History: Rupert Stanley Joseph, auctioneer, became the registered owner of the land now known as 458 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, in 1919 (Certificate of Title Vol 4196 Fol 131). In 1932, aged in his mid-50s and by then calling himself an investor, he married Doris Lilian Meinardi (Ancestry). In 1933, using the company name of East Melbourne Investments Syndicate, he commissioned I G Anderson to draw up plans for a 12 unit apartment building on the site. He gave the building the name of Dorijo in honour of his new wife, Doris Joseph. Anderson had completed his plans by the end of the year and advertised for tenders in The Argus on 16 December 1933. Almost exactly a year later an advertisement appeared in The Argus, ’EAST MELBOURNE DORIJO FLATS 143-145 Victoria Parade -New fire, sound proof building, 12 modern S C FLATS. Just completed free H W S, 3 rooms, tiled kitchen, bathroom. …. Only 3 flats available.’ These flats would have been three of the single bedroom flats that made up the two lower floors. The top floor contained two three bedroom flats. The street numbers in Victoria Parade changed c.1937. Joseph died in 1954 leaving the income from his estate to his widow for her life time, with Equity Trustees as his executors. After Mrs Joseph’s death Equity Trustees remained the sole proprietor selling to Peter Thomas Evan Rand in 1985. Rand died in 1997 and the executors of his estate, one his solicitor, Frank Ernest William Levy, became proprietors during a period of protracted dispute over the will. The property was sold in December 2014