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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.57-59 FOREST STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
The brick garden walls at 57-59 Forest Street Bendigo, originally surrounding the house owned by local barrister and commander of the Sandhurst Volunteer Rifle Corps, Captain John Lysaght,on…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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FORMER CARLO GERVASONI HOMESTEAD
You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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FORMER PLEASANT CREEK COURT HOUSE
You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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You must log in to shortlist items.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…
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