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Former Cable Tram Engine House 187-201 Abbotsford Street,, NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 - Property No B3890	The North Melbourne Engine House building, possibly designed by the distinguished architect Alexander Davidson, is of national architectural, historical and technological significance as the most complete and original example of an engine house of Melbourne's former cable tram system, which was the most extensive cable tram system in the world operated by a single authority. The east elevation is composed around a great entry door and single gable with large circular vent ... more	B3890	National
Charterisville 77 - 79 Burke Road North, IVANHOE VIC 3079 - Property No B1084	Charterisville, 77 - 79 Burke Road North, Ivanhoe, was built circa 1840 for David Charteris McArthur of the Bank of Australasia. Construction is a combination of brick, bluestone and locally quarried sandstone, with a slate roof. The house, believed to have been built in stages, presented until recently a long, symmetrical facade, with twin projecting rooms and bay windows about a central verandah. Long flanking wings returned to form a courtyard. Charterisville,is a dwelling ... more	B1084	State
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
Officer House 55 Outlook Drive, EAGLEMONT VIC 3084 - Property No B3281	Group Statement with Annear & Chadwick Houses. A group of three houses is set out along a steeply sloping hillside at Eaglemont; each was to the design of Harold Desbrowe Annear and built during the first few years of the twentieth century. By 1918 H D Annear was to become one of the early Australian Architects to design after the new European Functionalism in his plans for Broceliande in Orrong Road, Toorak; at Eaglemont, in the years 1902-3 however, he seems to have been ... more	B3281	Local
Former Bank Of New South Wales Westpac Bank 190 - 192 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4326	Built in 1931. A typical facade of the eclectic period of the early 1930's, well designed and well built, featuring exotic decorative styling, in this case based on Egyptian motifs, carried out in terracotta. Classified: 06/04/1978 Revised: 03/08/1998	B4326	State
Chronic Wards - Mont Park Asylum Waiora Road,, MACLEOD VIC 3085 - Property No B6937	The Chronic Block at Mont Park Hospital, erected in 1915-17 to the design of Public Works Department architects, probably principally S. Brittingham, is architecturally and historically significant at the State level. In historical terms, it is one of the two most important asylums in Victoria using Pavilion - style wards, graphically demonstrating changed attitudes to care of the insane at the turn of the century in reaction to the palace-block Lunatic Asylums of the mid 19th ... more	B6937	State
Shops 72 - 74 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6549	A pair of two-storey shops constructed in 1860 as part of a terrace of eight but subsequently remodelled in its external decoration. It is part of a significant early terrace group which is critical to the character of the Bourke Hill precinct. Classified: 06/06/1994	B6549	Regional
Hoyts Cinema Centre 134-144 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6961	The Hoyts Cinema Centre was designed in 1966 by Sydney architect Peter Muller and completed in 1969. It was the first mult-cinema complex in Australia. Based on a design for a similar project in Newcastle in 1959 by the same architect, it displays Muller's interest in structural engineering as a means to inspire architectural forms, such as the wide eaves overhangs similar to Chinese timber bracketing systems. This results in a most unusual upside-down pagoda-like form. There ... more	B6961	State
Miles House 200 The Esplanade,, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B7170	The Miles House was designed in 1964 by Rex Patrick of the notable firm Chancellor & Patrick for his wife's cousin, Mr. Norman Miles. Completed in 1966, the house, sited on the 'Golden Mile' and environs immediately along the beachfront at Brighton is large and planned on three levels around a secluded north facing garden with a panoramic view over Port Phillip Bay to the west. The design features an interplay between long horizontal lines of windows and flat roofs, vertical ... more	B7170	Demolished
House 67 Chapman Street,, NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 - Property No B2457	A house with a definite character that has been created by contrasting elements, in particular, a stucco two storey bay window, painted quoin work and large ground floor arched carriage way opening running through a side wing. Classified: 02/09/1971	B2457	Local

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