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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Underground Public Conveniences Group Collins, Elizabeth, Flinders, Queen and Russell Streets,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6802	Statement of Significance. Melbourne's underground conveniences are of social and architectural significance at a national level as an unrivalled and distinctive central-city grouping reflective of an important era of sanitary, technological and social reform in the first decades of the twentieth century. The collection includes Melbourne's first underground toilet, Melbourne's first public toilet for women, Melbourne's oldest extant public toilet, and Australia's oldest known ... more	B6802	National
Underground Public Conveniences - Parliament Place Reserve Cnr Macarthur Street and Parliament Place,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6791	Designed and constructed by the City of Melbourne Architects Office, under the direction of Eric W Bilby, and completed in early 1939, the underground toilet in the Parliament Place reserve is of State architectural, aesthetic and historic significance. Architecturally, the above-ground structure of the toilet and its landscaping is of interest for the use of circular geometry, rock faced sandstone, and modern influenced metal work in the gates, and in the grills of the ventilation ... more	B6791	Demolished
Underground Public Conveniences Russell Street (South side of intersection with Bourke Street),, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6720	The Russell Street underground conveniences (male and female) are of social and architectural significance at a national level as Melbourne's first underground toilet,Melbourne's first public toilet for women, Melbourne's oldest extant public toilet, and Australia's oldest known underground toilet. Their historical associations are significant in relation to the achievement of gender equality, architectural uniqueness, sanitary reform, as evidence of a heritage of public street life ... more	B6720	National

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Underground Public Conveniences Group

Collins, Elizabeth, Flinders, Queen and Russell Streets,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6802

Statement of Significance. Melbourne's underground conveniences are of social and architectural significance at a national level as an unrivalled and distinctive central-city grouping reflective of an important era of sanitary, technological and social reform in the first decades of the twentieth century. The collection includes Melbourne's first underground toilet, Melbourne's first public toilet for women, Melbourne's oldest extant public toilet, and Australia's oldest known ... more

B6802

National

Underground Public Conveniences - Parliament Place Reserve

Cnr Macarthur Street and Parliament Place,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B6791

Designed and constructed by the City of Melbourne Architects Office, under the direction of Eric W Bilby, and completed in early 1939, the underground toilet in the Parliament Place reserve is of State architectural, aesthetic and historic significance. Architecturally, the above-ground structure of the toilet and its landscaping is of interest for the use of circular geometry, rock faced sandstone, and modern influenced metal work in the gates, and in the grills of the ventilation ... more

B6791

Demolished

Underground Public Conveniences

Russell Street (South side of intersection with Bourke Street),, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6720

The Russell Street underground conveniences (male and female) are of social and architectural significance at a national level as Melbourne's first underground toilet,Melbourne's first public toilet for women, Melbourne's oldest extant public toilet, and Australia's oldest known underground toilet. Their historical associations are significant in relation to the achievement of gender equality, architectural uniqueness, sanitary reform, as evidence of a heritage of public street life ... more

B6720

National