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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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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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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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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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22 LE CATEAU STREET PASCOE VALE SOUTH, Moreland City
VHR H0138Wentworth 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…
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1-55 GARDEN STREET EAST GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
VHR H0185A 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…
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275 MOORABOOL STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0186The 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…
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21 COPPIN GROVE HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
VHR H0195The 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…
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1 BURGUNDY STREET HEIDELBERG, BANYULE CITY
VHR H0197The 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…
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51 OVERNEWTON ROAD KEILOR, BRIMBANK CITY
VHR H0200Overnewton, 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…
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16 COMO AVENUE SOUTH YARRA, Stonnington City
VHR H0205Como 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…
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21 ST GEORGES ROAD TOORAK, Stonnington City
VHR H0207Toorak 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…
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91 BENTINCK STREET and 93A BENTINCK STREET and 93B BENTINCK STREET and 1-1R JULIA STREET PORTLAND, GLENELG SHIRE
VHR H0237In 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…
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33 BENTINCK STREET PORTLAND, Glenelg Shire
VHR H0239The 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…
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41-43 BANK STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0247Whalers 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…
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1 CAMPBELL STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire
VHR H0248Whalers 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…
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8 COX STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0252Emoh 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…
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40 GIPPS STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire
VHR H0253Captain 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…
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5 SACKVILLE STREET PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire
VHR H0254Motts 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…
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543-555 PRINCES HIGHWAY PORT FAIRY, Moyne Shire
VHR H0255Talara 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,…
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165 BLANDS ROAD YARRAM, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0256Hawthorn 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…
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28-32 MANOR STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H0264The 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…
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3320 MIDLAND HIGHWAY LETHBRIDGE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
VHR H0266Moranghurk 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…
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4 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H0267The Old Swan Inn including the buildings and outbuildings (interiors and exteriors); archaeological deposits, features and artefacts, including the ford and track; plantings, garden features…
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490 SLATE QUARRY ROAD MEREDITH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
VHR H0268Darra, originally known as Durdiwarrah pastoral station, was licensed with 24,000 acres to Charles Augustus Von Steiglitz in 1842. Charles Augustus Von Steiglitz, who arrived in Port Phillip…
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