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Victorian Spiritualists' Union Building

71 - 73 A'Beckett Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6536

A two-storey bluestone former warehouse, built in 1853-54 for the entrepreneur Hugh Glass, and originally used by McClure Valentine and Company, wine and spirit merchants. It is one of the earliest remaining warehouses in the city and more architecturally pretentious than many of the gold-rush era. Classified: 06/06/1994

B6536

Regional
67365

Harold Freedman 'Legend Of Fire' Mosaic

456 Albert Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6671

B6671

File only
194914

Vaughan Griffin House

52 Darebin Street,, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B3817

The Vaughan Griffin House, designed by renowned architect Walter Burley Griffin (no relation) in c.1922 is of architectural and historical importance at the State level. The house is important as a substantially intact and rare example of a work by Walter Burley Griffin, one of Australia's most original and fascinating architects. The house is an excellent example of both Griffin's knitlock system and his domestic oeuvre and it remains one of the most resolved examples of ... more

B3817

State
67416

Former General Post Office

338-352 Bourke Street and 188-218 Elizabeth Street and 327-337 Little bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0445

The Melbourne General Post Office is of great social and historical significance for its association with the development of Melbourne into a major city and as the focal point for social and cultural events as varied as New Year's Eve revelries and Armistice Day celebrations. It is only the second post office building to occupy the site since 1841 when the land was set aside as a post office reserve. The postal services for Victoria for more than a century. Identified as the ... more

B0445

National
187134

Former GJ Coles Building

David Jones Menswear

299-307 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B5791

The Coles Store in Bourke Street, completed in 1929 and extended in 1939, designed by noted architect Harry Norris, is significant at the State level for architectural and historical reasons. Architecturally, the Coles Store is one of the most exuberant and colourful interwar buildings in the city, featuring mauve terracotta facades in a broadly 'Commercial Gothic' style, with extensive coloured Jazz Moderne (a subset of Art Deco) detailing. The tiling of the former Coles ... more

B5791

State
 

Edrington Garden

132 High Street, BERWICK VIC 3806 - Property No G13069

File note 28/06/2012: G13069 amalgamated & filed with B4461.

G13069

File only
67498

Gordon Terrace

90-100 Carlton Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B1929

A terrace of six largetwo storey houses built 1883-85 for John Gordon, slate merchant. Gordon owned the premises until 1902. The two storeyrendered brick structure has a two storey cast iron verandah. Each house is punctuated by a pedimented name plate on the parapet. Gordon terrace is typical of boom style domestic architecture. Composed of six repetitive elements, it is of interesting length and enhanced by the stepped form following the slope of the site. The individual ... more

B1929

Local
90895

St Andrew's Anglican Church and Organ

New Street, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B1027

A church of which the original bluestone portion, dating from 1856-7, is quintessentially Webbian. The finely detailed west facade, with its gable belfry, bracketted string course, triple lancet windows and corner buttresses surmounted by pinnacles, is characteristic of Webb's church designs. The building was largely destroyed by fire in 1961, and the original nave was then incorporated as a transept in a new church (not included in the classification) by Louis ... more

B1027

Regional
67548

South Australian Insurance Building

483 - 485 Collins Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3058

The South Australian Insurance Building was erected in 1888 by the New Zealand Insurance Company as their Melbourne offices. The architects were Oakden, Addison and Kemp and the builder, C. Butler. The facade of the four storey brick structure with attic and basement consists of a series of gothic arcades and is faced with terracotta and ceramic tiles with stucco mouldings and some granite columns. This is a significant example of commercial gothic revival architecture in ... more

B3058

State
67592

Old Vicarage - St Barnabas' Church of England

Old Vicarage - St Barnaba's Anglican Chuech

86 Balwyn Road, BALWYN VIC 3103 - Property No B3268

1883. Among the occupants of the Vicarage were Rev. Reginald Stevens (1888-94) later Bishop of Newcastle and Rev. Roscoe Wilson (1912-14) Dean of Melbourne. Building now used as office, curate's flat and classrooms.

B3268

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