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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Synagogue City Free Kindergarten 275-285 Exhibition Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0444	The City Free Kindergarten is a simple brick structure with pedimented gables, brick pilasters and arched windows with brick dressings. It was constructed in 1859-60 as a Jewish School for the Michveh Yisrael Synagogue. The architects were Knight and Keer who also designed Parliament House, Melbourne. The building was used for worship until 1877 and since then has served several uses. It became a kindergarten in 1920. This was one of the earliest synagogues in Melbourne and a ... more	B0444	State
Former Synagogue 74 McKillop Street, (Cnr Yarra Street), GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4767	An elaborate and early example of synagogue design in Victoria, erected in 1861 to designs by John Young of Young and Honey. The facade has a heavily bracketted broken pediment incorporating a Diocletian window; pilasters with flanking colonettes, and mannerist rusticated voussoirs about the entrance. Classified: 04/09/1980 Revised:03/08/1998	B4767	State
Former Residence Former Synagogue 32 Lord Street,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No B5923	A most unusual brick building, erected as a home for James Dolphin in 1911-12 but used as a synagogue and Sabbath School by the Brunswick Talmun Torah from 1942 until its closure in 1987, during which time it was the only synagogue north of the City of Melbourne. The building is notable for its extraordinary portico (of timber?) with oversized entablature supported on paired Ionic columns, its keyhole-shaped front door and windows giving a somewhat Moresque character; and ... more	B5923	Regional

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Former Synagogue

City Free Kindergarten

275-285 Exhibition Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0444

The City Free Kindergarten is a simple brick structure with pedimented gables, brick pilasters and arched windows with brick dressings. It was constructed in 1859-60 as a Jewish School for the Michveh Yisrael Synagogue. The architects were Knight and Keer who also designed Parliament House, Melbourne. The building was used for worship until 1877 and since then has served several uses. It became a kindergarten in 1920. This was one of the earliest synagogues in Melbourne and a ... more

B0444

State

Former Synagogue

74 McKillop Street, (Cnr Yarra Street), GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4767

An elaborate and early example of synagogue design in Victoria, erected in 1861 to designs by John Young of Young and Honey. The facade has a heavily bracketted broken pediment incorporating a Diocletian window; pilasters with flanking colonettes, and mannerist rusticated voussoirs about the entrance. Classified: 04/09/1980 Revised:03/08/1998

B4767

State

Former Residence

Former Synagogue

32 Lord Street,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No B5923

A most unusual brick building, erected as a home for James Dolphin in 1911-12 but used as a synagogue and Sabbath School by the Brunswick Talmun Torah from 1942 until its closure in 1987, during which time it was the only synagogue north of the City of Melbourne. The building is notable for its extraordinary portico (of timber?) with oversized entablature supported on paired Ionic columns, its keyhole-shaped front door and windows giving a somewhat Moresque character; and ... more

B5923

Regional