Building histories
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 033
According to the Notice of Intent to Build it was 'a house of two rooms and attics, capable of conversion to two houses.'
Section 27, on part of which this house stood, was largely given over to churches: The Free Presbyterians, the Primitive Methodists and the Methodist New Connexion, but on 16 October 1868 the rest
East Melbourne, Albert Street 045
Simple single fronted, single storey cottage with iron lacework verandah
45 Albert Street was built for Richard Buchan in 1870 by builder, Robert Spencer. The previous year Richard had married Catherine Martin. Both husband and wife came from Perth, Scotland.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 070, Strathroy
The building possesses an asymmetrical plan with a bayed front room and a verandah fronting the balance of the façade. Most of its decorative impact is confined to the parapet entablature.
John Woods, named most appropriately for his occupation as timber merchant, built 70 Albert Street in 1884.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 088
Brick house with stables and wash house
The Notice of Intention to Build describes the proposed building as a cottage however according to the Rate books the house started as seven rooms, grew to eight c.1880, then again to eleven c.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 092, Coniston
A single storey brick house
The house was first built as a five roomed brick cottage but gained two more rooms c. 1885.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 102, Ruaru
A brick and wooden house.
The Notice of Intent to build describes the proposed building as a wooden cottage. It first appears in the Rate Books as a five roomed brick and wooden house.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 108
A six roomed brick house.
Possibly the house referred to in the Notice of Intention to Build as "an additional cottage" The house was built by Thomas Murray, who as a partner in the firm Murray & Hill built many of Mel
East Melbourne, Albert Street 109, Burnell
Two storey house with a tower, verandah and balcony with central portico, all decorated with arches of Moorish influence.
The house at 109 Albert Street appears to have been completed c.1877 when it first appears in the Rate Books (Albert Ward) as a brick house of 12 rooms.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 112
Four roomed brick house.
Thomas Murray was a contractor who with Peter Hill formed the firm Murray & Hill, contractors and joiners.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 118
Timber house of five rooms.
Thomas Wright, the owner and builder of the house, was a contractor who built many houses in the East Melbourne area.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 128, 130
A pair of two-storey single fronted houses with cast iron balconies.
Thomas Wright, who built and owned the houses was a contractor who built many houses in the East Melbourne area.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 132, 134
A rather severe pair of dwellings with simple details. The two storey verandah is virtually completely altered. The six pane sashes to the rear would suggest an early date.
These two houses were built by John O’Brien for William Lumsden and Eliza, his wife, in 1866. According to his short obituary in the Argus in 1905:
East Melbourne, Albert Street 19, 23, Hatton Court
Two apartment blocks in the Moderne style
These two blocks of apartments were designed by architect Leslie J W Reed for sisters Hylda and Sophie Grattan. They were the daughters of William Grattan, a grazier who died in 1917.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 246, Sherwood
See sources below
The Argus of 30 March 1940, p. 22 ran a block advertisement describing Sherwood, 246 Albert Street as 'New Modern, Dignified City Home' just completed.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 268, Woollahra
Large free-standing house.
'Joe' Thompson was a bookmaker and in 1873 he was also the owner of a horse named Don Juan (bought for £50 at Kirk's bazaar) who won the Melbourne Cup that year.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 332, 334
A pair of two-storey, single fronted houses built as mirror twins, with front doors side by side under arched porticos. Verandahs on the ground floor, no balconies. Regency influence.
The first owner of this pair of houses, John Alfred Porter, Prothonotary of the Supreme Court, built his own house at 332 Albert Street first and then a matching one two years later as an investmen
East Melbourne, Albert Street 340, 342
Matching pair of two storey houses with verandahs below, no balcony.
340 Albert Street was built as a family home for Abraham Goldberg while its neighbour, 342, was an investment property, probably leased as a lodging house.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 392
One of an unusual terrace of 16 houses which is built around a corner site, with some of the houses in Albert Street and others in Lansdowne Street.
To come.
Personal memory of Kathlyn Gibson:
East Melbourne, Albert Street 412, Mentmore
Modest single storey house but with extravagantly scaled 4 fluted composite columns to verandah across front, swags, etc. Eight rooms on land 33 feet by 160 feet.
The house is listed in the rate books as being next door to the Medical Society and next door but one to the Victorian Artists Society, across Morrison Place.
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