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Name	Detail	File number	Level
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
Reg Parker - Untitled 8/73' Sculpture - Preston Library 266 Gower Street,, PRESTON VIC 3072 - Property No B6677	The sculpture is of Regional significance for artistic and cultural policy reasons. It is an example of classic formalist work by one of the early practitioners of the style in Australia. There is evidence of original, considered reasoning in the artist's conception of the work. Apart from the campuses of tertiary institutions, it is probably the earliest abstract sculpture in a public place in the northern region of Melbourne. The work is also socially significant as an example of ... more	B6677	Regional
Ernest Fries - Surveyor Of Public Environs - Alistair Knox Park 829 Main Road,, ELTHAM VIC 3095 - Property No B6745	This is a major work by the well known Melbourne sculptor, Ernest Fries. It exemplifies his abstract modernist style, which has elements of ancient symbolism associated with contemporary forms. The work in stainless steel is therefore of considerable local significance. Classified: 03/03/1997	B6745	Local
Parkview Hotel Cnr Scotchmer Street & St Georges Road,, FITZROY NORTH VIC 3068 - Property No B4130		B4130	File only
Coliban Park Homestead ELPHINSTONE VIC 3448 - Property No B1457	Abrick house extensively renovated/altered in 1936, with removal of the original verandah from the front of the house and use of granite to face sections of the house. Granite walls surrounding the house and garden areas are another unusual feature - many of them being incomplete.	B1457	File only
Maranoa Gardens And Beckett Park Cnr Kireep Road & Yarrbat Avenue, BALWYN VIC 3103 - Property No G13080	Maranoa Gardens, commenced in 1901 as a private garden composed entirely of Australasian flora by J.M. Watson, given over to public ownership on Watson's death in 1926 and maintained since then, is of State cultural significance: - For the manner in which its development has a strong ability to demonstrate attitudes to Australian flora, especially its horticultural use; this is manifest in the early date of Watson's development of the garden (1901-26), the continuing ... more	G13080	State
Great Otway National Park CAPE OTWAY VIC 3233 - Property No L10177	File note 31/05/2012; This file now includes L10174 (Melba Gully State Park), L10175 (Aire River Basin), and L10178 (Marengo-Cape Otway Coastal Area) This is an area of outstanding scientific interest, with important botanical and geological coastal landscapes, rural landscapes and waterfalls. The numerous archaeological and shipwreck sites along the coast are of great historical interest. L10174 Melba Gully State Park A small park with remnants of significant ... more	L10177	State
Werribbee Park Garden K Road, WERRIBEE VIC 3030 - Property No G13045	See also B1475	G13045	File only
Bulga and Tarra Valley National Park BALOOK VIC 3971 - Property No L10248	These areas are of particular significance because of the remnant plant communities, faunal habitats and visual landscape types within them. Myrtle Beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii) closed-forests represent the Antarctic element in Australian vegetation, and are confined to moist, sheltered localities in Tasmania and in southern and eastern Victoria. Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is restricted to south-eastern Australia where few trees now remain. Bulga and Tarra ... more	L10248	State
Farm Worker's Block & Idiot Ward - Former Mont Park Asylum Wattle Avenue,, MACLEOD VIC 3085 - Property No B6939	The Farmworkers Block and Idiot Block, completed in 1912 and 1914 respectively, and designed by S. Brittingham, Chief Architect PWD, are of Regional historic, social and architectural significance. Historically, the former Farmworkers Block and Idiot Block are significant as the earliest buildings of what eventually became the Mont Park Lunatic Asylum, the most advanced and largest mental institution of the early 20th century. They also demonstrate the new therapeutic model ... more	B6939	State

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