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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Ravenswood 40 Beauview Parade, IVANHOE EAST VIC 3079 - Property No B3005	A large mansion erected c.1890 for financier J W Kennedy, believed to have been designed by J Smith. A two-storey arcade of corinthian columns faces the structure and returns. There are corinthian on tuscan pilasters at the corners and a single-storey pedimented porch on corinthian columns. Festoons, cornices, balustrades and parapets are features. One of the few such mansions erected in the northern outer areas of Melbourne, Ravenswood is representative of a way of life, now ... more	B3005	State
Old Lodge - Ravenswood Homestead RAVENSWOOD VIC 3453 - Property No B1913		B1913	File only
Ravenswood Homestead Calder Highway, RAVENSWOOD VIC 3453 - Property No B1350	The property was originally settled as a sheep run in the 1840's. The property passed into the hands of the Gibson brothers and their brother-in-law, Fredrick Fenton in 1848. Gold was discovered on the property in 1851, by which time Fredrick Fenton had become the sole owner. This was the first discovery of gold in the Bendigo District. Controversy surrounds the date of the building of the homestead. Some sources state 1857, however, as ads in the local paper for the ... more	B1350	State
Ravenswood Siding - Melbourne/Echuca Railway Line RAVENSWOOD VIC 3453 - Property No B6506	The remaining section of this siding is significant at the State and National levels in that it demonstrates the use of chaired rail by the Victorian Railways Department for the Trunk Lines and, more particularly, the following stages in the evolution of this long obsolete method of permanent way construction: a) The use of joint chairs and intermediate chairs at regular intervals inferring that the original wrought iron rail lengths were 12 feet, as is known through documentary ... more	B6506	National