Boarding Houses

East Melbourne, Albert Street 364, 366

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Two houses:  the two-storey one on the left was built in 1909 in the garden of the three storey house on the right which was built in 1873. For over fifty years they were together known as Wellpark, a boarding house or guest house. Later one became a restaurant and the other was converted to offices. They remain on the one title.

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 366

Description: 

The house is built to the footpath, unusual for its time and in the East Melbourne area. It is a single fronted two storey house of red brick with cement mouldings, now painted.  A crenelated parapet hides a gabled roof and a rough cast cement frieze runs below the cornice.

History: 

The house at 366 Albert Street East Melbourne was built in 1909 for the Rev Llewelyn David Bevan (1842-1918). It was built on the land which had once been the garden of the neighbouring house, No 364, which by this time Bevan owned.

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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 154, 156, 158, 160

Description: 
A wide freestanding Victorian Villa of substantial proportions. It incorporates bracketed eaves, with returns under a gently pitched hipped roof over a sober facade composed symmetrically around a generously proportioned entrance doorway. A substantial fence and gracious steps lead to the building.
History: 
This impressive house was designed in 1882 by Alfred Friedrich (Fritz) Kursteiner for Dr Alexander Buttner and completed in 1883. The builder was William Muller. Kursteiner was born in Basle, Switzerland, and worked in Melbourne from c.1853 to 1893 when like many architects who suffered a downturn in work during the depression, he moved to Western Australia, where he died in 1897.
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 164, 166, Ardee

Description: 
A two storey, verandahed and parapeted mansion symmetrically composed around an imposing side lighted doorway.
History: 
This house was designed by Crouch and Wilson and built by John O’Dea for Lawrence Benjamin, a clothier with premises in the ‘Beehive’ building at the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, opposite the General Post Office. He notified the Council of his intention to build on 6 April 1881 but on 4 February 1882 the house was advertised for sale on account of the owner going overseas.
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 164, 166, Hohenzollern

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Old postcard advertising accommodation at Hohenzollern. The property was owned and managed by the Misses Hulda and Amalie Eberhard from 1909 to 1917.
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Journeys in time: The VPK - My Key to Adventure

The author tells of his time as a youth working at Herscehll's Films in Jolimont. He lived at 166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, which his mother ran as a boarding house. Photos. In Photographic Trader, Number 109.
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Sandra Mackenzie

Two copy photographs of Sandra Mackenzie and others in front of Miss MacDonald's Guest House at 70 Clarendon Street.
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Tasma Terrace

Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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Thomas Rand at The Ritz

Photocopies and transcriptions of letters to and from Thomas Rand who lived at The Ritz, 36 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, for the year 1925-26. It seems Mrs. Rand was temporarily managing The Ritz boarding house. Two of the letters mention an offer to take over management if she wishes to give it up. Four short letters, including one draft, to a tenant at Koorine, cnr.
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To Let ads

Photocopy of To Let column of The Argus 15 January 1923. 11 addresses in East Melbourne and Jolimont. Very little information, no prices, some properties are named.
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