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 investment. Henry Gyles Turner, eminent in his professional world of banking, and equally so in Melbourne's literary world, lived at 334 Albert Street for a time. "It was here", to quote Winston Burchett, "in November 1875, in association with friends, that he edited and launched Australia's first successful review, the Melbourne Review" He also wrote the two volume A History of the Colony of Victoria 1797-1900 (1904). The houses were demolished to make way for the Building Industry Advisory Centre.
City of Melbourne Rate Books
Burchett Index of Intents to Build (City of Melbourne): 3 February 1854, Reg. No. 209
Burchett, Winston, East Melbourne 1837-1977 people places problems. Craftsman Press, 1978
Casey, Maie, Early Melbourne Architecture. OUP, 1950