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2328 BEECHWORTH-WANGARATTA ROAD TARRAWINGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0568"Carinya", a two-storey brick residence and general store with an adjoining public hall, was built between 1862-67 for Thomas Taylor Ladson. The builders were Thos. Sheils and Jack Oliver.…
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102 BAILEY STREET CLUNES, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H0601The Clunes Post and Telegraph Office was built in 1879 to a design by the Public Works Department. The principal building was constructed by Messrs Lewis and Roberts at a cost of £4099…
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FORMER ARARAT SUB-TREASURY AND POST OFFICE
91 BARKLY STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY
VHR H0618The former Ararat Sub-Treasury and Post Office buildings are outstanding elements in the precinct of government buildings which now occupy the old police camp reserve. The former Sub-Treasury…
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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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28A CAMP STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0867The Beechworth Post Office was constructed in 1870, to a design by Peter Kerr, incorporating a tower dating from 1865 and other materials from an earlier post office building on the site. It…
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338-352 BOURKE STREET AND 188-218 ELIZABETH STREET AND 323-337 LITTLE BOURKE STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0903The first General Post Office was built on the corner of Elizabeth and Bourke Streets in 1852, and was replaced by the current much grander building begun in 1859. A competition was held in…
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145 MAIN ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1014The Chewton Post Office is an essentially intact and fine example of a small post office, with arcade and round arches, designed by the Public Works Department in the period 1870-1885. It was…
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2-6 LYDIARD STREET NORTH BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H1018The Ballarat Post Office is the third such building erected on the site since 1858. The earliest section, designed in Italianate palazzo style by the Public Works Department during William…
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2 POWLETT STREET KILMORE, MITCHELL SHIRE
VHR H1190The Former Kilmore Post Office is a two-storey, coursed basalt rubble building which was designed in the Victorian Public Works Department under the supervision of William Wardell, probably…
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SANDHURST TRUSTEES, FORMER POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE
18-22 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1342The Sandhurst Trustees building was constructed as the first permanent post and telegraph office for the developing town of Sandhurst (now Bendigo) in 1867 to designs prepared by the Public…
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202 BARKER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1347The Castlemaine Post Office was built in 1874-5 replacing an earlier post office constructed in 1857, both designed by the Public Works Department. The present post office was designed by…
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NAVAL DRILL HALL AND FORMER POST OFFICE
40 BAY STREET PORT MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H1378The 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…
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1 CHURCH STREET CAMPERDOWN, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H1384The Camperdown Post Office was constructed in 1863 as the Post Office and Telegraph Station, after the coming of the telegraph line to Camperdown in late 1862. The original single storey…
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83A RYRIE STREET GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H1527The former Telegraph Station in Geelong was built in 1857-8 by builders Patterson and Bell, after the telegraph line between Melbourne and Geelong was constructed in 1854-5. It was the centre…
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ALEXANDRA COURT HOUSE AND FORMER SHIRE OFFICES
38A DOWNEY STREET ALEXANDRA, MURRINDINDI SHIRE
VHR H1654The public offices at Alexandra are architecturally significant as an uncommon example of public works architecture, which incorporates a post office, shire offices and courthouse into a…
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164-420 CAPE SCHANCK ROAD CAPE SCHANCK, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H1748The Cape Schanck Lightstation was constructed in 1857-59 as part of the second campaign of highway or ocean (as opposed to harbour) lighthouse building in Victoria which also produced lights…
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69 CLARENDON STREET MARYBOROUGH, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
VHR H1754Maryborough Post Office was built in 1876-77 as a combined court house and post office. The building was designed by architect JH Marsden of the Victorian Public Works Department and built…
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FLINDERS TELEGRAPH CABLE COMPLEX AND PIER
THE ESPLANADE FLINDERS, MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE
VHR H2413Flinders Telegraph Cable Complex and Pier was established in the 1860s and provided an essential telegraphic link between mainland Australia and Tasmania for seven decades. Evidence of the…
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