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190527

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
 

Brick Store & Offices

259 William Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4113

B4113

File only
84811

Post Office - Clunes

Bailey Street, CLUNES VIC 3370 - Property No B1055

Built 1879 by Messrs Lewis and Roberts.Replaced a smaller PO built in 1861. The building of a much larger edifice is indicative of the rapid expansion of the town. The population peaked in the 1870's as a result of deep-lead mining and the coming of the railway in 1874. The building is of signifance as a well-executed example of public Renaissance Revival design; as an indicator of the prosperioty of the Clunes goldfields area and a key element in the historic township ... more

B1055

State
70732

Post Office - Koroit Historic Area

99 Commercial Road,, KOROIT VIC 3282 - Property No B2278

Individual Statement of Significance: An early Post Office with interesting stonework. Classified: 'Local' 20/08/1969 Revised: 05/07/1979 Historic Area Statement of Significance: The significance of Koroit derives from its role as the urban centre of one of the most concentrated Irish Roman Catholic rural districts in Australia, noted for its mixed livestock and cropping argicultural patterns. This is reflected in two separate and distinctive areas in the town - the ... more

B2278

Regional
74938

Commercial Office of Elder Smith & Co Ltd

10 - 14 Malop Street,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B0266

Demolished 1973

B0266

Demolished
189168

Offices

115 - 143 City Road,, SOUTHBANK VIC 3006 - Property No B6141

A large two-storey brick and stucco building in near original external condition, with a 300 foot frontage to City Road, and constructed in 1899 by James Moore as the headquarters of his rapidly expanding manufacturing enterprise. The building dominates the streetscape and is a reminder not only of the time when this part of City Road was used by three large sawmills, but of one of Melbourne's most prolific building constructors in the latter half of the nineteenty ... more

B6141

State
68664

Officer Cadet School - Group Classification

Shepherd's Hut

Point Nepean Road,, PORTSEA VIC 3944 - Property No B2031

A limestone building originally roofed with palings, known to have been built before 1854 and possibly the earliest limestone building on the Peninsula; the lower portion is below ground level. Classified: 'Local' Confirmed: 30/08/1973 See also B2401, Point Nepean Quarantine Station.

B2031

Local
70181

Former Office Forests Commission Nursery

Castlemaine Road,, CRESWICK VIC 3363 - Property No B3942

An Edwardian essay in the picturesque, influenced by the American Shingle and Stick Styles, but in the tradition of John Nash's Blaise Hamlet and Dairy and the cottage ornee and of Marie Antoinette's Hameau at Versailles; of particular local interest in that the use of natural round timber posts and braces simulating branching trees, which occurs at Blaise Hamlet, had previously appeared in H B Lane's designs for the government buildings at Ballarat in 1853. Classified: ... more

B3942

State
82031

Former Post Office - Port Fairy Historic Area

Darriwill Farm shop

25 Sackville Street,, PORT FAIRY VIC 3284 - Property No B0862

A two-storey building in Classical Revival style erected 1879/80 from a standard Works Department design, in which an arcaded front section with pediment and clock forms a balcony to residential rooms of second story: one of only four remaining in 1973. Construction of the Port Fairy Post Office began in May 1880, the contractor being James Kennedy. Architect George Watson of the Public Works Department designed the structure which is in a Conservative Classical Revival ... more

B0862

Local
173905

Former Church of England Diocesan Offices & Assembly Hall

Bank of NSW ,  Elder House

95-97 William Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0467

Built 1876 & owned by St James Trust until 1914. Original Melbourne C of E Diocesan Hall. Classified: 'Regional' 05/06/1958 Demolished December 1985.

B0467

Demolished
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