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	Gervasoni Homestead Yandoit Creek Road, YANDOIT HILLS VIC 3461 - Property No B3045	The homestead was established by northern Italian immigrant Carlo Gervasoni soon after his arrival in Victoria in 1852 and prior to 1860. He erected a two storey stone farmhouse with timber verandah, wine and cheese cellars, stables and farm building using a rubble stone construction technique characteristic of northern Italian vernacular traditions. The homestead at Yandoit, a district mostly settled and developed by Swiss Italian immigrants in the 1850s, was the largest ... more	B3045	Regional
	Former Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company - Geelong Woolstores Historic Area Savvas Rest 51 Moorabool Street,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4708	This building is one of the two known works from the practice of Christopher Porter remaining in Geelong today. He designed a facade of stone masonry to face an existing brick building, in 1856, for the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co. The company had recently established an office in Geelong under a mangement committee consisiting of Geelong notables such as J F Strachan M.L.C., Herbert Henty and W G McKellar. Although the stone has been painted, the parapet ... more	B4708	Local

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Gervasoni Homestead

Yandoit Creek Road, YANDOIT HILLS VIC 3461 - Property No B3045

The homestead was established by northern Italian immigrant Carlo Gervasoni soon after his arrival in Victoria in 1852 and prior to 1860. He erected a two storey stone farmhouse with timber verandah, wine and cheese cellars, stables and farm building using a rubble stone construction technique characteristic of northern Italian vernacular traditions. The homestead at Yandoit, a district mostly settled and developed by Swiss Italian immigrants in the 1850s, was the largest ... more

B3045

Regional

Former Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company - Geelong Woolstores Historic Area

Savvas Rest

51 Moorabool Street,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4708

This building is one of the two known works from the practice of Christopher Porter remaining in Geelong today. He designed a facade of stone masonry to face an existing brick building, in 1856, for the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co. The company had recently established an office in Geelong under a mangement committee consisiting of Geelong notables such as J F Strachan M.L.C., Herbert Henty and W G McKellar. Although the stone has been painted, the parapet ... more

B4708

Local