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Former John Sharp & Sons, Timber Merchants General Motors Ltd , International Harvester Company 171 City Road,, SOUTHBANK VIC 3006 - Property No B6086	A large relatively plain two-storey brick and stucco building first constructed for John Sharp and sons, timber merchants, in 1912 and subsequently occupied by General Motors Limited (1927-1936) and by the International Harvester Company (1940 -1974+) for showrooms and offices. The large corrugated iron workshops at the rear were first constructed for General Motors in 1927. Despite replacement of windows and alterations of the line of the parapet along City Road the building ... more	B6086	State
12 Jolimont Terrace 12 Jolimont Terrace, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B1670	Individual Classification. One of the most distinctive examples of terrace house architecture in Melbourne and a significant example of the work of the architects Crouch and Wilson. This substantial two storey stone structure was erected in 1868 by Thomas Newton for Alexander Leslie. The unrendered facades are unusual and are particularly important for the intricate and early use of brickwork mouldings to the parapet and openings producing a most effective chromatic pattern. ... more	B1670	State
St Aloysius' Catholic Church & J W Wolff Pipe Organ 233 Balaclava Road,, CAULFIELD VIC 3162 - Property No B6028	Church Statement of Significance. An imposing brick church, designed by Bart Moriarty and opened in 1924, comprising a tall clerestoried nave with aisles, 40m tower and spire, apsidal chancel, nun's tribune and sacristies. A late manifestation of what was praised at the time as "Gothic copyism", this building is notable for its elongated proportions, the unbroken roof ridge over the nave and sanctuary ridge, and the spacious interior with Oamaru stone altars, reredos and ... more	B6028	Regional
Margaret Baskerville 'James Cuming Memorial' Cnr Nicholson & Hyde Streets,, YARRAVILLE VIC 3013 - Property No B6987	The monument is of state significance possessing historical, technical and social merit. The work was a memorial to the notable Footscray philanthropist and former mayor of the municipality, James Cuming. The achievement of Margaret Baskerville was described at the time as being "a world's record for a woman sculptor" because she carved and completed all the work on the bust and the putti figures herself. Baskerville was the foremost Australian female sculptor of her period. ... more	B6987	State
Jubilee & Queen's Terraces 118-144 Nott Street,, PORT MELBOURNE VIC 3207 - Property No B4896	A most unusually intact pair of single storey terraced houses built for Alexander Gunn in 1887 and owned by the City of Port Melbourne. Each terrace, built mainly of rendered brick, consists of seven houses, each with a front verandah, and there is a broken roof pediment over the central house and a smaller roof pediment at each end. The slightly concave pattern picket fence with individual spade pickets covers the full length of the fourteen houses and has intermediate ... more	B4896	Local
Former Jaques Ltd 1 Palmer Street (Cnr Griffith Street), RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No B5662	Jaques Ltd is located on an island site of one hectare in Richmond. The factory comprises a machine shop, boiler shop assembly area and a spare parts department; there is also space in the buildings given over to offices. The buildings are constructed of brick with a galvanised roof covering most of the site. The machinery and plant mostly dates from the 1940's through to the 1980's; much of the equipment was updated in 1964/1965. Machinery was also aquired from A H McDonald in ... more	B5662	Local
St Johns Anglican Church & Organ Cnr Barkley and Thompson Streets,, DUNOLLY VIC 3472 - Property No B1861	Church Statement of Significance: Designed by Vahland & Getzschmann and built in 1866-7 in a striking combination of variegated sandstone with dressings of red brick, this church, in a rudimentary Decorated Gothic style, comprises a nave, polygonal chancel of compressed proportions and somewhat Germanic character, and northern entrance tower, never completed. It contains a pipe organ built in 1879 by George Fincham. Church Classified: 'Regional' 20/04/1989 Revised: ... more	B1861	Local
J C Brown Manufacturing Pty Ltd 7 Barwon Terrace,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B5723	Classified 25/12/1986	B5723	Local
Djerriwarrh Creek Bridge Western Highway, BACCHUS MARSH VIC 3340 - Property No B1589	Djerriwarrh Creek Bridge, is a sandstone bridge constructed over the Djerriwarrh Creek in 1858-59 for the Road and Bridges Department of the Board of Land and Works. The single arched structure has piers framing the opening and substantial abutments constructed in a plinth, all in rusticated masonry. There is a string course at pavement level and the piers elaborate the balustrade. Djerriwarrh Creek Bridge, is an early surviving stone bridge distinctive for its single ... more	B1589	State
St Jude's Anglican Church ELDORADO VIC 3746 - Property No B2892	A church of 1870 in a rudimentary early English Gothic style, but particularly pleasing for the soft local granite of which it is built and for the ornamental timber porch and bell-cote, both probably of later date. Classified 18/8/1988	B2892	Regional

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