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Former Campbell Residence - Group Classification

Location 61 Spring Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0074 File Number B0074 Level State

[1/1] B0074 Former Campbell

Statement of Significance

Well suited to corner site. Restrained decoration. Notable iron work, with special reference to fence and balconies. Windows well proportioned. House designed for pastoralist and politician, William Campbell, in 1877 by Leonard Terry. Bought by Federal Government in 1901 and used by Australia's first Prime Ministers until 1912.
Classified: 'Regional' 05/06/1958
Revised: 03/08/1998
See also FileB3869 (5-7-9 Collins Street)

Group Statement of Significance: Group Classification, No 61 Spring Street and Nos 5-9 Collins Street, comprise an important group of buildings framing the vista to the Old Treasury Building, one of Victoria's finest buildings. They are integral elements of the precinct at the top end of Collins Street and the sections of Spring Street around the intersection with Collins Street and leading up to Parliament House. The buildings form a unified group on terms of scale and mass whilst at the same time retaining sufficient variety of volume, skyline and architectural detail to add visual interest to the precinct as a whole and to maintain the individual effect of each building. This group also forms a foil to the early twentieth century buildings opposite which are the solution of that time to this singularly important precinct. The buildings are representative of the residential use which was the traditional land use of this end of Collins Street throughout the nineteenth century. The elaborate Boom Style design on Nos 5 and 7 provides an important contrast to the restrained Conservative Classical design of No 61 Spring Street, whilst No 9 repeats the Conservative manner of 61 Spring Street, although constructed well after Nos 5 and 7.