WALLACES HUT

WALLACES TRACK NELSE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Wallaces? 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…

FORMER STANDARD BRICKWORKS

14 FEDERATION STREET BOX HILL, Whitehorse City

The 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…

SPURLING HOUSE

38 BLACK STREET BRIGHTON, Bayside City

Spurling 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…

KIORA

81 SOUTH ROAD BRIGHTON, Bayside City

Kiora 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…

CHEVY CHASE

201 WERE STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY

SOURCE: 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…

BRIGHTON BEACH RAILWAY STATION

1 ESPLANADE BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY

The 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…

FAIRFIELD

3210 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, Indigo Shire

George 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…

OLIVE HILLS

3221 MURRAY VALLEY HIGHWAY RUTHERGLEN, Indigo Shire

Olive 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…

FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STORE

1-17 COLEBROOK STREET BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY

This 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,…

FORMER HOFFMAN BRICKWORKS

72-106 DAWSON STREET BRUNSWICK, Moreland City

A 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…

MOSSIFACE HOP KILNS

1144 SWAN REACH ROAD MOSSIFACE, East Gippsland Shire

John 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…

BUNINYONG TOWN HALL AND COURT HOUSE

313 LEARMONTH STREET BUNINYONG, Ballarat City

The 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…

FORMER ES&A BANK

482 RIVERSDALE ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY

The 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…

PARLINGTON

46 PARLINGTON STREET CANTERBURY, Boroondara City

Parlington, 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…

FINLAY AVENUE OF ELMS, MANIFOLD CLOCK TOWER AND PUBLIC MONUMENT PRECINCT

MANIFOLD STREET CAMPERDOWN and PRINCES HIGHWAY SKIBO, Corangamite Shire

The 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…

COURT HOUSE

179 MANIFOLD STREET and 4 MCNICOL STREET CAMPERDOWN, Corangamite Shire

The 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…

CANTERBURY MANSIONS

208 CANTERBURY ROAD AND 126 MALING ROAD CANTERBURY, Boroondara City

Canterbury 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…

EYRE COURT

2 MOLESWORTH STREET CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY

The 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…

FROGNALL

54 MONT ALBERT ROAD CANTERBURY, Boroondara City

Frognall 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…

CULLYMONT

4 SELWYN STREET CANTERBURY, BOROONDARA CITY

The 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…

CAST IRON MILEPOSTS

CHATSWORTH-WICKLIFFE ROAD CHATSWORTH, Moyne Shire

The 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…

FORMER PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 668

456 REMEMBRANCE DRIVE WINDERMERE, BALLARAT CITY

Primary 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…

ROSAVILLE

46 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Rosaville, 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,…

MEDLEY HALL

48 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Medley 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…

DRUMMOND TERRACE

93-105 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

The 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…