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Corio Villa
56 Eastern Beach Road & 1 Fitzroy Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B1062
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The prefabricated iron house, Corio Villa, situated on the corner of Victoria Parade and Fitzroy Street, Geelong, was manufactured in Edinburgh in 1855 by iron founder, Charles D Young and Co from designs by Bell and Miller, architects and engineers. William Nairn Gray, colonial land commissioner, ordered this villa but he died on 11 June, 1854 prior to the portable house shipment. Alfred Douglass, merchant, acquired and erected the villa in 1856.
In the early 1850's,
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