Shopkeepers
East Melbourne General Store
An article about Lisette Malatesta, owner of East Melbourne's General Store, and how she came to buy it and to continue its place as a community hub, as well as run it as a successful business in the face of competion from the big supermarkets.
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East Melbourne, Grey Street 008, Elsinore
A simple two storey tuckpointed brick dwelling with two storey cast iron verandah and render dressings. The parapet has a central cartouche and bracketed cornice. Whilst the entry door has a vermiculated arch over. [City of Melbourne i-Heritage Database]
This house was built in 1884 for Louis Perel by M Gooding & Son of Buckingham Street, Richmond. The earliest rate book entries for it describe it as having six rooms on land 22 by 100 feet. It was built on part of the land on which had once stood the Methodist New Connexion Church, built in 1868. In 1877 the New Connexion Church united with the Weslyans and the church beca