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11 PATRICK STREET STAWELL, Northern Grampians Shire
VHR H1997The town of Stawell grew out of two mining settlements established in the 1850s. Gold was discovered at Pleasant Creek (later Stawell West) in 1853 and at Quartz Reefs (later known as…
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CHAPEL STREET and GREVILLE STREET PRAHRAN, Stonnington City
VHR H0203The Prahran Town Hall complex was constructed in stages over a number of years on land at the corner of Chapel and Greville Streets. The first municipal council was elected in 1856, the year…
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2-4 BARKLY STREET BALLARAT EAST, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0106The Jewish Synagogue in Barkly Street, Ballarat was built in 1861 anddesigned by the local architect, T. B. Cameron for the Ballarat Hebrewcongregation. The first Jewish service was held in…
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10 JOHN STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire
VHR H0354The house at 10 John Street was built in stages. In 1862 a miner named R Chant built a 16ft x 12ft calico tent with slab walls on the site. The slab walls were later replaced by…
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189-193 HARGREAVES STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City
VHR H0117The present Bendigo Town Hall was begun on this site in Hargraves Street in 1859 as a simple two storey brick Italianate structure, designed by the town clerk and surveyor, George Avery…
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WHITTLESEA PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2090
2425-2435 PLENTY ROAD WHITTLESEA, WHITTLESEA CITY
VHR H1717The first school at Whittlesea was built with a subsidy of £500 from the Denominational Schools Board in 1856. It was a brick building and had a small teacher's residence. In 1878 a…
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WILLIAMSTOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1183
111-119 CECIL STREET WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H1639The site on which Williamstown Primary School stands was originally part of the market reserve and was purchased by the Education Department from the Williamstown Council in 1874.…
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67 SULLIVAN STREET INGLEWOOD, LODDON SHIRE
VHR H1281The pipe organ in St Augustine's church, Inglewood, was built by master organ-builder George Fincham in 1878 and was installed in St Augustine's church in the same year. Fincham, the son and…
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26 HALIFAX STREET BRIGHTON, Bayside City
VHR H1155Billilla is a single storeyed, rendered brick mansion dominated by a three-storeyed tower. Originally constructed in 1878 and altered in 1888 to design of prominent Melbourne architects Smith…
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485 RULES ROAD TOORLOO ARM, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1796The Anglican Church, Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust, is a timber church constructed in 1878 for the then Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission to a design by the prominent Melbourne architect, Leonard…
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60 LEE STREET CARLTON NORTH, YARRA CITY
VHR H1626Primary School No.1252, better known as the Lee Street School, Carlton North, was based on a generic public-school design by the architect W.H. Ellerker, that had been prepared for a design…
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2-12 PARLIAMENT PLACE and 34-40 ST ANDREWS PLACE EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H1025Tasma terrace, once comprising seven three storey buildings, was constructed in two stages. The first three buildings were erected in 1878-78 by William Ireland for George Nipper, grain…
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OFF LA SCALA AVENUE MARIBYRNONG, MARIBYRNONG CITY
VHR H1154Jack's Magazine is a virtually intact complex of 19th century, bluestone, and gunpowder storage buildings with associated earth mound blast walls, tunnels, tramways, service buildings,…
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193-197 WATTLE STREET and 29 VALENTINE STREET IRONBARK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1680The Former Fuse Factory appears to have been established sometime prior to 1878 by Charles Perry and John Hunter. Until that time the company had been manufacturers of gratings for crushing…
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118 BARNETT STREET AVOCA, Pyrenees Shire
VHR H1622Avoca Primary School was built in 1878 to provide accommodation for the growing number of children in the region. From the 1850s the growth of Avoca was greatly affected by the gold rush and…
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334-344 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City
VHR H1543Carlton Police Station was designed by Public Works Department architects William Steel and George Watson and erected in 1878 by contractor William Smith. It is a two storey brick building…
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FORMER HEAD TEACHER'S RESIDENCE
114 CAPE STREET HEIDELBERG, Banyule City
VHR H1617The head teacher's residence at Heidelberg was constructed in 1878 when it was decided to replace the existing Heidelberg State School with a new school building. The existing school was the…
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30 MONTE STREET NERRINA, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H1632Gold was discovered at Nerrina, originally called Little Bendigo, in 1851. The town was later renamed, due to confusion with Bendigo, but the school retained the original name of the town.…
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17 JACKSON STREET LONG GULLY, Greater Bendigo City
VHR H0968Long Gully Primary School, constructed in 1879, is significant as a particularly good representative example of the work of Henry Bastow in response to climatic conditions. The School…
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556-558 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0441In 1851 a house, shop and bakehouse occupied this site in Lonsdale Street. It appears to have been used as a bakery until 1855 when an application was made to build on the site, and the…
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98 - 110 WILLIAM STREET and 475-485 LITTLE COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0105The Australian Club, 110 William Street, was founded in 1878. The present clubrooms were erected in three stages and comprise four storeys with a basement and attic. Construction is of…
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155 ROYAL PARADE PARKVILLE, Melbourne City
VHR H1545The former Police Station complex at 155 Royal Parade, Parkville was constructed in the latter half of 1878 to designs by the Public Works Department of Victoria. The original drawings were…
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55-67 CREMORNE STREET CREMORNE, Yarra City
VHR H1634Primary School No.2084 in Cremorne Street Richmond consists of two finely detailed and relatively intact school buildings built in 1878 and 1890. The earlier building is a single storey…
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LERDERDERG ROAD BLACKWOOD, MOORABOOL SHIRE
VHR H2015Wheeler's tramway, Mount Wilson, is a comparatively intact example of a log tramway formation, located in the Wombat Forest. It was constructed by James H Wheeler around 1878 to provide logs…
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STRINGYBARK CREEK ROAD and TATONG-TOLMIE ROAD ARCHERTON, BENALLA RURAL CITY
VHR H2205Stringybark Creek was the location where three police officers were shot and killed by Ned Kelly on 26 October 1878. Following the deaths of the Mansfield police officers Lonigan, Scanlan…
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