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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Port Melbourne Naval Drill Hall (Includes Former Post Office) Former Post Office 40 Bay Street, (Cnr Rouse Street), PORT MELBOURNE VIC 3207 - Property No B4788	The Port Melbourne Naval Drill Hall was built in 1912 to the design of Commonwealth Department of Works architect JS Murdoch and is one of the first major buildings constructed for the newly formed Royal Australian Navy. The drill hall adjoins the former Sandridge Post Office which was built in 1862 to the design of Victorian Public Works Department architect JJ Clark by builders Griffiths and Co. The design, apart from being executed in brick rather than bluestone, is ... more	B4788	Local
Former Post Office 172 Peel Street,, WINDSOR VIC 3181 - Property No B4689	A finely detailed and refreshingly innovative example of Edwardian Free Style design with Arts and Crafts leanings, the Windsor Post Office and Telephone Exchange was erected in 1907-8 to the design of H J MacKennal of the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs. The reinforced concrete frame which carries much of the structure was designed by John Monash and is an early example of the use of this technique in Australian building. The compact Peel Street facade is of red ... more	B4689	State
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
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
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
Former Post Office Residence 16 Piper Street, YARRAWONGA VIC 3730 - Property No B3043		B3043	File only
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
Former Post Office Hamilton Highway,, HEXHAM VIC 3273 - Property No B4821		B4821	File only
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

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