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
East Melbourne, Albert Street 070, Strathroy
East Melbourne, Albert Street 088
East Melbourne, Albert Street 092, Coniston
East Melbourne, Albert Street 102, Ruaru
East Melbourne, Albert Street 108
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. However there had been a lengthy gestation.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 112
East Melbourne, Albert Street 118
East Melbourne, Albert Street 128, 130
East Melbourne, Albert Street 132, 134
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
East Melbourne, Albert Street 268, Woollahra
East Melbourne, Albert Street 332, 334
East Melbourne, Albert Street 340, 342
East Melbourne, Albert Street 366
The house is built to the footpath, unusual for its time and in the East Melbourne area.
The house at 366 Albert Street East Melbourne was built in 1909 for the Rev Llewelyn David Bevan (1842-1918).
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.
East Melbourne, Albert Street 412, Mentmore
East Melbourne, Albert Street 472, 476
A pair of houses of classical design with a covered carriageway between.
This pair of houses, together known as Fairmount, were built in 1874 for James Garton, livery stables proprietor, by Robert Huckson to the design of architect George Browne.
East Melbourne, Berry Street 040, Cotswold
East Melbourne, Burchett Lane 015
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 017, St Hilda's
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 023, Holcombe
Large two storey house of rendered brick
23 Clarendon Street, known as Holcombe, was built for William Henry Hull in 1855 to the design of John Gill. Gill advertised for tenders in December 1854.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 036, Mosspennoch
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 060, Gnaroo
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 068, 070, Vizard House
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 136, 138, 140, 142, 144, 146, Fitzroy Terrace
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 150, Clarendon House
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 162, Belmont
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 180, Stanford House
A photo of c.1934 shows a large symmetrical house. The central section has a steep roof with attic windows, and is flanked by Italianate pavillions, each with a bay window.
The house is believed to be the first built in East Melbourne after the first Crown land sales of 1852 opened the suburb up to the public.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 206, Valetta House
A stucco-faced dwelling in a restrained version of the Regency style, remarkable for Palladian massing with two axes of symmetry and corner pavilions.
The house was erected by R. Jones for John Gray in 1856.The first we know about John Gray is his marriage to Eliza (nee Abrahams) the widow of William Pyke in 1853.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 208, 210, 212, Clarendon Terrace
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 220, Victoria House
The building is a modern derivation of the Tudor style.
Philip Hudson, A.R.V.I.A, Stalbbridge Chambers, 443 Chancery lane, Melbourne also designed the Shrine of Remembrance, St. Kilda Road, called tenders for residential flats cf.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 226, Rathmore
The house is double storey, asymmetrically planned and constructed of red brick. At ground floor level a single wide arch screens the verandah from the street.
The house at 226 Clarendon Street was designed by H W & F B Tompkins in 1911 for Margaret Ethel Leslie (nee Stephenson) and built by W H Bullows.
East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 228, 230, Clarendon Flats
This two-storey building was designed as a block of six self-contained flats. It is constructed of red brick and forms an important part of the red brick group of 226, 224, 222 and 220 Claren
On 9 Aug 1912 The Herald ran a short article stating that,
East Melbourne, Darling Street 002, 004, 006, 008, 010
East Melbourne, Darling Street 012, 014, The Old Police Station
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Initially described in the Rate Books as six rooms, the following year the description changes to five rooms, pantry, bath and shed, and by 1875 it has become seven rooms.
East Melbourne, Darling Street 024
East Melbourne, Darling Street 028, The Workshop
East Melbourne, Darling Street 032
East Melbourne, George Street 032, Bradoc House
A block of eighteen flats. Built of brick with a Tudor-Byzantine exterior, with Spanish influence. Decorative brickwork and painted incised render. Art deco interiors
From construction in the 1930s until late 1989 privately owned rental investment residential flats. Nine one bedroom flats; three two bedroom flats; six bed-sitters.
East Melbourne, George Street 040, 042
East Melbourne, George Street 046
East Melbourne, George Street 048, 050
The houses at 48-50 George Street comprise a pair of semi-detached, nineteenth century, Italianate single-storey residences with basements.
This pair of houses was built in 1861 by and for William Crawford of Melbourne. Nothing further can identify this particular William Crawford with any certainty. The houses, in the Burc
East Melbourne, George Street 054
Two storey double fronted house with simple facade
Abraham Kellet married Ellen Russell in 1857 and was no doubt anxious to provide a home for his new bride and what turned out to be his large brood of children.