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WALLACES TRACK NELSE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1616Wallaces? hut was built in 1889 and is probably the oldest surviving hut on the high plains of north-east Victoria. It was built in six weeks by Irish immigrant brothers Arthur, William and…
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14 FEDERATION STREET BOX HILL, WHITEHORSE CITY
VHR H0720The Box Hill Brickworks had their origins in the boom years of the 1880s. In 1884 a prospectus was issued for the Haughton Park Brick Company Ltd., Box Hill, proposing to produce machine and…
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38 BLACK STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0126Spurling House, Brighton was built in 1889 for Phillis Spurling to a highly innovative design by Canadian-born, Sydney architect, John Horbury Hunt. It is the only known example of his work…
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81 SOUTH ROAD BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0621Kiora was built in 1891 at the very end of Melbourne's boom. It is an outstanding example of the boom style mansions characteristic of that hectic time. The first owner, and almost certainly…
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201 WERE STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H0125SOURCE: REPORT TO MINISTER STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Chevy Chase and a sister residence Ratho (now the St John of God hospital) were erected by two business partners. Built in 1881 Chevy…
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BRIGHTON BEACH RAILWAY STATION
1 ESPLANADE BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY
VHR H1077The Brighton Beach Railway Station was built in 1889 by contractor Donald Swanson to drawings prepared by George Sims, Senior Draughtsman, Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, Victorian Railways…
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3210 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0700George Francis Morris (1834-1910) was one of the greatest of Victoria's nineteenth century vignerons. In 1904 his property, Fairfield,was described as the country's largest vineyard and…
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3221 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0698Olive Hills comprises a large country homestead and complex of related farm buildings. The homestead was constructed in 1886 for Hugh Fraser, a Scot who had worked at the Docker's Bontharambo…
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1-17 COLEBROOK STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0705This substantial complex of three bluestone grainstores was erected between 1888 and 1891 for Donald Melville, a prominent local wool and grain merchant and Member of Parliament. In 1911,…
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72-106 DAWSON STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0703A portion of the original No 2 works of the Former Hoffman Brickworks, Dawson Street, Brunswick, including two Hoffman kilns, a remnant chimney from a third Hoffman kiln, a large brick press…
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1144 SWAN REACH ROAD MOSSIFACE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H0540John Calvert arrived in Melbourne in 1853 from Northumberland. John and his brother William were successful diggers on the Ballarat fields and, after travelling back to England to fetch their…
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BUNINYONG TOWN HALL AND COURT HOUSE
313 LEARMONTH STREET BUNINYONG, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0758The Buninyong Town Hall was designed to fill the dual role of town hall and courthouse. Buninyong municipality was formed in 1863. In 1869 tenders were called for the erection of a hall 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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FINLAY AVENUE OF ELMS, MANIFOLD CLOCK TOWER AND PUBLIC MONUMENT PRECINCT
MANIFOLD STREET CAMPERDOWN AND PRINCES HIGHWAY SKIBO, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H0647The Finlay Avenue of Elms, Manifold Clock Tower and Public Monument Precinct, Camperdown, forms a dramatic central landscape feature in the town. The 30 metre high, red brick clock tower of…
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179 MANIFOLD STREET AND 4 MCNICOL STREET CAMPERDOWN, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H1385The Camperdown Court House was constructed in Medieval Gothic Revival style in 1886-7, to the design of Public Works Department architect GBH Austin as a replacement for an earlier timber…
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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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CHATSWORTH-WICKLIFFE ROAD CHATSWORTH, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H1703The cast iron mileposts on the Chatsworth Wickliffe Road near Chatsworth were made by Robison Brothers & Co of Melbourne. The date of manufacture is unknown but is believed to be early…
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456 REMEMBRANCE DRIVE WINDERMERE, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0763Primary School No.668, Western Highway, Cardigan, [456 Remembrance Drive Windermere] a brick school opened in 1883, as the Windermere Town School, to replace an earlier wooden building of…
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46 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0408Rosaville, at 46 Drummond Street, Carlton, was built in 1883 for Abraham Harris to the design of the architect Nahum Barnet. Rosaville, an exotic example of so-called boom style classicism,…
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48 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0409Medley Hall was erected in 1893 for Mrs Leah Abrahams by the builder Richard Stockdale to the design of the architect Walter Scott Law. The elaborately decorated two storey rendered brick…
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93-105 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0872The terrace of seven houses at 93-105 Drummond Street was erected in 1890-91 by the owner and architect Walter Scott Law. Law did not occupy any part of the terrace but built it as a…
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