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Name	Detail	File number	Level
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
Records Office (Former) 287-295 Queen Street, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B2936	The former Records Office was built in 1900 - 1904 to the design of S E Bindley, District Architect of the Public Works Department. The contractor was Bartley Dinsmore. It was originally built to house official records including records of births, deaths and marriages, as well as legal records and wills. The building is in the French Second Empire style, a style considered appropriate for a city striving for Parisian grandeur. The main building has a rusticated basement and ... more	B2936	State
Former Post Office Newport TAFE 1 Parker Street & Cnr Cole Street,, WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B2737	The oldest Post Office building in Victoria and was, at the time of its erection, one of the largest and most important, as it was the centre of the Maritime mail. Built in 1859 to a Public Works Department design, it was a simple, slate-roofed, two-storey stone structure with stucco facades and with a single-storey verandah facing Hobsons Bay. The first floor provided living quarters for the Postmaster; the ground floor contained kitchen and mail room. Extensions in 1895 ... more	B2737	Local
RAAF Officers' Mess Maher Road, LAVERTON VIC 3028 - Property No B5613	This building, designed in 1938 by D B Windebank under H J Mackennal of the Commonwealth Department of the Interior (Works and Services Branch) as part of the pre World War 11 expansion of the RAAF, illustrates the final recognition of the permanent and prominent role of air power in Australia's defence. In contrast to the small scale timber frame informality of earlier structures, this is a substantial structure of red brick and terracotta tile, formally composed around twin ... more	B5613	Local
Post Office - Rushworth Historic Area High Street, RUSHWORTH VIC 3612 - Property No B4764	Historic Area Statement of Significance: Rushworth is a gold mining town of considerable historic character. There is a wealth in its historic buildings and other structures which remain from its early development in the 1850's and the subsequent boom of the decades to follow. The twentieth century saw a shift in Rushworth's importance as a mining town, to a servicing centre for the surrounding rural community. Essentially a town of the past, Rushworth has been largely ... more	B4764	File only
Former Lake Charm Post Office Kangaroo Lake Inn Murray Valley Highway,, LAKE CHARM VIC 3581 - Property No B6591		B6591	File only
Post Office YACKANDANDAH VIC 3749 - Property No B6061	Erected in 1862 to the design of J J Clark, this is an early example of the first group of post offices to be built in Victoria, employing a low-key but nevertheless distinctive architectural vocabulary developed within the Public Works Department, when W W Wardell was Chief Architect. Classified: 04/05/1989	B6061	Local
Express Office & Associated Buildings 8 Gisborne Road,, BACCHUS MARSH VIC 3340 - Property No B3982	The Bacchus Marsh Express was founded by George Lane, a book binder and the first issue was published on 7th July 1866. The second edition was published by the Bacchus Marsh Express Printing Co., which consisted of Dr. Rae (editor), Rev James Scott, John Saunders, James E Crook, James Young, William Watson and George Lane (printer). This syndicate failed after 3 months and the ownership was then taken up by Lane and Christopher Crisp, an Englishman who had been employed as a ... more	B3982	State
Former Shire Office - Group Classifiaction - Mortlake Historic Area Shaw Street,, MORTLAKE VIC 3272 - Property No B4286	Group Statement of Significance: A distinguished group of three small civic buildings, now abandoned, consisting of Court House, Shire Offices and Post Office, built between 1864 and 1880. Construction is of basalt ashlar with the dominant, centrally placed, Court House in the formal plumb bond and the flanking buildings in random work. Roofs are gabled and slated with plain timber barges and trim. Verandahs are of corrugated sheeting with timber posts and framing except for the ... more	B4286	Local
Offices - Warrnambool Historic Area 97-101 Kepler Street,, WARRNAMBOOL VIC 3280 - Property No B4524	A group of three single storey offices which link up well and are in scale with the adjacent Royal Chambers. Completed in 1894 for the Temperance Society the rendered masonry walls have elaborate mouldings in the round arched and semi-eliptical openings to the doors and windows. No. 97 is the Temperance Hall; the facade of No.101 has had various unsympathetic alterations. Classified: 19/07/1979 Part of Warrnambool Historic Area. Classified: 12/11/1979. See B4538	B4524	Local

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