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Name	Detail	File number	Level
W Class Trams MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6907	Melbourne has long been a place characterised by its trams. Essentially the image is of W Series trams - the 305 operating and servicable trams of Classes W - W7, built 1923-1956. Of timber framed superstructure and fine joinery, with dropped centre design and saloons at both ends, the trams are a distinctly Australasian development. Operating through the central city and developed to facilitate suburban expansion in the post World War One era, these robust trams are the ... more	B6907	State
Myer Emporium & Napier Waller Murals 314-336 & 412 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4829	The Myer Emporium holds a unique place in Melbourne's social and retail business history. The department store occupies a double site between Bourke and Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets (Post Office Place) that was gradually amalgamated by the energetic Sidney Myer from 1911. The complex of buildings, mainly constructed in stages during the 1920s and 1930s to designs by the leading commercial architects of the time, H W & F B Tompkins, are of State significance. Together, ... more	B4829	State
Market Gardeners Tram Plateway Market Gardeners Vehicle Metal Traffic Strips Centre Dandenong Road, near Grange Road Junction,, HEATHERTON VIC 3202 - Property No B2252	The Centre Dandenong Road market gardeners' tram rail is historically significant at the State level to the extent that it demonstrates a past way of life, being the practice of conveying vegetables to City markets by means of horse drawn wagons guided by iron rails. It recalls the once extensive system of such tracks, or "plates", having the Point Nepean Highway as their spine, and was unique when built for its design, which represened an advance over previous forms. The ... more	B2252	State
Former Warehouse Museum of Chinese Australian History 22-24 Cohen Place,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4529	A four-storey red brick warehouse, built in c.1890 and now redeveloped as the Museum of Chinese Australian History. A significant example of the large warehouses constructed in the Little Bourke Street area in the last century, given greater prominence now as the civic focus of Chinatown. Classified: 06/06/1994	B4529	Regional
Former Mcpherson's Hardware Showrooms And Warehouse 546 - 566 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4095	The former McPherson's Pty. Ltd. Building was erected in 1934-35 as a reinforced concrete warehouse, office and showroom for the hardware merchant empire headed by Sir Wiliam McPherson. S.P. Calder, Reid and Pearson were architects in association for the design of this international style building with a facade of broad, horizontal bands of glass, terrcotta and black "carrarra" structural glass. Stainless steel letters in a modern type identified the premises, as did the enormous ... more	B4095	State
Invergowrie House & Garden 21 Coppin Grove, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B1015	Invergowrie was built after 1845 for businessman and politician Sir James Palmer. The rambling bluestone house, on an elevated site, has been extensively extended and harmoniously altered, externally. The slate roofed, single storied, (originally with attic), house, features projecting gabled wings with bargeboards, decorated dormer windows, oriels and a bellcote. The old dining room and its joinery are most distinguished. Invergowrie is an early house in the uncommon ... more	B1015	State
Barwonleigh Homestead Inverleigh/Winchester Road, INVERLEIGH VIC 3321 - Property No B1447	The original Barwonleigh station tooks its name by virtue of being sited at the junction of the Barwon and Leigh Rivers. The original homestead consisted of 4 bluestone rooms constructed in about 1851 and this was later extended to 15 rooms including a ballroom, an addition of 1919. The house was destroyed by fire on March 1st, 1965. A reconstruction tookplace in 1966 and adhered as faithfully as possible to the original design and features.Original features which did survive ... more	B1447	File only
Flindersgate Carpark Including facades of former Ball & Welch & Commercial Travellers Club Commercial Travellers Association (facade) , Ball & Welch Department Store (facade) , Flinders Fair 172- 192 Flinders Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4536	The Flindersgate carpark, constructed in 1990, and designed by Bruce Henderson & Associates, is of regional architectural, aesthetic and historic significance for incorporating the facades of the former Ball & Welch Department Store (1899) and the Commercial Travellers Club (1898). Aesthetically, though greatly altered, the two facades incorporated into the development are important as making a major contribution to one of the most notable historic streetscapes in ... more	B4536	Regional
Retaining Wall Flinders Street Extension,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6442	The Flinders Street Extension Retaining Wall is considered to be historically and culturally significant at the State level. It is a major engineering work associated with the redevelopment of the Docklands area in the late 19th century, and also graphically illustrates the location of Batman's Hill, a place associated with Melbourne's foundation. Batman's own house appears to have been located in the vicinity of the crest of the wall. Constructed by the Victorian Railways in ... more	B6442	State
Town House 115 Grey Street,, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002 - Property No B0189	The townhouse was erected in 1853-54 by Thomas N Wilson, a produce and grain merchant. Alterations and additions were made in 1859 and 1962. Wilson occupied the premises until the 1890's. He sold it in 1907 to Henry McDonough, another produce and grain merchant, whose family owned the house until 1966. The two storey bluestone facade has a single storey verandah. This is one of the oldest houses in East Melbourne and interesting for its long association with Thomas N Wilson and ... more	B0189	State

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