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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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84-122 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0027The elevated site for Bishopscourt was selected by BishopPerry,firstBishop of Melbourne, in 1848. Tenders for Bishopscourt werecalledbyarchitects Newson and Blackburn in 1849. The site was…
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202-206 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0028The residence at 206 Clarendon Street was erected by R. Jones for J. Gray in 1856. The architect was Osgood Pritchard. The original two storeyed building comprised twelve rooms and was…
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208-212 CLARENDON STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0029Clarendon Terrace was erected in 1856-57 by Robert Huckson for Charles Lister, a wine and spirit merchant and brewer. The architect was Osgood Pritchard. The building was later owned by the…
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36-50 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0030The Melbourne Club was established in 1838. Squatters predominated in its early membership suggesting that the impetus for the founding of the club came from country people needing somewhere…
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394-398 COLLINS STREET and 73-83 QUEEN STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0033The Bank of Australasia was founded in Sydney in 1835. It quickly opened branches in Hobart and Launceston, and then in Melbourne in 1838. Due to vigorous growth in the Melbourne economy,…
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502 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City
VHR H0044The foundation stone of St Andrew's Kirk, Ballarat was laid in 1862 and construction of the bluestone building with freestone detailing was completed in 1864, on the corner of Sturt and…
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SPRING STREET and MACARTHUR STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0047The Gordon Reserve is a small triangle of land bounded by Spring Street and Macarthur Street, containing the Stanford Fountain (1870), the Gordon of Khartoum Memorial (1889), the Adam…
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