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.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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

GLENFERRIE PRIMARY SCHOOL (PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1508)

78-98 MANNINGTREE ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY

School No 1508 first opened in 1875 in the Wesleyan Church Hall in Burwood Road, and the new school, designed by the Education Department architect Henry Bastow and built by James Bonham for…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1566

65-71 MUNDY STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Gravel Hill Primary School, constructed in 1875, is significant in being an essentially intact example of a school design derived from the competition of 1872. Gravel Hill Primary School…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467

333-365 MALVERN ROAD and 21, 22 & 23 CROMWELL PLACE SOUTH YARRA, STONNINGTON CITY

Primary School No.1467, or the former Hawksburn Primary School, was built in 1874 to a competition-winning design by Crouch and Wilson. The original school building was remodelled in 1924…

FORMER KERRIE PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.1290

7 CHEROKEE ROAD KERRIE, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

The former Kerrie Primary School No. 1290 was opened as a non-vested Rural School known as the Railway Steam Saw Mills School in or before 1870. The Education Department took over the school…

TOWER HILL COMMON SCHOOL

79 HIGH STREET KOROIT, Moyne Shire

The former common school was once known as the Tower Hill Lake National School No.618 and from 1873 as the Koroit State School No.618. It opened in November 1857. It is now used…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2093

30 MONTE STREET NERRINA, BALLARAT CITY

Gold was discovered at Nerrina, originally called Little Bendigo, in 1851. The town was later renamed, due to confusion with Bendigo, but the school retained the original name of the town.…

LITTLE HAMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1700

113 GLENLYON-LITTLE HAMPTON ROAD LITTLE HAMPTON, HEPBURN SHIRE

Little Hampton Primary School No.1700, built in 1876, is architecturally significant in being one of only a few of the Education Department "80-type" timber schools extant within the…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.744

190 WIEGARDS ROAD LOCKWOOD, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Lockwood Primary School opened as a Common School on 8 February 1864 with an enrolment of 29 children. The present school was constructed in 1865 to a design by local architect, Robert…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2120

17 JACKSON STREET LONG GULLY, Greater Bendigo City

Long Gully Primary School, constructed in 1879, is significant as a particularly good representative example of the work of Henry Bastow in response to climatic conditions. The School…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2162

18 SMITH STREET and 15 GROVE ROAD LORNE, SURF COAST SHIRE

Lorne Primary School No.8675 (formerly No.2162) was constructed in local freestone with a slate roof in 1879. It consisted of a single room of 24x16 feet. The 1879 building was constructed…