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ST PETERS EASTERN HILL PRECINCT
453-479 ALBERT STREET AND 13-19 GISBORNE STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0009The first Anglican services in East Melbourne were held in 1842 by theRevd John Yelverton Wilson in a workshop at the eastern end of LittleBourke Street. Charles Laing was appointed…
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JOB WAREHOUSE (OR CROSSLEYS BUILDING)
54-62 BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0435Job Warehouse, also known as Crossley's Building, a row of four two-storey shops built in 1848-49. History Summary This row of shops was built in two stages. A large shop (which is now…
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140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0005The Rev. James Forbes who arrived from Scotland to minister in the colony held his first service on 3 February, 1838. Rev. Forbes' first church was a temporary wooden building at the west…
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419-437 KING STREET AND 2-24 BATMAN STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0011St James Old Cathedral was constructed on a Crown grant site of 5 acres of land bounded by Collins, William and Bourke Streets with the foundation stone being laid on 9 November 1839 by…
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326 LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0013On 15 May 1839 Patrick Geoghegan arrived in Melbourne to take up the position of priest of the newly formed parish of Port Phillip. The land on which St Francis Church stands was granted in…
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FORMER JOHN THOMAS SMITH RESIDENCE
296-308 QUEEN STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0806The former residence at 300 Queen Street was designed in 1848 and built between 1849 and 1852 as a residence for J T Smith. Smith was a publican, theatrical entrepreneur and later Mayor of…
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KING STREET AND WILLIAM STREET AND LA TROBE STREET AND DUDLEY STREET WEST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H2041Flagstaff Hill including the Flagstaff Gardens occupies an elevated position to the north west of Melbourne's CBD. Consisting of 7.7 hectares, it was originally called Burial Hill by the…
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WELLINGTON PARADE AND LANSDOWNE STREET AND CLARENDON STREET AND ALBERT STREET EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1834The Fitzroy Gardens were set aside as a public reserve, then known as Fitzroy Square, in 1848. Partially cleared and fenced during the 1840s and 1850s, it was not until 1859 that the reserve…
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DALLAS BROOKS DRIVE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1076La Trobe's Cottage is a conjectural reconstruction of the house of Superintendent La Trobe as it existed in about 1839-40 on his property, Jolimont, which lay on the south side of Wellington…
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BIRDWOOD AVENUE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1459The Royal Botanic Gardens, commenced in 1846 on the south side of the Yarra River on a site selected by Superintendent Charles La Trobe, are located adjacent to Government House, Melbourne…
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EPSOM ROAD AND SMITHFIELD ROAD FLEMINGTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H2220Flemington Racecourse has operated continuously since 1840, when the first race meeting was held here on the Maribyrnong River flats north of the city, and in 1848 352 acres of Crown Land…
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ROYAL PARADE PARKVILLE AND ROYAL PARADE CARLTON NORTH AND ELIZABETH STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H2198What is significant Royal Parade, the boulevard leading north out of Melbourne, runs between Park Street and Grattan Street in Parkville. A small section of Elizabeth Street from Grattan…
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33-39 LITTLE LONSDALE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H2266The former Oddfellows Hotel is a two storey building constructed in stages between c1848 and 1853. A carpenter, Henry Charles Wills, built a single storey cottage with a carpenter's yard for…
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MELBOURNE AND SOUTHBANK AND ST KILDA, MELBOURNE CITY, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H2359St Kilda Road, the boulevard leading south from the city, being the road reserve commencing at Princes Bridge, Melbourne to a point close to Henry Street, Windsor near the St Kilda Junction,…
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140-154 COLLINS STREET MELBOURNE, Melbourne City
VHR H0005The Rev. James Forbes who arrived from Scotland to minister in the colony held his first service on 3 February, 1838. Rev. Forbes' first church was a temporary wooden building at the west…
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