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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Courcelle Organ - Uniting Church McCracken Street,, KENSINGTON VIC 3031 - Property No B6364	One of the seven known organs exported to Victoria in the 1860s by London organbuilder John Courcelle, this single-manual instrument of five stops is thought to have been placed in the Wesleyan Church, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda before its installation at Kensington, possibly in the 1920's. The instrument is intact, apart from the introduction of electric blowing, and retains its gabled Gothic case of three flats, oak console fittings and bold voicing. Classified: 04/05/1989	B6364	Regional
Former United Kingdom Hotel McDonald's Restaurant 199 Queens Parade,, CLIFTON HILL VIC 3068 - Property No B5806	Designed in 1938 by J H Wardrop, this is Victoria's most articulate example in the Moderne manner. This hotel was a development in three dimensions of the theme so ably expressed in the architects contemporary Al kira House. The building is greatly enhanced by its near island siting and is externally and internally near original, with the exception of post-war rear additions. The 1957 addition to the South is excluded. Classified: 26/03/1987	B5806	State
Frederick Taylor Pipe Organ - Armadale Uniting Church 86A Kooyong Road,, ARMADALE VIC 3143 - Property No B6410	The pipe organ built in 1912-14 is the most substantial example of an instrument by the Hawthorn organbuilder Frederick Taylor to survive. The organ was notable at the time for its symphonic tonal style. While the original action was converted to electro-pneumatic in 1975 and some minor tonal additions made at this time, almost all of the original pipework survives. The organ is significant for historic, aesthetic and technical reasons at a regional level. The pipe ... more	B6410	Regional
Carlton Community Hall Carlton Mechanics Institute 150 Princes Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B4492	This two storey brick hall was built in three weeks for two thousand pounds in 1877 for Hon James Munro, M L A by John Pigdon, a prominent local councillor and builder. Later in 1877 a substantial and more elaborately detailed rendered brick extension was added on to the front of the building which has been used by the Carlton Mechanics Instutite and for various community activities. Classified: 03/05/1979	B4492	Local
Manchester Unity Hall Main Road, WANDILIGONG VIC 3744 - Property No B3234	A brick hall of 1874, of interest as representing the activities of Friendly Societies in country towns and for the supper room below the stage at the rear. Classified: 10/05/1973	B3234	Local
Laurie Pipe Organ, St Columba's Uniting Church Cnr Raymond and Macalister Streets, SALE VIC 3850 - Property No B3860		B3860	File only
Manchester Unity Oddfellows Hall 26 Pasco Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B1684	Classified: 23/04/1964	B1684	Local
Mount Beauty Community Centre Kiewa Crescent,, MOUNT BEAUTY VIC 3699 - Property No B6900	The Mount Beauty Commumity Centre, designed and built by the SEC engineering department, was completed in 1951. It is historically and socially significant at the Local level. Historically, it is significant as the major public building in one of the few 'company towns' in Victoria. The Kiewa Hydro electricity scheme was the only such scheme to be built in Victoria, and involved the construction of the entire town of Mount Beauty in the 1950s. Built for the workers involved in ... more	B6900	Local
Community Of The Holy Name Complex Retreat House 32-48 Cavanagh Street,, CHELTENHAM VIC 3192 - Property No B7112	The Community of the Holy Name religious complex, including the original building of 1892, chapel of 1958-60, the Community House of 1936 and curtilage, is of national architectural and historical significance. Architecturally, the 1892 Retreat House, designed by Hyndman and Bates, is of note for the distinctive Gothic elements that give the building a Medieval institutional character. The Community House is an impressive example of a religious structure in a restrained Spanish ... more	B7112	National
George Fincham Organ - Uniting Church Cnr Neill and Macarthur Streets,, BALLARAT NORTH VIC 3350 - Property No B7124	A two-manual instrument, originally of 20 speaking stops, built in 1874 for the earlier Wesleyan Church in Lydiard Street, Ballarat by George Fincham and moved to its present location in 1892. Although the action and console have been changed, the instrument is of significance for the survival of a large corpus of early Fincham pipework, its excellent location and sound in a fine acoustical environment, and particularly its casework designed by Ballarat architect J A Doane with ... more	B7124	Regional

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