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Apartments

East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 400, Victoria & Albert Apartments

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Brochure advertising the sale by private treaty of 58/400 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, 1997

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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 458, Dorijo

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A three storey building of rendered brick containing 12 apartments in the Art Deco style. As it faces Victoria Parade it is a symmetrical building with the main entrance at the ground floor level of the central element, and above French doors opening onto balconies. The balconies diminish in width as they progress up the building giving a sense of increased height.
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History: Rupert Stanley Joseph, auctioneer, became the registered owner of the land now known as 458 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, in 1919 (Certificate of Title Vol 4196 Fol 131). In 1932, aged in his mid-50s and by then calling himself an investor, he married Doris Lilian Meinardi (Ancestry).
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East Melbourne, Wellington Crescent 002

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Newspaper clipping advertising the auction of apartment 18, 2 Wellington Crscent, East Melbourne

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 012

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A colour photo shows a two storey building of clinker brick.  It is rigidly symmetrical and with twelve-paned windows placed evenly across the facade has a classical appearance. A small hint of Art Deco style is created by the motif at the roof line marking the centre point, and also by the stylised lettering on the side wall.

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 012

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A clinker brick, two-storey building of simple classical design with ornamentation limited to an Art Deco decorative feature at the roofline and stylised lettering on the side wall facing an access lane. It appears almost two dimensional in denial of its difficult triangular site.  It could be a stage set. 

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In 1900 two 2-storey brick houses on this site were sold for demolition and removal to make way for the new extension to the Inner Circle railway line which opened in 1902.  The railway line cut diagonally through the land leaving the cramped, triangular site we see today.  This unused land remained vacant until 1939 when the current building was completed.  Although no advertise

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade South 201

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Advertisement for the auction of apartment 31, 201 Wellington Parade South, East Melbourne, scheduled for 23 Sep 2018.

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade South 279

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Newspaper clipping advertising private sale of Apartment 904, 279 Wellington Parade South, East Melbourne

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade South 279

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Real estate article about apartment 1801, 279 Wellington Parade South.  It was advertised for private sale.

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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade South 279

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Newspaper clipping describes an apartment for sale at One East Melbourne, 279 Wellington Parade South. Interior photo. The Age, 15-16 April 2016, Domain p.14.

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Eastbourne Apartments near completion

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Newspaper clipping reporting on near completion of Eastbourne Apartments on the old Dallas Brooks Hall site in Albert Street, East Melbourne.  Bates Smart designed the building for Mirvac. Report gives an extensive description of the complex's attributes.

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