Doctors

Compassion and Courage: Australian Doctors and Dentists in the Great War

Catalogue of exhibition of the same name held at University of Melbourne in 2015. Many images reproduced and accompanied by extensive text. The East Melbourne connection is slight. There is a short paragraph on Dr Rachel Champion who married Dr Charles Shaw, an East Melbourne resident. Also a group photo including Clara Stone, sister of Constance who was an East Melbourne resident.
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Dr John Singleton and his work

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Newspaper clipping about the old Free Medical Dispensary in Wellington Street, Collingwood established by Dr John Singleton. Dr Singleton, doctor, social worker and reformer, lived in East Melbourne, and his daughters ran a school in his home for many years. The school was Ormiston which eventually moved out of East Melbourne and merged with Camberwell Anglican Girls Grammar.
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 472, 476

Description: 

A pair of houses of classical design with a covered carriageway between.

History: 

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.  

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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 164, 166, Ardee

Description: 

A two storey, verandahed and parapeted mansion symmetrically composed around an imposing side lighted doorway.

History: 

This house was designed by Crouch and Wilson and built by John O’Dea for Lawrence Benjamin, a clothier with premises in the ‘Beehive’ building at the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets, opposite the General Post Office. He notified the Council of his intention to build on 6 April 1881 but on 4 February 1882 the house was advertised for sale on account of the owner going overseas.

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