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109 Albert Street, East Melbourne - Burnell

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Colour photo shows house of unusual Moorish design.  It was built for John Speechley Gotch, newsagent and partner in Gordon and Gotch.  It was demolished in the 1960s to make way for expansion of the Freemasons Hospital.

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140 Jolimont Road for sale

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Newspaper clipping reporting on the sale of the house at 140 Jolimont Road.  The house was built by Thomas Jackson of Young and Jackson's. Article also gives a brief outline of the history of Jolimont.

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A Christmas Story

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Journalist, Stewart Cockburn, writes of doing up his house in East Melbourne in 1950.  The address of the house is not given but has been identified as 121 Gipps Street. Cockburn shortly afterwards became Robert Menzies' press-secretary. A photo of the front of the house shows that the ground floor verandah then had a wooden frieze, which has since been replaced.

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A new look for JJ Clark's house

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Newspaper clipping describing the renovations undertaken at 104 Gipps Street, the former home of JJ Clark, architect of the Old Treasuryds building in Spring Street. The text is similar to that in another article but the photos are different (see link below).

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Easat Melbourne, Gipps Street 084, The Haven

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Brochure advertising the auction of 84 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 11 May 2002

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 037, Wilton

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Brochure advertising sale by private treaty of 37 Albert Street, East Melbourne, 1999. 

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East Melbourne, Albert Street 364, 366

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Two houses:  the two-storey one on the left was built in 1909 in the garden of the three storey house on the right which was built in 1873. For over fifty years they were together known as Wellpark, a boarding house or guest house. Later one became a restaurant and the other was converted to offices. They remain on the one title.

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East Melbourne, Berry Street 020

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Large 2 storey terrace of red and brown polychromatic brickwork with elaborate moulded render embellishments to parapet. The 2 storey cast iron verandah has many recent components. However the tessellated tile verandah paving is intact. [i-Heritage database]

History: 

This house was designed and built in 1898 by Joel J Eade for Herman Dehnert.  Joel James Eade was the son of Joel Eade who was also an architect, and a founder of the Collingwood School of Design.  The house appears to be one of the very few documented works by this architect. 

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East Melbourne, Berry Street 026

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A simple 2 storey rendered terrace with moulded render dressings to openings. The side entry and attached porch is unusual. [i-Heritage database]

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This house was built for Mrs Ellen d’Arcy Harvie by Peter Reid and completed in 1890. It was named Koolkuna.  Mrs Harvie was the daughter of Thomas Lang, a Ballarat seedsman.  In 1865 she had married William Harvie, also a Ballarat seedsman. In 1882 William died and Ellen was left as provider for her four children.

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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 206, Valetta

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Brochure advertising sale of 206 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 26 May 1999

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