BARUNAH PLAINS

4484 HAMILTON HIGHWAY HESSE, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE

Barunah Plains including the homestead, stables, dairy and bakehouse, coach house, engine house, farm shed, manager's cottage, cottage, woolshed, shearers' quarters, suspension bridge,…

FORMER NEWPORT RAILWAY WORKSHOPS

2-78 CHAMPION ROAD NEWPORT, HOBSONS BAY CITY

In 1884 the decision was made to erect a new workshop facility in an area of land between the Geelong Railway and the Williamstown Railway at Newport (the current Workshops site). Although…

FORMER KEW COTTAGES (KEW RESIDENTIAL SERVICES)

PRINCESS STREET, STAINER STREET, BOTANIC DRIVE, ARBOUR DRIVE, CANOPY AVENUE, BRAZIER GROVE, COLLINS STREET, LOWER DRIVE, PARK AVENUE, LINAKER PLACE, GUEST CLOSE, MONTEREY CLOSE, ENGLISH PLACE, MAIN DRIVE, HOLLY LANE, LOWER DRIVE NORTH, KEW, BOROONDARA CIT

The Former Kew Cottages (Kew Residential Services) initially consisted of three cottages, school house and kitchen constructed from 1887 to the east of the Kew Lunatic Asylum. The present…

COURT HOUSE

161-165 FRANKLIN STREET TRARALGON, LATROBE CITY

The [Post Office and ]Court House is a major 19th century building in Traralgon located on a key site and retaining most of its original architectural details. It is of regional historic…

FORMER CUSTOMS HOUSE

2 FOORD STREET WAHGUNYAH, INDIGO SHIRE

The old Wahgunyah Customs House was erected in 1886 by the Public Works Department and is almost identical to the Echuca Customs House (1884). The single storey structure in exposed…

SANDRIDGE RAILWAY LINE BRIDGE

OVER YARRA RIVER, MELBOURNE and SOUTHBANK, MELBOURNE CITY

The Sandridge Railway Line Bridge was the third successive bridge at this location to carry the rail link from Flinders Street Station to Port Melbourne and St Kilda. The bridge is on the…

GUNS AND EMPLACEMENTS

BATTERY LANE PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE

The guns and emplacements at Battery Hill, Port Fairy, comprise bluestone and concrete fortifications built by the Public Works Department in 1886-87; two guns installed in 1887, associated…

CAMPERDOWN BOTANIC GARDENS AND ARBORETUM

220 PARK ROAD CAMPERDOWN, Corangamite Shire

The Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum are situated high on a hill approximately 6 kilometres west of the township of Camperdown at the end of Park Road with commanding views over the…

FORMER MELBOURNE VETERINARY COLLEGE

38-40 BRUNSWICK STREET FITZROY, Yarra City

The Former Melbourne Veterinary College, 38-40 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy is a two storey brick building constructed in 1886 as an animal hospital and veterinary college by WT Kendall, who is…

FORMER BAIRNSDALE HOSPITAL

14 MCKEAN STREET BAIRNSDALE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE

The former Bairnsdale Hospital was designed by Harry B Gibbs in 1885, and Gibbs' four ornamental one- and two-storey pavilions were built in stages between 1886 and 1902, with further…

CAROUSEL

ROYAL MELBOURNE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, ELLIOTT AVENUE PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY

The Carousel was imported to Australia from London in 1886 by John and Margaret Briggs. It was purchased for touring around country Victoria. The structure was originally demountable for…

LEICHARDT GOLD CRUSHING BATTERY

ABBOT CREEK TRACK WOODS POINT, MANSFIELD SHIRE

A party of prospectors found a gold bearing reef near the junction of Wye's and Stander's creeks in 1886. A year later the party was building a large wooden-spoked water wheel and carting to…

PYRENEES HOUSE

9-59 GIRDLESTONE STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Pyrenees House was built in 1886 as a general hospital to replace its 1860 predecessor which was razed to the ground after being condemned. The designer of the new hospital was Ballarat…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2634

9-23 DENSHAM ROAD ARMADALE, Stonnington City

Primary School No.2634 in Armadale consists of two buildings. The larger of the two is a single storey structure with tuckpointed brown brick walls with contrasting bands. It is believed…

FORMER REIDS COFFEE PALACE

128 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, Ballarat City

Reid's Coffee Palace was built for J Reid & Sons in two stages on the site of Reid's New York Bakery. The first stage was designed by architects, Tappin & Gilbert and was constructed…

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…

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…

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…

MYOORA

405-411 ALMA ROAD CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY

Myoora, 405 Alma Road, North Caulfield, was designed by Reed, Henderson & Smart and can be attributed to Anketell Henderson. It was built in 1886 and 1887 for Thomas Christian, who had…

QUEEN BESS ROW

72-76 HOTHAM STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

Queen Bess Row, built in 1886-87, was designed by the Melbourne architects Tappin Gilbert & Dennehy. Queen Bess Row is made up of three houses that appear to be one large four storeyed…

FOYNES

52 POWLETT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, Melbourne City

Foynes is a two storey double fronted house with a two storey verandah to the main facade. The construction is rendered brick with a roof originally of slate but now corrugated iron. The…

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…

POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSE

188 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY

The former Kew Police Station and former Court House was built as part of a complex constructed to also accommodate a post office. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.2586

17-23 TOORONGA ROAD MALVERN EAST, STONNINGTON CITY

The Malvern Primary School No.2586 opened in a wooden building leased from the Church of England in 1884, opposite Caulfield racecourse. Until 1887 it was known as the Racecourse School. In…

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

199-227 EXHIBITION STREET and 84-98 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

Her Majesty's Theatre was originally designed in 1886 by noted Melbourne architect Nahum Barnet. The theatre was the national flagship of American entrepreneur James C Williamson for nearly…