McLean
East Melbourne, Hotham Street 114, 116, 118, 120 - Burchett
1883. MCC BR: Ray Noble to build for self four 2-storey houses.
1885. First Directory reference: Harold Francis. James Anderson. Oliver McLean. Sarah Higginson.
Note: National Trust citation:'Notable Victorian terrace with orginal interiors'. Classified.
Photo shows No.114 left-hand most terrace.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 118 - 1887
Photo of Torloisk, 118 Vale Street, East Melbourne taken by McAlpine Bros. 29 September 1887.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 118 - 1917c
Newspaper photo of Torloisk, 118 Vale Street, East Melbourne probably at the time of it's sale by the McLean family to the Anglican religious order, the Community of the Holy Name. The property became the St Ives Private Hospital. (Ref.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 118 - 1990
Photograph of Torloisk, 118 Vale Street East Melbourne.
The building, previously St Ives Private Hospital, was purchased in 1990 by the Myer family who undertook major renovations including demolition of the hospital extension and restoration of some of the original architectural forms such as the corner window arches.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 118 - 2008
Photo of Torloisk, 118 Vale Street, East Melbourne.
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East Melbourne, Vale Street 118, St. Ives
A large three storey house well designed for its corner site in presenting nicely finished facades to both Vale Street and Wellington Parade South.
The house was built for William McLean. McLean was a partner in McLean Bros. & Rigg, a large and prosperous firm of ironmongers and general merchants with a major store in Elizabeth Street, a warehouse in Collins Place, an iron yard in Bourke Street and offices in London and New York. The company had branches throughout Victoria and Western Australia .
East Melbourne, Vale Street 124 - Burchett
1886. MCC BR: W.W. Seddington, of Russell Street, Collingwood, to build dwellings and out-buildings for W. McLean, Esq. Twentyman and Askew - architects.
1887-8. W. McLean - owner/occupier. 20 rooms. Occupied till 1895c.
Later C. of E. Private Hospital - St. Ives.
1970's. Nurses Home - St. Ives, for Alfred Hospital.
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 514, 516, 518, 520, 522, 524 - Burchett
Originally numbered as No.89 for No.514, etc.with old No.79 now No.524.
1876. MCC BR: James Carlton to build for J. Knipe 6 houses.1877.
1877. J.H. Knipe shown as owner of 6 terraces. Brick, 8 rooms each.
Subsequenr occupants listed: Mrs. R.A. Levison. Michael O'Reilly. Thos. McLean. Rev. Ebenezer Taylor. Henry Heinbockel. Samuel W. Watcham.
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East Melbourne, Wellington Parade 148, 150, 152
Two shops and seven roomed brick villa
150 was one in from the SW corner of Powlett Street. It was a pharmacy from about 1896 to 1924. The first chemist there was Patrick McLean; he was followed about two years later by Edward Maurice Gibbs; then for about ten years from 1903 by Harry J. Massey, chemist and dentist; and finally Walter J. Williams, chemist and optician, purchased the business about 1913.
Marching for Justice
On 15 March this year more than 5,000 people gathered in East Melbourne’s Treasury Gardens, many dressed in black, many carrying banners. They streamed up the steps from Parliament station, alighted from trams which had come from all over the city, and walked with determination from the nearby suburbs.
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