FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

2 LESLIE STREET and 41 MURRAY ESPLANADE ECHUCA, CAMPASPE SHIRE

Echuca developed as an important port from the early 1850s, when Henry Hopwood established a crossing place there. The Echuca Customs House was constructed in 1884 to administer customs…

FORMER ELSTERNWICK POST OFFICE

296 - 298 GLENHUNTLY ROAD and 1A AND 1B RIDDELL PARADE ELSTERNWICK, GLEN EIRA CITY

The Elsternwick Post Office was built in 1891 to the design of the Public Works Department under JH Marsden. The builder was Herbert H. Coulson. The office, complete with postmaster's…

FORMER UNION CHURCH

84-86 ORRONG ROAD ELSTERNWICK, Glen Eira City

The Former Union Church, Elsternwick, designed by the architect George de Lacy Evans, and erected in 1889-90 is a building of historical and architectural significance for the following…

ESSENDON RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

2-26 RUSSELL STREET and BUCKLEY STREET and ROSE STREET ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

The Melbourne to Essendon line opened from Spencer Street to Essendon, in October 1860. One unreliable engine and two carriages conducted an intermittent service between the five stations…

LOWTHER HALL ANGLICAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL

29 LESLIE ROAD ESSENDON, Moonee Valley City

Constructed in 1890 for the brewer Mr Collier McCracken to a design by Messrs Lawson and Grey, this monumental scale classical revival building is one of the few known examples of the…

EUROA COURT HOUSE

99 BINNEY STREET EUROA, Strathbogie Shire

The former Euroa Court House, constructed in 1892, was designed by JT Kelleher and shows the clear influence of AJ Macdonald, both of the Public Works Department. The building is an…

RESIDENCE

17 BELL STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY

FITZROY CRICKET GROUND GRANDSTAND

BRUNSWICK STREET FITZROY NORTH, YARRA CITY

The Fitzroy Cricket Ground Grandstand was constructed in 1888 to the design of the architects N Billing and Son. It is of typical nineteenth century form with central divided entry stair…

RESIDENCE

11 BRUNSWICK STREET FITZROY, Yarra City

The Residence at 11 Brunswick Street Fitzroy is a three storey brick building, built in 1891 as a residence for Alexander Sturrock, a salesman. The four-bay rendered facade supports an…

SHOP AND RESIDENCE

13 BRUNSWICK STREET FITZROY, Yarra City

The Shop and Residence at No. 13 Brunswick Street is a mannered two-storey brick building erected in 1892 as a chemist shop with upstairs residence for James MacInerny, a pharmacist. The…

SHOPS

236-252 BRUNSWICK STREET and 33-62 GREEVES STREET FITZROY, Yarra City

The Shops at 236-252 Brunswick Street Fitzroy, a terrace of eight shops, was built in 1888 for the Australian Property and Investment Co. Ltd. The architect was John Beswicke and the builder…

FORMER CABLE TRAM ENGINE HOUSE

46-48 NICHOLSON STREET FITZROY, YARRA CITY

WHEA AREA OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE The former Nicholson Street Cable Tram Engine House, was built in 1886-1887 for the Melbourne Tramway Trust who leased it to the Melbourne Tramway and…

RESIDENCE

96 MCKEAN STREET FITZROY NORTH, YARRA CITY

The Residence at 96 McKean Street Fitzroy is a two-storey brick town house built in 1892, probably by the property-owner, Harry Rowe. The rendered facade has a two-tier three-bay arcade with…

ANZ BANK

370-374 QUEENS PARADE FITZROY NORTH, Yarra City

The ANZ Bank building in Queens Parade Fitzroy North was built in 1889 to the design of Oakden Addison and Kemp for the London Chartered Bank. Subsequently the building was used as a bank by…

FORMER UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA

165-167 SMITH STREET FITZROY, Yarra City

The Former Union Bank of Australia was constructed in 1889-90 to the design of architects Inskip and Robertson. The two storey rendered brick building combines a bank with a manager’s…

FORMER NORTH FITZROY POST OFFICE

251 ST GEORGES ROAD FITZROY NORTH, Yarra City

The Former North Fitzroy Post Office was built for real estate agent Thomas Rogers c 1886-1887 and served as a land office until 1890. From 1890 until 1907 it was owned by the Standard…

TERRACE

203 VICTORIA PARADE FITZROY, Yarra City

The Terrace house at 203 Victoria Parade Fitzroy is a two-storey building constructed in 1882 for a Mr McClelland. Neither the architect nor builder for the house is known. The building is…

FORMER FLEMINGTON COURT HOUSE

28 WELLINGTON STREET FLEMINGTON, Moonee Valley City

The Former Flemington Court House, forms part of a set of buildings on the triangular site, which includes the Lock-up and Police Station buildings. The Court House is a red brick building…

FOOTSCRAY RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX

IRVING AND HYDE STREETS FOOTSCRAY, Maribyrnong City

The railway station at Footscray is situated at the point of divergence of lines to Williamstown, Bendigo, Geelong and Ballarat. Originally two stations, one on the first major…

BRIDGE

OVER MOORABOOL RIVER, HAMILTON HIGHWAY FYANSFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The currently unused road bridge over the Moorabool River at Fyansford was designed and built by Melbourne engineers, Monash & Anderson in 1899. The bridge which was built for the Shires…

ST JAMES CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY

1 ST JAMES CLOSE BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY

The St James Church Complex stands on a site which has great importance in the early history of Catholicism in Victoria as the place where the mission to Brighton was established circa 1854.…

FORMER STRACHAN MURRAY AND SHANNON WOOL WAREHOUSES

76 BROUGHAM STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Construction of Strachan Murray & Shannon Wool Warehouses commenced in 1889 on a site which had always been a focal point of the Geelong wool trade. The building as it presents to us…

AUSTIN HALL AND TERRACE COMPLEX

217A YARRA STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

The Austin hall and terraces complex comprises two rows of six cottages facing the railway station and Mundy street (1887), Austin hall and its tower and the Austin terrace of four buildings…

MALVERN HOUSE

5-15 WILLOBY AVENUE GLEN IRIS, STONNINGTON CITY

Malvern House (also known as Valentines) is a large Italianate two storey mansion in ornate stuccoed brick with a servants¡¯ wing and a detached laundry building. HOW IS IT…

ROTHA

29 HARCOURT STREET HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY

Rotha 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…