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Boarding Houses

East Melbourne, Albert Street 364, 366

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Catalogue number: 
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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.

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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.

History: 

The house at 366 Albert Street East Melbourne was built in 1909 for the Rev Llewelyn David Bevan (1842-1918).

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

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A wide freestanding Victorian Villa of substantial proportions.
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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.
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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.
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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 t
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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

Catalogue number: 
emvf0354
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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.
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Sandra Mackenzie

Catalogue number: 
emvf0466
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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

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emvf0371
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Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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Thomas Rand at The Ritz

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emvf0357
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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.
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To Let ads

Catalogue number: 
emvf0358
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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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