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51 RATHMINES ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H1707The establishment of a Primary School in Auburn was the result of much lobbying on behalf of the families of the fast-growing Auburn district. Temporary accommodation was opened in 1889 and…
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482 RIVERSDALE ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0534The former English, Scottish and Australian Bank was constructed in 1885. It was designed by the prominent architects William Wardell and W L Vernon in the Gothic style. The bank, one of the…
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46 PARLINGTON STREET CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0731Parlington, earlier known as Verulam, was constructed in the Italianate style in about 1888 for William Elsdon, later the Chief Engineer for the Victorian Railways. Subsequent owners…
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208 CANTERBURY ROAD AND 126 MALING ROAD CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0869Canterbury Mansions was first known as Malone's Family Hotel, after which it was called the Canterbury Club Hotel. In 1920, following the Local Option Poll and the closure of all hotels in…
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2 MOLESWORTH STREET CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0817The villa known as Eyre Court, along with its pair Cullymont, was completed in 1890 as suburbanisation followed the extension of the railway to Lilydale (1882). Constructed in the Italianate…
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54 MONT ALBERT ROAD CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0707Frognall was constructed in 1888-9 for the timber merchant Clarence Hicks, who had gained wealth from the building boom. After the bank collapse and depression of the early 1890s Frognall…
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4 SELWYN STREET CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0811The villa known as Cullymont, along with its pair Eyre Court, was completed in 1890 as suburbanisation followed the extension of the railway to Lilydale (1882). Constructed in the Italianate…
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29 HARCOURT STREET HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0510Rotha was designed by the notable nineteenth century architect John Beswicke as his own residence. The house, built in 1887, is two-storey red-brick and includes design features which…
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21 ISABELLA GROVE HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0196Oxford, formerly known as Friesia, was constructed in 1888 to the design of J A B Koch for Melbourne's first German consul William A Brahe. The house was built in German Renaissance style…
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41 KINKORA ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0788Shenton was built in 1890 for the coal, chaff and grain merchant John Shenton Gordon. The house was purchased in 1897 by George Swinburne, the prominent engineer, commercial entrepreneur,…
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405 TOORONGA ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0489Kawarau, an Italianate mansion originally known as Warrington, with nineteenth-century bi-chrome outbuilding. The residence was built for Robert Robinson, a Melbourne grain merchant, and…
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135 BARKERS ROAD KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0893The first section of Xavier College commenced in 1872 with the South Wing designed by Kelly, Dennehy and Tappin with a grand Victorian facade. The West Wing was built in 1889 in a Classical…
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SPRINGTHORPE MEMORIAL, BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERY
430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0522The Springthorpe Memorial within the Boroondara Cemetery (VHR0049)commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected in 1897 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was designed by Harold…
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292 COTHAM ROAD KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0202Ross House, formerly called Charleville, was built as a two-storey mansion in 1889 for Charles Donaldson. It was designed in the Italianate style by the architect H Shallers and built by G…
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSE
188 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0944The former Kew Police Station and former Court House was built as part of a complex constructed to also accommodate a post office. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…
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186 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0885The former Kew Post Office was built at the apex of a complex constructed to also accommodate a police station and court house. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…
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30 YARRA STREET HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2210Tay Creggan was built by the prominent Melbourne architect Robert Guyon Whittlesey Purchas (known as Guyon) as his own home. He bought the land, a 1.5 hectare sloping site between the…
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81 OXLEY ROAD AND 3 HEPBURN STREET HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2034Wesleyan Methodism was one of the flourishing denominations of the Hawthorn municipality in the second half of the nineteenth century. The local Methodist community was known as the…
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521 GLENFERRIE ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H1924Cestria was built for the wealthy biscuit manufacturer Thomas B Guest in 1891. Architect EG Kilburn of the partnership Ellerker and Kilburn signed the drawings. Kilburn had recently visited…
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1 HARCOURT STREET HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2382Talana including the exterior and interiors, landscape and the extensive grounds. The brick boundary fence, new garage, swimming pool, tennis court and pavilion are more recently constructed…
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285-315 COTHAM ROAD KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H1902Genazzano FCJ College, including the: . 1890-91 Wardell Building (including its exteriors and interiors) which is of primary significance; . 1930-31 grotto, 1930s steps with stone urns, 1936…
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FORMER KEW COTTAGES (KEW RESIDENTIAL SERVICES)
PRINCESS STREET, STAINER STREET, BOTANIC DRIVE, ARBOUR DRIVE, CANOPY AVENUE, BRAZIER GROVE, COLLINS STREET, LOWER DRIVE, PARK AVENUE, LINAKER PLACE, GUEST CLOSE, MONTEREY CLOSE, ENGLISH PLACE, MAIN DRIVE, HOLLY LANE, LOWER DRIVE NORTH, KEW, BOROONDARA CIT
VHR H2073The Former Kew Cottages (Kew Residential Services) initially consisted of three cottages, school house and kitchen constructed from 1887 to the east of the Kew Lunatic Asylum. The present…
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VICTORIA STREET RICHMOND AND BARKERS ROAD KEW, YARRA CITY, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0374Victoria Bridge is a riveted and welded steel Warren truss bridge over the Yarra River completed in 1884 to a design by Fraser & Chase following a controversial design competition held…
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WALLEN ROAD HAWTHORN AND SWAN STREET RICHMOND, BOROONDARA CITY, YARRA CITY
VHR H0380Wallen Road Bridge was designed by Temperley, Edwards and Jenkins and erected by the Johnson & Co Tyne Foundry, Melbourne in 1881. Known originally as Richmond Park Bridge, then Swan…
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HAWTHORN TRAM DEPOT, 8 WALLEN ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H2147Electric Tram No. 13 is a four wheel, cross bench car constructed by the J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia, USA and assembled in Melbourne in 1906 by Duncan & Fraser, an Adelaide based…
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