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East Melbourne, Albert Street, 088
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Brick house with stables and wash house
The Notice of Intention to Build describes the proposed building as a cottage however according to the Rate books the house started as seven rooms, grew to eight c.1880, then again to eleven c.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 092, Coniston
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A single storey brick house
The house was first built as a five roomed brick cottage but gained two more rooms c. 1885.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 102
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A brick and wooden house.
The Notice of Intent to build describes the proposed building as a wooden cottage. It first appears in the Rate Books as a five roomed brick and wooden house.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 108
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A six roomed brick house.
Possibly the house referred to in the Notice of Intention to Build as "an additional cottage" The house was built by Thomas Murray, who as a partner in the firm Murray & Hill built many of Mel
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 109, Burnell
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Two storey house with a tower, verandah and balcony with central portico, all decorated with arches of Moorish influence.
John Speechley Gotch was the founder and managing director of Gordon & Gotch, an international news and advertising agency.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 112
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Four roomed brick house.
Thomas Murray was a contractor who with Peter Hill formed the firm Murray & Hill, contractors and joiners.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 118
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Timber house of five rooms.
Thomas Wright, the owner and builder of the house, was a contractor who built many houses in the East Melbourne area.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 128-130
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A pair of two-storey single fronted houses with cast iron balconies.
Thomas Wright, who built and owned the houses was a contractor who built many houses in the East Melbourne area.
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 332-334
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A pair of two-storey, single fronted houses built as mirror twins, with front doors side by side under arched porticos. Verandahs on the ground floor, no balconies. Regency influence.
The first owner of this pair of houses, John Alfred Porter, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, built his own house at 332 Albert Street first and then a matching one two years later as an investmen
East Melbourne, Albert Street, 340-342
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Matching pair of two storey houses with verandahs below, no balcony.
340 Albert Street was built as a family home for Abraham Goldberg while its neighbour, 342, was an investment property, probably leased as a lodging house.
East Melbourne, Berry Street, 040, Cotswold
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Two-storey brick house
"Cotswold was built in 1891 by W. Parks, Contractor, and Philip E. Treeby, Architect, for a sport minded country doctor who wished to have a town house near the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 001-17, St. Hilda's
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Large two-storey house, built of red brick, with red tiled roof; a corner turret; balconies.
St. Hilda's was built in 1907 by R S Phillips for James Griffiths. The architects were Ward and Carleton.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 036, Mosspennoch
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A two-storey, double fronted Italianate mansion of render on brick construction.
Mosspennock was built in 1881 for James Liddell Purves, Q.C. and was designed by Charles Webb. It is unusual for the curved glass in its front bow windows.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 068-70, Vizard House
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A pair of single fronted two storey houses of red brick with cement dressings. The verandahs and balconies are in the form of arcaded galleries and there is a gable above.
Sir Austin Chapman (1864-1926) was an important participant in the push for Federation.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 136-146, Fitzroy Terrace
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A row of six three-storey terrace houses.
Fitzroy Terrace, was a row of six three-storey terrace houses. Three were built in 1855 for Samuel Ramsden. Then in 1864 Ramsden lodged a notice of intention to build a further four houses.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 150, Clarendon House
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A large two-storey house with colonnaded balcony and a balustrade around the roofline.
Sir William a'Beckett, Chief Justice of Victoria, and his wife were the first owners of Clarendon House.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 162, Belmont
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Large three-storey house built to the street.
Belmont was built in 1873 for William Taylor, auctioneer, who lived there for thirty years.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 180, Stanford House
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A photo of c.1934 shows a large symmetrical house. The central section has a steep roof with attic windows, and is flanked by Italianate pavillions, each with a bay window.
The house is believed to be the first built in East Melbourne after the first Crown land sales of 1852 opened the suburb up to the public.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 206, Valetta House
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A stucco-faced dwelling in a restrained version of the Regency style, remarkable for Palladian massing with two axes of symmetry and corner pavilions.
The house was erected by R. Jones for John Gray in 1856. The architect was Osgood Pritchard. The original two storey building comprised twelve rooms.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street, 210-214, Clarendon Terrace
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A terrace of three two storey houses designed to look like one house. The central house has an unusual portico of giant order Corinthian columns.
Clarendon Terrace was built in 1857 by Robert Huckson, to the design of Osgood Pritchard for Charles Lister, wine and spirit merchant and brewer.