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130 MOUNT ROAD ANAKIE, Greater Geelong City
Narada Homestead at Anakie was built in 1862 for pastoralist John Browne, a notable early settler in the Anakie district. It was designed by the Geelong architect John Young. Joseph Watts…
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You must log in to shortlist items.1 RIVERVIEW TERRACE BELMONT, Greater Geelong City
In 1836 pioneer Victorian settler Dr. Alexander Thomson, former medical officer with the Port Phillip Association, took up land at Geelong on the Barwon River. Kardinia, the two storey brick…
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You must log in to shortlist items.425-465 HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, Greater Geelong City
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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.67 HYLAND STREET FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY
The Fyansford Hotel, near the junction of the Barwon and Moorabool Rivers, marks one of the oldest river crossing places in Western Victoria. The hotel has important landmark associations…
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You must log in to shortlist items.42-52 and 100 LOWER PAPER MILLS ROAD FYANSFORD, Greater Geelong City
This industrial complex, which was constructed mainly during the late 1870s and which comprises the original mill buildings, manager's house (1878), a row of six workers’ cottages (1878), a…
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You must log in to shortlist items.140 APHRASIA STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
The Heights, 140 Aphrasia Street, Newtown, is a 1.13 hectare property with a number of 19th century buildings in a landscaped setting. The buildings include a partially prefabricated timber…
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You must log in to shortlist items.56-58 EASTERN BEACH ROAD GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Prefabricated in 1855 and constructed in 1856, Corio Villa is the first prefabricated cast iron house in Australia. The property is situated on the corner of Eastern Beach Road and Fitzroy…
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You must log in to shortlist items.2A GARDEN STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
Merchiston Hall, Geelong was built in 1856 as a residence for local businessman and politician, James Cowie, on a commanding site in Geelong. It was designed by local architects, Backhouse…
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You must log in to shortlist items.30 GHERINGHAP STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Geelong Town Hall was designed by prominent Melbourne architect Joseph Reed and construction of the first stage, offices facing Little Malop Street and a large hall, commenced in 1855. The…
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You must log in to shortlist items.17-19 MERCER STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
The Former Brown Brothers Store at the corner of Mercer and Ginn Streets, Geelong is one of a small group of corrugated iron buildings exported from Glasgow first by the firm of Robertson and…
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You must log in to shortlist items.175 LATROBE TERRACE GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Early Melbourne architect Charles Laing designed St Paul's Church of England, Geelong. It was the second Anglican church built in the township, in response to the rapid population growth in…
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You must log in to shortlist items.2 MALOP STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
A branch of the Bank of Australasia was first opened for business in Geelong in 1846. In 1854 an allotment on the corner of Malop and Gheringhap Streets, Geelong was purchased and the…
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You must log in to shortlist items.8 MALOP STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
Built for the Colonial Bank of Australasia in 1857, the former Trustees Chambers building is a two storey bluestone structure with rendered front facade, designed by the Geelong architects,…
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You must log in to shortlist items.9-11 MALOP STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
A branch of the London Chartered Bank of Australia was first opened for business in Geelong in 1853 in Little Malop Street. Three years later tenders were invited for the erection of a new…
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You must log in to shortlist items.55 MAUD STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
The former Geelong Grammar School was built in Maud Street in 1857-58 to designs by architects, Backhouse and Reynolds. Their commission was the result of a competition for the design of a…
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You must log in to shortlist items.26 MOORABOOL STREET GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
The former Dennys Lascelles Wool Store, Geelong was built in 1872 to general acclaim for its size, innovation and distinctive facade. Charles John Dennys (1818-1898) was a pioneer in the…
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This pair of semi-detached town-houses, was built about 1850. It is one of the few surviving buildings designed by the important Geelong architects, Surplice & Sons. The style of the…
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MATTHEW FLINDERS SCHOOL NO.8022
You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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The completion of the Geelong Gaol in 1864 reflects an important phase of prison constructed in Victoria. Between 1857 and 1864 a remarkable period of building activity saw eight prisons…
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You must log in to shortlist items.1 RAILWAY TERRACE GEELONG, Greater Geelong City
Geelong railway station was constructed in 1877 by Overend & Robb on the Melbourne-Geelong line for the Victorian Railways. It replaced the original station that was built in 1857. It…
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The former Telegraph Station in Geelong was built in 1857-8 by builders Patterson and Bell, after the telegraph line between Melbourne and Geelong was constructed in 1854-5. It was the centre…
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You must log in to shortlist items.5-9 SMITH STREET and 222-224 TORQUAY ROAD GROVEDALE, GREATER GEELONG CITY
The Cottage at 224 Torquay Road, Grovedale is an early example of a German settler's Cottage located in one of the earliest and most important of early German settlements in Victoria in the…
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You must log in to shortlist items.605 BACCHUS MARSH ROAD LOVELY BANKS, GREATER GEELONG CITY
Elcho Homestead was built in about 1867 for John Galletly, on a four thousand acre property adjoining the Bacchus Marsh Road. The architect of the house is unknown. A wing was added on the…
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The small bluestone church at Leopold, or the village of Kensington, as it was known originally, was built between 1859 and 1862, from the designs of the distinguished Geelong architect,…
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FORMER MOORABOOL RAILWAY STATION
You must log in to shortlist items.275 BALLAN ROAD MOORABOOL, Greater Geelong City
The Victorian Railways Department was created in 1856. In 1857 management of the Department was passed to the Board of Land and Works. During that same year, tenders were invited for the…
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