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67745

Former Faraday Street State School 112

Kathleen Syme Education Centre

249 Faraday Street,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B3461

A multi-coloured brick building with a slate roof completed in 1877 as Primary School No 112. Designed by Reed and Barnes and built by Thomas Cockram & Co. Windows were enlarged in 1908, galleries removed and some unsympathetic brick wings added at the rear in 1927. Now used by the Royal Women's Hospital Teaching Unit. Classified: 21/02/1974 Revised: 03/08/1998

B3461

State
187968

Former Fire Station

702 Sturt Street,, BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350 - Property No B3282

The Fire Station is a bluestone structure built in 1860 for the Ballarat City Fire Brigade to designs by architect HR Caselli. The two storied castellated section comprises an engine house with arched openings and a mess room above. The symmetrically placed, octagonal lookout tower, which projects from the main facade, was originally five storied, the timber-framed belfry and a glazed gallery below being added. The Fire Station is one of the few surviving examples of the ... more

B3282

Local
67764

Former Friesia

Oxford

21 Isabella Grove,, HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B0811

One of the finest works of the architect J A B Koch, notable especially for the arcaded verandah and for the octagonal central vestibule with niches and lantern roof. Classified: 07/12/1972

B0811

State
69581

Former Freemans Foundry Site - Echuca Historic Area

Murray Esplanade,, ECHUCA VIC 3564 - Property No B5942

Part of Echuca Historic Area B2186. Classified: July 1969

B5942

File only
 

Former Factory

46-50 Haig Street, SOUTHBANK VIC 3006 - Property No B6111

Two well-preserved corrugated iron buildings of simple form constructed in 1913, representative of the smaller-scale storage facilities constructed near the river wharves, and now the oldest extant examples in South Melbourne. The substantial two-storey brick offices at the front of one of these buildings is also notable for the elaborate bevelled, raised and moulded entrance doors which are unusual in industrial buildings in South Melbourne. The site was associated with the ... more

B6111

State
70010

Former Free Church Of England Trinity Church

Christ Church

NE Cnr Latrobe Terrace & Little Myers Street,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B3744

A seven bay church in uncoursed bluestone built for the Rev. G Brough's breakaway Free Church of England and begun in 1858 to the design of Backhouse & Reynolds. The building is of interest on account of its transverse nave gables and extremely squat tower with slate broach spire. There is a small pipe organ built by John Courcelle, London. Classified: 13/11/1975 Revised: 26/05/1988

B3744

State
 

Former Factory

105 Little Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6633

This is a three storey brick building built c.1890 and decorated with cream brick window arches and cornice lines. The simple building form with round arch windows is an important element and reinforces the character of Chinatown. The retention of these simple utilitarian buildings is essential to the understanding and character of the area. Classified: 06/06/1994

B6633

Regional
70051

Former Fuse Factory

197 Wattle Street, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B3914

A brick complex of several factory buildings built in three separate but connected sections in 1875, 1889-1895 and 1901. Now a clothing factory but formerly produced safety fuses invented by Charles Ferry J.P. for the local mines. The business was bought over in 1888 by a Cornish firm Bickford Smith who also made fuses. Notable remaining architectural features (possibly by local architect W C Vahland and his son Henry) include ornamental roof ventilators, elaborate cast-iron ... more

B3914

Local
 

Former Fairfield Hospital

Yarra Bend Road,, FAIRFIELD VIC 3078 - Property No B6695

A purpose designed hospital of State significance as the first infectious diseases hospital in Victoria. In 1926 the advanced design of the complex was considered by visiting American hospital expert Dr MacEachern as "the best fever hospital plan with which he had ever come in contact". Fairfield has a distinctive history as the location of Melbourne's infectious diseases hospital, and the spatial and symbolic isolation of its first fifty years are key aspects of the site's social ... more

B6695

State
178579

Former Foresters' Hall

Shepparton & Goulburn Valley Historical Society Museum

Cnr Welsford Street and High Streets,, SHEPPARTON VIC 3630 - Property No B2410

An early, primitive, semi-public brick building, the Foresters' Hall dates from 1872 when it was built by William Fraser as a public hall. It has had many uses; for example, court house, church services, broom factory and as the Foresters' Lodge. The building is now used to house the Shepparton and Goulburn Valley Historical Society Museum. Classified: 27/01/1972

B2410

Local
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