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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Royal Australian Army Medical Corps Training Depot RHSV 249 A'Beckett Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6139	Built in 1938 for the Army Medical Corps, this drill hall and offices is a superior and intact example from a distinctive public building design-type which successfully combined the prevailing Moderne influences with the formal classical revival solemniity desired for public architecture. It is also symbolic of a development of a continuing use-type (drill halls), reflecting a re-interpretation of what had been hitherto an almost sterotyped design response to the type and a ... more	B6139	State
St George's Anglican Church & Robert MacKenzie Pipe Organ 55 Lucknow Street, TRAVANCORE VIC 3032 - Property No B2890	Church Statement: An architecturally remarkable, if not wholly felicitous church-cum-hall built in 1925-6 to the design of Louis Williams. It is distinguished externally by the jerkin-head gable projecting over the bell and by the rectilinear fenestration below. Internally the hammer-beam trusses and exposed brickwork evoke the English Arts & Crafts while the extraordinary form of the pew-ends gives them the appearance of teetering over backwards. Classified ... more	B2890	Regional
General Post Office & Parcels Post Building Mail Exchange Building 670 - 696 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3399	Built during 1913-17 to the design of the office of the Commonwealth Home Affairs under Chief Architect, Horace J Mackennal, the seven storey steel-framed Mail Exchange Building is architecturally significant at the state level as an impressive example of the conservative classical design by the youthful Commonwealth government and in being distinguished by its Greek flavour, ten years ahead of Melbourne's mainstream Modern Greek Revival. Its architectural significance is enhanced ... more	B3399	Regional
Former London Stores 349 - 357 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6561	A reinforced concrete and steel emporium built to the then Melbourne height limit of 132 feet (40 metres) the London Stores was built in 1925 to a design by the architects H W and F B Tompkins. The building is in the same tradition of cubic classical revival forms expressed by others such as the Nicholas and Port Authority buildings, is one of the major emporiums built in Bourke Street in the period 1910-30 and is a significant landmark marking, together with the Post Office, the ... more	B6561	Regional
Margaret Baskerville - Thomas Bent Statue Cnr Nepean Highway & Bay Street,, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B6674	The statue is of Sir Thomas Bent (1838-1909), prominent Brighton politician and former Premier of Victoria (1904-1909). The large bronze figure is mounted on a tall granite plinth and is currently located beside a busy intersection on one of Melbourne's major highways, centrally situated in Bent's former Parliamentary constituency. The statue of Sir Thomas Bent, unveiled in 1913, is significant for historic and social reasons at a State level. The Statue is significant for ... more	B6674	State
Baptist Church 170-174 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0082	The grandest classical church building in Victoria, designed by Joseph Reed and built in 1861-2, incorporating part of the previous building of 1845 by John Gill to which the gallery was added internally. The tetrastyle prostyle Corinthian portico is set imposingly at the head of a flight of steps from Collins Street; with its finely detailed lintels and brackets it is the oldest complete example surviving on any non-residential building in the state. The low shop which has ... more	B0082	National
Manchester Unity Building 220 - 226 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4080	No event, other than the two World Wars, has had a greater effect on the morale, economic and social life of Australians than the Great Depression of the early 1930's. The Building of the IOOF Manchester Unity Building inspired and convinced Melbournians that the building slump caused by the Depression was almost over. The Manchester Unity IOOF purchased the property at the North West corner of Collins and Swanston Street in 1928. Previously known affectionately, by Melbournians ... more	B4080	State
Oscar Prowse Furniture Store 347 - 349 Burwood Road,, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B3861	Single storey slate roofed brick corner shop and residence built respectively in 1870 and 1885, the surviving verandah of the latter running along the building line of Glenferrie Road and like all the rest of the interior, long converted to a shop extension. Classified: 30/6/77 Part of Historic Area. Group Statement of Significance: Following the gothic stylistic precedent set by Crough and Wilson's Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1869, two commercial and one ... more	B3861	Local
Second Church Of Christ Scientist & Hill, Norman & Beard Pipe Organ 41 Cookson Street,, CAMBERWELL VIC 3124 - Property No B4985	An austere brick building of monumental proportions, designed by Bates Smart & McCutcheon and built in 1937, comprising a church, Sunday school and offices at various levels. The exterior consisits of overlapping cuboids of banded cream brickwork with patterned cornices and three large wrought iron entrance doors. The church interior, with louvered ceiling, focusses upon a large rostrum screen with geometric patterns. This building is of importance as a distinctive local ... more	B4985	State
House & Stables 63 Farnham Street,, FLEMINGTON VIC 3031 - Property No B5343		B5343	File only

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