool River near Lethbridge. The first squatters to occupy the run were the partners…

OLD SWAN INN

4 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Fyansford, located at the junction of the Barwon and the Moorabool rivers, was named after Captain Foster Fyans, who had been stationed here as police magistrate in 1837. The ford provided a…