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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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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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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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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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42-48 HUNTER STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0134Buda is a single storey 1863 Italianate villa with grand 1890s classical baroque front entrance and octagonal additions, complemented by three acres of mature dry climate garden. The garden…
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23 BAMBRA ROAD CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY
VHR H0450Halstead is believed to be the oldest standing residence in Caulfield constructed in 1857 with subsequent additions during the 19th Century. The house was built for and owned by James…
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2-8 KEVERELL ROAD AND 4-10 CRADDOCK AVENUE CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY
VHR H0589Rosecraddock was constructed in two main stages. The first part was rated in 1857 as the home of Mr GW Harris. It consisted at that stage of seven rooms, kitchen (detached), servants' rooms,…
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2 MANOR GROVE CAULFIELD NORTH, GLEN EIRA CITY
VHR H0135Labassa, Caulfield is one of Melbourne's most lavishly decorated nineteenth century mansions. It resulted from the extensive remodelling in 1889-90, of an earlier house, known as Sylliott…
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6495 HENTY HIGHWAY GLENISLA, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H0444Glenisla squatting run was established in 1843 by a Scotsman named Simpson who named the run after a kirkdom near Balmoral. In 1860 Charles Carter and Sons acquired the run. From the 1870s…
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460 MERRAWARP ROAD BARRABOOL, SURF COAST SHIRE
VHR H0773The former Suisse vineyard property, renamed Neuchatel by the present owners, has significance for its early associations with the Breguet family, pioneer Swiss vignerons who settled in the…
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101 HOPKINS HILL ROAD CHATSWORTH, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H0325Chatsworth House, a substantial single storey bluestone mansion with attendant outbuildings, on the Hopkins River near Chatsworth, was erected in1858-59 for pioneer pastoralist John Moffat.…
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145 MAGENTA ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1873Magenta Quartz Mine began as an open cut mine in 1860 on the Magenta gold fields, 1.6km northeast of Chiltern in north eastern Victoria. Following the discovery of gold in Victoria (1851),…
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28 CONNESS STREET CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0277The former Bank of Australasia, Chiltern, was built in c.1877 to a design by Anketell Henderson, of the Melbourne firm of Reed and Barnes. Anketell had commenced practice as an architect in…
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