PRAHRAN MECHANICS INSTITUTE

140 HIGH STREET PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The Prahran Mechanics Institute was established in 1854 when Prahran was a small hamlet surrounded by swampland. Mechanics Institutes were popular in their various communities as places where…

BERKELEY HALL

11 PRINCES STREET ST KILDA, PORT PHILLIP CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The residence also known as Berkeley Hall was designed by the architect Albert Purchas and built in stages from 1854 for the prominent solicitor Henry Field Gurner. Gurner (1819-83) was born…

NAVAL DRILL HALL AND FORMER POST OFFICE

40 BAY STREET PORT MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY

Victorian Heritage Register

The Port Melbourne Naval Drill Hall was built in 1912 to the design of Commonwealth Department of Works architect JS Murdoch, and is one of the first major buildings constructed for the newly…