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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Charles Summers - River God Fountain - Fitzroy Gardens Near Albert Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6777	The River God Fountain is of State Significance. It is a rare example of Charles Summer's use of cast stone in sculpture, and one of the few surviving public works by the most important sculptor working in the mid nineteenth century in Victoria. It is also significant as being the first and principal fountain erected in the newly developed Fitzroy Gardens. It also has historic significance as celebrating the establishment of the first reticulated water supply to Melbourne from the ... more	B6777	State
Conservatory - Fitzroy Gardens Fitzroy Gardens,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B5409		B5409	File only
Ola Cohn - Fairies Tree - Fitzroy Gardens Wellington Parade and Landsdown Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6672	As is stated in Ken Scarlett's book, "Australian Sculptors", (1) on page 119, `It may make a very doubtful claim to being called sculpture, but it can without doubt claim more spectators than any piece of sculpture in Melbourne'. From the early 1930's the work captured the attention of the press and of the general public and very quickly became widely known. Along with Cook's Cottage, also in the Fitzroy Gardens, `The Fairies Tree' would be visited by a great number of tourists, as ... more	B6672	State
Fitzroy Gardens Wellington Parade, Lansdowne Street, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No G13002	Fitzroy Gardens, proclaimed in 1848, planned by Edward La Trobe Bateman in 1857-8, developed by Clement Hodgkinson and James Sinclair during the late 1850s to c.1880, progressively altered during the 1880s-90s and in continuous use to the present as a public garden, is of National significance: - historically, as one of Melbourne's major city parks; the site forms part of a network of parks developed from the mid-nineteenth century, including Treasury Gardens, Carlton ... more	G13002	National
Fitzroy Gardens Kiosk Fitzroy Gardens, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B7677		B7677	Demolished