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Apartments

East Melbourne, Grey Street 084

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Newspaper clipping reporting on the successful sale of Apartment 8, 84 Grey Street, East Melbourne

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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1081

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Two storey block of 'bachelor' flats in the streamlined Moderne style. The building features curved walls, curved concrete window hoods, black contrasting bricks and portholes.

History: 

Index to Building Applications gives date of application as 7 Sept 1939, however the first page of the application shows it was initially signed on 10 Jan 1939, when the owner was the Commissioner of Victorian Railways and the builder was G. Phillips, 3 Glen Avon Road, Hawthorn. These names were crossed out and the application newly signed on 5 April 1940 when J.K.

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East Melbourne, Hoddle Street 1085, Millhayes

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Two storey cream brick apartment block in the Art Deco style

History: 

The building application for this site is dated 26 August 1939. The owner of the site was the Victorian Railways, which had owned it since purchasing a number of blocks along Wellington Parade in 1901 in order to create the existing railway line.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 021

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Newspaper cutting advertising apartment 6/21 Hotham Street, East Melbourne for sale. Brief description

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 024

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Brochure advertising successful sale of 4/24 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. 

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029

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Art Deco block of flats of three storeys.  A curved section, with three lines of windows running vertically through it, adoins a rectangular section, with windows each of six horizontal panes.

The building was designed by I. G. Anderson in 1941 [see Building History link below].

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 029

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This is an interesting design solution for flats on a narrow site. The street facade is dominated by a half circle stairwell articulated by steel framed vertical windows (with etched glass in horizontal pattern), and two horizontal render bands. Doors to each flat have etched glass panels. [1-Heritage database]

History: 

I.G.Anderson built this block of flats for Hugh, Patrick and Frank Ryan, brothers and pastoralists with extensive holdings all over Australia. The brothers teamed up with Anderson again at 29 and 37 George Street, and at two of the blocks which make up the Garden Avenue complex.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 100

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Newspaper clipping advertising auction of Apartment 6, 100 Hotham Street, East Melbourne

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 100, Castle Coombe

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Brochure advertising auction of Apartment 6, 100 Hotham Street, East Melbourne scheduled for 21 February 1998. Colour photo. Floorplan. The apartment was passed in but sold soon after for $215,000.

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East Melbourne, Hotham Street 100, Castle Coombe

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The building is designed in a mock medieval manner with splayed side walls, half-timbering, tuck-pointed brick quoins and pointed label moulds.

History: 

Castle Coombe was designed and built by Bernard Evans, master builder, VMBA for the Direct Investment & Mortgage Co Pty Ltd which was registered in 1930 by directors Stanley Clifford Steele and his wife, Ellen Anness Steele.

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