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28 LOCH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0345The first section of the Burke Museum was constructed in Loch Street, Beechworth in 1857 by the Young Men's Association, which had been formed the previous year with the aim of promoting…
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EMERALD HILL MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND HALL OF COMMERCE
170-172 CECIL STREET SOUTH MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H0537The building at 170-172 Cecil Street, south Melbourne was built in 1857 as the Emerald Hill Mechanics Institute and designed by architects Knight & Kerr, the designers of Victoria?s…
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FORMER LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE
54 LONGFIELD STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0531The building at 54 Longfield Street, Stawell West, in fact has never been a Mechanics' Institute. It was known as the Lliterary and Scientific Iinstitute and stood on its own institute…
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113-121 STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0987STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The Ballaarat Mechanics Institute in Ballarat was built in two main stages, in 1860-61 and in 1869-70. The Institute had first met unofficially in 1854, with space…
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43 GRAY STREET HAMILTON, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2171The Hamilton Mechanics Institute was founded in 1859 and the present building was constructed in stages between 1869 and 1903. The Institute was granted a block of land in Gray Street in…
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EAGLEHAWK TOWN HALL, MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND TWO HMVS NELSON CANNONS
2A PEG LEG ROAD AND 1 SAILORS GULLY ROAD EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0713The Eaglehawk Town Hall is a public building with a history dating back to 1865 when a single storey building was completed on this site. The architect for this building was HE Tolhurst who…
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THE ATHENAEUM AND MEMORIAL HALL
62 MICHIE STREET ELMORE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1744The Elmore Athenaeum and Memorial Hall complex comprises the original 1869 building, the 1885 Athenaeum, the 1912 Supper Room and the 1924 Memorial Hall. The 1869 building was originally…
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MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY
81 MOLLISON STREET KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
VHR H1904In February 1855 a committee was formed to set up a mechanics institute in Kyneton. The government had reserved a 1½ acre site for a mechanics institute and experimental gardens. The first…
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140 HIGH STREET PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY
VHR H0400The 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…
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MECHANICS INSTITUTE AND COLLECTION
9-11 AVON STREET BRIAGOLONG, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H0550In March 1874 the first building of the Briagolong Mechanics Institute was officially opened; a red gum weatherboard building with a shingle roof. Although there is no known architect, the…
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Nareen Road NAREEN, Southern Grampians Shire
The Nareen Hall Complex is located at the centre of the hamlet of Nareen, on the eastern side of the Nareen Road. The complex consists of the original stone hall, a weatherboard public hall,…
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Martin Street, PENSHURST VIC 3289 - Property No 002?
The Penshurst Memorial Hall located in Martin Street in the centre of the township began as the local Mechanic's Institute in 1871. No architect or builder has yet been positively linked…
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47 Gray St HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire
SIGNIFICANCE: The Mechanics Institute in any town formed the social focus for middle classes. The building uses a formal, dignified style of architecture to create a sense of respectability,…
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16 BURKE STREET, SANDFORD, GLENELG SHIRE
The Foresters Hall, located at 16 Burke Road in Sandford was originally built as a Rechabite Hall in 1874. The hall sites adjacent to a Mechanics Institute, built in the late 1880s. Both…
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270 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056 - Property No 19369
Brunswick Mechanics' Institute is of local historical and architectural significance. It is one of the earliest surviving, and reasonably intact, Mechanics' Institutes built in Victoria in…
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Former Library and Mechanics' Institute
408 Warrenheip Street, BUNINYONG VIC 3357 - Property No 2034043
How is it significant? Why is it significant? The Old Buninyong Library dates from circa 1859 when it was given as a gift to the citizens of the town by Robert Allen, a prominent local…
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Nareen Road NAREEN, Southern Grampians Shire
The Nareen Hall Complex is located at the centre of the hamlet of Nareen, on the eastern side of the Nareen Road. The complex consists of the original stone hall, a weatherboard public hall,…
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64 High Street Northern Highway, WALLAN VIC 3622 - Property No 112119
The Mechanics' Institute Hall,Library and War Memorial, Wallan are aesthetically, historically, socially and scientifically significant at at LOCAL level.
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Tallarook Street, SEYMOUR VIC 3660
br> The history and description that precedes this Statement of Cultural Significance is the source of the evidence for the statement below. The Seymour Old Town Precinct is an area that…
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LEARMONTH MECHANICS' INSTITUTE HALL & FREE LIBRARY
323 HIGH STREET, LEARMONTH - PROPERTY NUMBER 2038086, BALLARAT CITY
How is it significant? Why is it significant?
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113-121 STURT STREET, BALLARAT CENTRAL - PROPERTY NUMBERS 2043526, 2030736, 2030735, 2030737, 2030740, 2030741, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H0987How is it significant? Why is it significant? Part of Recommended Area A1.1 No SoS provided in this citation. Please refer to descriptions, history, construction, loc govt, listings and…
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