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105-107 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0395The Castlemaine Steam Flour Mill building, a three storey Georgian-style brick and stone structure, was erected in 1856-57 for a local investment company. Thomas Shephard was the architect.…
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149-151 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0131The former Bank of New South Wales, Castlemaine, designed by architect Leonard Terry and constructed in 1866, replaced an earlier bank building which was erected on the site by 1855. The…
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157 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0712The establishment of a branch of the Bank of Victoria in Castlemaine was first proposed in 1854, and this was subsequently opened in a temporary iron building. Late in 1855 tenders were…
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FORMER TELEGRAPH OFFICE AND FAULDER WATSON HALL
208-210 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0671The Castlemaine telegraph office was one of four opened on the Sandhurst line in January 1857, the others being at Sandhurst, Kyneton and Gisborne. It was the first major public building…
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220 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0580The former State Savings Bank was erected in 1919 to a design by Godfrey & S Powers. The building incorporated the original government sub-treasury and police court (built 1862). Parts of…
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5 BOWDEN STREET AND 2 FARNSWORTH STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0737No.5 Bowden Street was built in the 1860s for James Ah Coy, a Chinese interpreter. Ah Coy achieved a certain amount of notoriety in 1869 when, following a petition by members of the Chinese…
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3-5 BURNETT ROAD CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0571The house was built for William Froomes Jnr, a draper, in 1867. The building and/or architect is/are not known. Froomes was born at Hounslow England in 1830 and was apprenticed to a draper in…
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36-48 BOWDEN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0990HM Prison, Castlemaine was constructed of local sandstone between 1857 and 1861. It represents an important phase in the development of prison design associated with the completion of the…
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37, 39A AND 45 FARNSWORTH STREET AND 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0591A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired…
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31 GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0670Broadoaks, 31 Gingell Street, Castlemaine is a single storey house erected in 1854 as the district police inspector's residence, the architect being CD Balmain. The house is asymmetrically…
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CASTLEMAINE RAILWAY PRECINCT (MURRAY VALLEY RLWY, MELBOURNE TO ECHUCA)
KENNEDY STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1664The Castlemaine railway precinct forms part of the Murray Valley Railway (Melbourne to Echuca line). Opened in five stages from February 1859 to September 1864, the Murray Valley Railway was…
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FORMER CASTLEMAINE COURT HOUSE
7 GOLDSMITH CRESCENT CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1682The enormous influx of people to the Victorian central goldfields in the 1850s resulted in the rapid establishment of law enforcement instrumentalities and the erection of many public…
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184 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0721Kaweka was constructed in 1896 as a residence for john s Thompson an iron founder of Thompsons Foundry, the builder being HD McBean. Thompson lived at the house till his death in 1910 after…
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127 JOHNSTONE STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0570Chatsworth Lodge was built in c.1864 by James Redfearn, a monumental mason, who established his business there. Redfearn was born in Derbyshire, England, and migrated to Melbourne in 1856. In…
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23A LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0683The Castlemaine Orderly Room was constructed in Lyttleton Street in 1888-9 after a decision was made to demolish the existing orderly room. In 1863 a site within the Public Purposes Reserve…
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CASTLEMAINE ART GALLERY AND HISTORIC MUSEUM
14 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0572The Castlemaine Art Gallery was constructed in 1930 to a design by the architects Stephenson & Meldrum. The builder was a F. Pollerd and the contract cost ₤3250. It was extended at the…
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11-13 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0448This complex contains three buildings, constructed for the Congregational, or Independent, church in Castlemaine. The earliest building was constructed in 1855 as a temporary church, Sunday…
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29 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1405The first court building on this site was built in 1858. Previously courts had operated from the old Courthouse in the Commissioners Camp. This courthouse was similar to the courthouse at…
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27 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1644The foundation stone of the School of Mines, Castlemaine was laid on 18.12.1889 on the site of the old police court which had previously been used for classes. The architect was WC Vahland of…
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56 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0132The Castlemaine area was sparsely populated until the discovery of gold in the Mount Alexander/Forest Creek area in September 1851. The rapid growth in population demanded some measure of…
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44 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0130The Castlemaine Market originally contained 22 shops for the sale of local fresh foods and products. It was one of three market buildings arranged geometrically around an arcaded water tank…
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57 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0672The Former Bank of Australasia which was built in 1855 at a cost of £2500 was designed by the architect John Gill and built by James Kibble. It is a two storey building constructed of…
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167 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0678The land on which this house stands was acquired by the Vivian family in 1862 and, sometime before 1869, George Vivian had the house built for him. The Vivian brothers established an iron and…
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60 RAY STREET AND 26 GAFFNEY STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0133Ferndale Manor was built in Castlemaine for Henry Issacs in 1859-60 to designs by architect, Edward Spencer. From 1867 to 1876 it was the residence of Alexander William Robertson who,…
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49 TEMPLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0569This building was erected as a shop and residence in c.1859 for Caleb Anderson, a principal of Anderson, Grieg & Co., wine and spirit merchants of Melbourne. A two-storey shop, it is…
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