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187971

Drummond Street - Historic Area

Drummond Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B3290

The area is defined by Gratton Street to the north, Victoria Street to the south and the eastern side between Pelham and Queensbury Street is excluded. A significant street of nineteenth century housing still largely intact, with examples from each decade in the street's development. This is one of the best coherent areas of nineteenth century terrace housing in Melbourne and represents the variety of types, styles, and standards common to the period. Of particular note within ... more

B3290

State
67745

Former Faraday Street State School 112

Kathleen Syme Education Centre

249 Faraday Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B3461

A multi-coloured brick building with a slate roof completed in 1877 as Primary School No 112. Designed by Reed and Barnes and built by Thomas Cockram & Co. Windows were enlarged in 1908, galleries removed and some unsympathetic brick wings added at the rear in 1927. Now used by the Royal Women's Hospital Teaching Unit. Classified: 21/02/1974 Revised: 03/08/1998

B3461

State
 

Former Mutual Store

Part of Council of Adult Education Centre

256 - 262 Flinders Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6594

The original Mutual Store was established in 1872 and the present building resulted from a major reconstruction in 1891 to a design by the architect Reed Smart and Tappin. The Mutual Store was one of several large variety warehouses in Flinders Street that developed the mail-order business from the earliest dock-side warehouses. A major competitor was the nearby Ball and Welch (the building was designed by the same architects). It is an example of Melbourne's commercial power in the ... more

B6594

Regional
67854

St Joseph's Catholic Chapel

102 Power Street,, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B4166

A small brick building of 1856-8, described as a schoolroom of "some architectural pretensions", which appears to have also functioned as a Roman Catholic chapel and meeting hall, a combination favoured by the church for financial reasons. The wings or transepts are believed to date from the 1860s. The porch has been rebuilt. Classified: 08/12/1988

B4166

Local
188985

St John's Catholic Church Complex

1251 Hoddle Street, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3121 - Property No B6022

A fascinating complex of three churches and associated buildings, dating from the mid 1860s to 1930, graphically illustrating the history of the East Melbourne Catholic parish. Each of the churches is of architectural significance in its own right: Church of 1865 was built as a combined chapel/school and is a rare ecclesiastical example of W Wardell 's use of brickwork. The church of 1900 by McCrae and Toole is a unique design, in what might be termed "red-brick ... more

B6022

Regional
 

St Faiths Anglican Church

8 Charles Street, GLEN IRIS VIC 3146 - Property No B2818

St Faith's Anglican Church, designed by architects Mockridge Stahle and Mitchell, was built in 1957-58 on a site purchased by the Anglican Diocese in Burwood in 1891. The design, by a young Melbourne architectural firm, is an early modern building of striking simplicity and innovative form, influenced by churches of post-war Europe. The church contains a collection of well executed modern fittings and furniture, and stained glass windows, designed by the architects ... more

B2818

File only
67375

Anderson Street Bridge

Morrell Bridge

Anderson Street, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B1598

The Anderson Street or Morell Bridge over the River Yarra constructed in 1899 and wrongly attributed to celebrated soldier and civil engineer, John Monash, was designed and constructed by Sydney based engineers, Carter, Gummow and Co, patentees of the Monier Construction System in Australia. The bridge, designed as a Monier arch structure of three equal river spans with concrete abutments, macadamised roadway, concrete footpaths and cast iron balustrade panels, is the first ... more

B1598

State
67420

Former Police Station & Old Police Cells

Former Bourke Street West Police Barracks ,  Former Bourke Street West Police Station and Cells

621 - 629 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B2477

Classified as a group, the Bourke Street West Police Station and attendant Cell Block have no matching examples as to function and design in Melbourne's central business district. Both were built under the direction of the Public Works Department: the brick police station, a well-proportioned statement with restrained gothic elements and carriageway entrance, was built in 1887-8 to the design of S.E. Bindley and S.C. Brittingham and the basalt cell block with its extended ... more

B2477

Regional
67467

Former Leviathan Stores

271 - 281 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6551

The Leviathan Clothing Store was built in 1912-13 to a design by architects Bates Peebles and Smart. Designed in the Beaux-Arts idiom the steel-framed "shinning white cement" (as was the nearby and later Myer Emporium). The building was the first of the major emporiums built in Bourke Street, in the first thirty years of this century, which re-established the city as the principle retail area. Classified: 06/06/1994

B6551

Regional
67502

St John Of God Hospital

29 Heathfield Road, BRIGHTON,Bayside City

29 Heathfield Road, BRIGHTON EAST VIC 3187 - Property No B1025

B1025

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