THE BRIARS

450 NEPEAN HIGHWAY MOUNT MARTHA, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE

This pastoral run was taken up in 1840 by the prominent gentleman colonist Captain James Reid, who called it Checkingurk (or Tichingorook). Georgiana McCrae sketched the property in 1844. In…

BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERY

430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY

Boroondara Cemetery, established in 1858, is within an unusual triangular reserve bounded by High Street, Park Hill Road and Victoria Park, Kew. The caretaker's lodge and administrative…

HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY

GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

In 1861 or 1862, Francis Walkins, stonemason of Stawell discovered an outcrop of freestone in the Mount Difficult range while on a shooting trip and realised that the stone was extremely…

CHATEAU TAHBILK

254 ONEILS ROAD TABILK, STRATHBOGIE SHIRE

The Chateau Tahbilk winery (now trading as Tahbilk Winery and Vineyard) was begun in 1860 by entrepreneurs Richard Horne and Ludovic Marieas as the Goulburn Vineyard Proprietary Company…

ST JOHNS CHURCH OF ENGLAND

510 TOORAK ROAD TOORAK, Stonnington City

St Johns Church of England, located at the intersection of Toorak and Clendon Roads, Toorak, was erected in 1860, and subsequently enlarged in 1865, with the tower and broached spire added…

INGLEBY HOMESTEAD AND OUTBUILDINGS

765 INGLEBY ROAD WINCHELSEA and 3470 CAPE OTWAY ROAD BIRREGURRA, SURF COAST SHIRE

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…

FORMER CARLO GERVASONI HOMESTEAD

390 YANDOIT CREEK ROAD YANDOIT HILLS, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

HISTORIC BUILDINGS COUNCIL - STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: The former Carlo Gervasoni Homestead Complex is one of a group of buildings expressive of the settlement of Italian agriculturists in…

BALLAARAT MECHANICS INSTITUTE

113-121 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Ballaarat Mechanics Institute in Ballarat was built in two main stages, in 1860-61 and in 1869-70. The Institute had first met unofficially in 1854, with space…

GLENALBYN GRANGE

84 HALLS ROAD KINGOWER, LODDON SHIRE

Glenalbyn Grange is a remarkably intact farm complex developed from the 1850's. Its significance is based on the following: 1. Historic importance as a farm property which has survived in…

WHITE HILLS CEMETERY

261-351 HOLDSWORTH ROAD WHITE HILLS, Greater Bendigo City

The earliest burials at White Hills Cemetery which was formerly known as Lower Bendigo Cemetery or Junction Cemetery, took place in November 1853 in an unconsecrated non-denominational…

TALERDDIG

24 GREENHILL STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

In 1871 Edward Williams purchased a cottage, originally built in the early 1860s, and enlarged it with the addition of two bay-windowed rooms, a cast iron and timber verandah and a drawing…

CASTLEMAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS

WALKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

The Castlemaine Botanic Gardens were gazetted on 21 February 1860 and is believed to be laid out by the first curator Phillip Doran (1830-1913) who occupied this position for 47 years. Doran…

ST KILDA BOTANICAL GARDENS

55 BLESSINGTON STREET ST KILDA, PORT PHILLIP CITY

The St Kilda Botanical Gardens of 6.4 hectares were permanently reserved in August 1860. The original formal or geometric design for the Gardens was prepared by Tilman Gloystein c1860 and…

LIFEBOAT STATION

3 GRIFFITHS STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE

The Port Fairy lifeboat was built at Williamstown in 1857. The design and construction is possibly by William White, an emigrant member of the well-known family of Cowes boat-builders. The…

PASTORIA HOMESTEAD

589 BAYNTON ROAD PASTORIA, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE

Pastoria Homestead is predominantly an Arts and Crafts styled building developed in two main stages. The first stage consists of a simple single storey homestead building which is now…

ST ELMO

127 ELIZABETH STREET GEELONG WEST, Greater Geelong City

St. Elmo, erected between 1860 and 1862, was built by its original owner George Arnott, a skilled bricklayer and father of 12 children, who occupied the property for over 60 years. The small…

FORMER BRIND'S DISTILLERY

2830 OLD MELBOURNE ROAD DUNNSTOWN, Moorabool Shire

During the 1860s Robert Dunn established the distillery beside a spring on the south slopes of Mount Warrenheip. It was soon taken over by a chemist, Henry Brind, and by 1893 Brind's…

CAMPASPE PARK

300 ELLIS ROAD GOORNONG, Greater Bendigo City

Campaspe Park is a large two storey homestead sited on the west bank of the Campaspe River. It was built in two phases, the first probably in the early to mid 1860s, the second in the early…

FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

3 GILLES STREET WARRNAMBOOL, Warrnambool City

The Warrnambool Customs House was built in 1860, and is an early colonial customs house. It was designed by the Public Works Department's Charles Maplestone in a simple, utilitarian style…

MELBOURNE GENERAL CEMETERY

COLLEGE CRESCENT CARLTON NORTH, Melbourne City

The Melbourne General Cemetery was established in 1850 pursuant to anactof the New South Wales parliament. Designed by Albert Purchas,surveyorand architect, it was opened in 1853 and is one…

FORMER PLEASANT CREEK COURT HOUSE

46-48 LONGFIELD STREET STAWELL, Northern Grampians Shire

The former Pleasant Creek Court House, built in 1859, is identified by Court Houses in Victoria A Survey as the best and most intact example of four identically planned court houses in the…

SIEBELS FARMHOUSE

77 MOUNT VIEW ROAD THOMASTOWN, WHITTLESEA CITY

Siebel's Farmhouse was erected in 1860 by Johann Gottlob Siebel and replaced an earlier one in which he had lived since first settling in Thomastown in 1850. The cottage is constructed of…

WARRINGAH

80 MERCER STREET QUEENSCLIFF, Queenscliffe Borough

Warringah (formerly El Tambo) was constructed c1860 for Thomas Howard Fellows, who had purchased the land in 1857. It is a single storey house of stuccoed sandstone with hipped slate roof…

FORT GELLIBRAND

BATTERY ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY

From the 1850s to the turn of the century a series of coastal defensive works were built in the Colony of Victoria in response to a perceived threat of attack from hostile warships. The…

BLOWHOLES GOLD DIVERSION TUNNEL

BLOWHOLE TRACK HEPBURN and DRY DIGGINGS TRACK BASALT, HEPBURN SHIRE

The Blowholes Gold Diversion Tunnel is a creek diversion which was probably built in the early 1860s when Jim Crow Creek was being extensively worked by European and Chinese miners. The…