"179 Gipps Street is classified by the National Trust, with the Citation:- 'A fine two-storeyed house in the Italianate manner with delicate stucco detailing and well proportioned openings' It is included in the Register of Historic Buildings established by the Historic Buildings Act 1974 [now Heritage Victoria] 179 seems to have been built in three stages. The first stage in 1861. The Melbourne City Council has given me copy of 'Notice to Build No. 662' dated 24th November, 1860 which reads:- 'To Mr. Edwards, C.B.S. Sir, I hereby give you notice that I am about to begin to build a house for Mr. Greenwood, situated on the North East Corner of the Bishop's Garden, Gipps Street, East Melbourne consisting of four rooms two storey high with kitchen at back. I am Sir, yours etc. S. Ward.' Greenwood was a partner in Oddy and Greenwood, Fellmongers of Yarra Bank Road. Extensions bringing the house to the present front hall must have been made before 1866, as photographs of that date show it with a lookout on top of front section. This lookout was removed at some date, but timbering in the roof was left intact. I restored it in 1972. The House was sold to the Rev. David Nimmo in 1869, and his daughter who had bought Mrs. Ainslie's Ladies College, 40 Powlett Street [now 101] shifted the school to 179 and called it 'Ladies College, Ormiston House', later becoming Ormiston College in Grey Street. In 1871 Nimmo sold to Robert Ramsay, M.L.A. for East Bourke who appears to have immediately built the present front rooms on, as its rating changes from nine rooms of brick construction in 1869, to twelve rooms plus a gymnasium in 1872. Robert Ramsay became Chief Secretary and Minister for Education. He authorised the train load of police who went to Glenrowan after Ned Kelly. He died in 1882, but his widow Isabelle Catherine Ramsay, in 1896 was able to persuade the Lord bishop of Melbourne to transfer to her a 10ft. by 165ft. strip on the Western boundary from the Deanery Reservation, which gave a side entrance and space for a courtyard garden. 179 became a rooming house in the depression years under the name of "Sujama Flats" but was lovingly restored between 1954 and 1969 by Mr. and Mrs. Mackay from whom we bought.