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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Oakleigh Motel 1650 Dandenong Road,, OAKLEIGH VIC 3166 - Property No B6997	The Oakleigh Motel, designer unknown, and completed in 1957, is historically, architecturally important at the State level. Historically, this is the first motel to be built in Victoria. Influenced by the American experience, the motel represents the vanguard of a new type of building that came to dominate the travelling and holiday experience in the 1960s, and is still popular today. Motels were one of the new building types that developed in response to the boom in car ... more	B6997	State
Former Mitchell Valley Motel Wander Inn Motel , Bairnsdale Caravilla Motel 620 Main Street,, BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875 - Property No B7310	The former Mitchell Valley Motel was built by the prominent builder, later conservationist, environmentalist and academic, David Yencken. Itwas designed by the distinguished Melbourne architect John Mockridge, and opened in late 1957. It was the second motel to be opened in Victoria, and the first in country Victoria. In contrast to other Australian motels of the late 1950s, it was simple in design and was an inspiration to Robin Boyd in his design of the Black Dolphin Motel, ... more	B7310	Demolished
Suburban Hotel (Former) Captain Cook Hotel-Motel Cnr Napier Road & Gleeson Street, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B2961		B2961	File only

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Oakleigh Motel

1650 Dandenong Road,, OAKLEIGH VIC 3166 - Property No B6997

The Oakleigh Motel, designer unknown, and completed in 1957, is historically, architecturally important at the State level. Historically, this is the first motel to be built in Victoria. Influenced by the American experience, the motel represents the vanguard of a new type of building that came to dominate the travelling and holiday experience in the 1960s, and is still popular today. Motels were one of the new building types that developed in response to the boom in car ... more

B6997

State

Former Mitchell Valley Motel

Wander Inn Motel , Bairnsdale Caravilla Motel

620 Main Street,, BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875 - Property No B7310

The former Mitchell Valley Motel was built by the prominent builder, later conservationist, environmentalist and academic, David Yencken. Itwas designed by the distinguished Melbourne architect John Mockridge, and opened in late 1957. It was the second motel to be opened in Victoria, and the first in country Victoria. In contrast to other Australian motels of the late 1950s, it was simple in design and was an inspiration to Robin Boyd in his design of the Black Dolphin Motel, ... more

B7310

Demolished

Suburban Hotel (Former)

Captain Cook Hotel-Motel

Cnr Napier Road & Gleeson Street, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B2961

B2961

File only