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Victorian Artists' Society Building 428-430 Albert Street, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B3064	In 1874 the Victorian Academy of Arts erected a bluestone gallery at the rear of their 1873 land grant. In 1888 the Academy amalgamated with the Australian Artists' Association to become the Victorian Artists' Society. Richard Speight won a competition for extensions to the old gallery and the present two storey brick structure was completed in 1893. Sculptured panels were intended to fill the blank spaces on the first floor. Most of Victoria's prominent artists have been ... more	B3064	State
Customs House 95 Cliff Street,, PORTLAND VIC 3305 - Property No B0683	The Portland Customs House was built in 1849-50 and is the oldest of its type in Victoria, and the only remaining customs house which survives from Victoria's pre-Separation period. The design of the Customs House at Portland is attributed to the Colonial Clerk of Works to the Port Phillip district Henry Ginn. The Portland Customs House is of historical and architectural significance to the State of Victoria. The Portland Customs House is the only surviving example of ... more	B0683	State
Former Suttons Music Store Former Darrods Store , Former Katie's World , Zara 290-292 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4510	Facade only, excluding ground floor. Classified: 04/09/1980	B4510	Local
St Andrew's School House Anglican School House 15 St Andrews Street, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B1028	St Andrews School House, corner Church and St. Andrews Streets, Brighton, was commenced in 1856 and completed in 1886 to designs by Architect Charles Webb. The symmetrically planned building, with projecting end wings and central porch, is constructed in random coursed, locally quarried ironstone, re-used from the 1851 church. The roof is slate and stucco details include parapets and finials, angle buttresses, tudor doorway, window surroundings and gable vents. St. ... more	B1028	State
Hitching Post - Marine Hotel 215 New Street, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B1642	Believed to have been used by poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. Classified; 03/08/1998	B1642	Local
Former Georges Store 162-168 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3899	The building known as Georges at 162-168 Collins Street, Melbourne, designed by Grainger & D'Ebro and completed in 1884,was extended to Little Collins Street to a design by Charles D'Ebro in 1891. It is of State importance as the only 19th century department store remaining substantially intact in Victoria and as the site of what became Melbourne's most exclusive department store. The Italianate Collins Street facade is notable for incorporating neo-classical features such ... more	B3899	State
D'Estaville 7 Barry Street, KEW VIC 3101 - Property No B1111	Builtin 1859for Sir William Foster Stawell, the colony's first Attorney-General and later Chief Justice. D'Estaville was designed by the prominent colonial architects Knight & Kerr, the designers of Melbourne's Parliament House, in the Classic Revival style. Classified: 25/05/1961 Classified: State: 03/08/1998	B1111	State
Former Camel Stables Dallas Brookes Drive,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B6772	Statement of Significance: This unusual building constructed in 1859 for the Botanic Gardens to house camels for the trans-Australia expedition (which was to be led by Burke and Wills) is significant at state level for its historical and architectural values. The building is constructed of large externally exposed principal parts apparently directly set in the ground. These were secured with similar cross bracing in most bays. Notwithstanding the partial external cladding over ... more	B6772	State
Cestria Glen 521 Glenferrie Road,, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B5044	The first (1891) and greatest American Romanesque Revival house in Australia, conceived and seen at the time as a major step towards a style suitable for the Australian climate, and a blow against the stucco and cast iron Italianate and eclectic work of the past: the architect, E G Kilburn, combined this style imaginatively with other sources and used a bracketted gable of an almost Swiss character; banked colonette around and above the bay window which hint at the so-called ... more	B5044	State
Beechworth Historic Park BEECHWORTH VIC 3747 - Property No L10200	Beechworth is located sympathetically to the topography, in a landscape of considerable beauty. Amidst a picturesque setting, of forested, gently undulating country; Beechworth's broad, tree lined streets, its interesting old parks and gardens and the considerable number of historic and architecturally important buildings, contribute to the significance of this goldfields town. Beechworth is a nineteenth century provincial town. It is significant as one of the best ... more	L10200	State

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