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Edward Willis House
242 Ryrie Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B1148
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Built for the noted pastoralist and merchant Edward Willis in 1847, this house is significant for the following reasons. It is: built of local sandstone; and early work of noted architect John Gill; the City of Geelong's oldest known house; the grandest among the surviving Geelong town-houses of the 1840-50s and retains sufficient detail to allow external restoration to that form; the oldest urban house in the region; particularly significant for its pre-Gold Rush status, a small
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B1148
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Demolished
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