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68994

Former Post Office

162 Toorak Road,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B2191

On a restricted and precipitous site adjacent the railway cutting at 162 Toorak Road stands the former South Yarra Post Office. Designed in 1890 by Public Works Department (PWD), Architect, A J McDonald and erected in 1892-3, the three-storey red brick structure combines basic American Romanesque characteristics with Scottish baronial forms and art nouveau and Australian decorative motifs in an asymmetrical picturesque compostiion. The former South Yarra Post Office is ... more

B2191

State
173079

Former Post Office

91 Barkly Street,, ARARAT VIC 3377 - Property No B2119

The former Post Office, Ararat, dates from 1861/62. It was erected by the Public Works Department to the designs by A T Snow. The contractor was D Secton. The once simple Italianate Palazzo form has a three-arch arcade on the ground floor - subsequently filled. The first floor oriel incorporating a clock was designed by P G Fick of the Public Works Department and was added in 1889. Other additions and alterations were undertaken in 1908/1909 and 1926/27. The building was ... more

B2119

State
69850

Former Post Office

Municipal Offices

Cnr Bentinck & Gawler Streets,, PORTLAND VIC 3305 - Property No B0870

Built 1883. Classified: 12/05/1958.

B0870

Local
 

Former Post Office

83 Ryrie Street, (Cnr Moorabool Street), GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B5026

Geelong Post Office constructed between 1889 and 1891 to the design of Public Works Department architect, John H Marsden, is of State architectural and historical significance as a largely intact example of a late Victorian Italianate Post Office. The substantial, richly decorated asymmetrically alinged corner tower, which recalls the Melbourne General Post Office, is a prominent feature in Geelong's commercial centre. This building has played an important role in the social and ... more

B5026

State
70506

Former Post Office Residence

16 Piper Street, YARRAWONGA VIC 3730 - Property No B3043

B3043

File only
70713

Former Post Office- Port Fairy Historic Area

Former Borough Chambers ,  The Saltra Restaurant

20 Bank Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0333

The former Borough Chambers were erected originally as a post office in 1865. The Borough acquired the building in 1881 and after alterations, met in the building from August 1882. The Council had previously met at the Merrijig Inn (one of the earliest buildings surviving in Port Fairy) and in the stone building south of 'Seacombe House'. The Borough Chambers is an interesting example of architectural design in the Conservative Classical Revival style, almost universally used ... more

B0333

Local
70757

Former Post Office

Hamilton Highway,, HEXHAM VIC 3273 - Property No B4821

B4821

File only
82031

Former Post Office - Port Fairy Historic Area

Darriwill Farm shop

25 Sackville Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0862

A two-storey building in Classical Revival style erected 1879/80 from a standard Works Department design, in which an arcaded front section with pediment and clock forms a balcony to residential rooms of second story: one of only four remaining in 1973. Construction of the Port Fairy Post Office began in May 1880, the contractor being James Kennedy. Architect George Watson of the Public Works Department designed the structure which is in a Conservative Classical Revival ... more

B0862

Local
75590

Former Post Office - St. Arnaud Group

2 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD VIC 3478 - Property No B2874

Part of Group Classification with B2569 Court House, B2875 Crown Lands Office, B2879 Lock-up & B2877 Shire Hall.

B2874

Local
68034

Former Post Office

Kilfera

76 - 80 King Road,, HARKAWAY VIC 3806 - Property No B2470

An unpretentious but important relic of early German settlement, notably the original eastern block with its mud walls and double plan roof. Classified: 28/09/1972

B2470

Regional
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