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21 ISABELLA GROVE HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0196Oxford, formerly known as Friesia, was constructed in 1888 to the design of J A B Koch for Melbourne's first German consul William A Brahe. The house was built in German Renaissance style…
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41 KINKORA ROAD HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0788Shenton was built in 1890 for the coal, chaff and grain merchant John Shenton Gordon. The house was purchased in 1897 by George Swinburne, the prominent engineer, commercial entrepreneur,…
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405 TOORONGA ROAD HAWTHORN EAST, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0489Kawarau, an Italianate mansion originally known as Warrington, with nineteenth-century bi-chrome outbuilding. The residence was built for Robert Robinson, a Melbourne grain merchant, and…
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HEALESVILLE RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
38 HEALESVILLE-KINGLAKE ROAD HEALESVILLE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
VHR H1567The Healesville Railway station complex was constructed for the Victorian Railways in 1902 by F E Shillabeer, on the Lilydale Healesville Line. The complex consists of a large timber gable…
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MARKET GARDENERS TRAM PLATEWAY
CENTRE DANDENONG ROAD HEATHERTON, KINGSTON CITY
VHR H0928The former Centre Dandenong Road plateway, installed in 1908-9 and used until the mid 1930s, was probably the last of a number of plateways which were laid along the semi rural roads on the…
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77 EVELYN CRESCENT HOPETOUN, YARRIAMBIACK SHIRE
VHR H0800In 1878, EH Lascelles, Geelong based woolbroker and pastoralist acquired the Lake Corrong Station from Peter McGinnis. In the late 1880s Lascelles began to plan the subdivision of Lake…
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RAILWAY CRESCENT IRYMPLE, MILDURA RURAL CITY
VHR H1568This is an important example of a portable station building for it is one of only two in tact examples of its type. It also features double roofed and ventilated construction with sunhoods…
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40 BEAUVIEW PARADE IVANHOE EAST, BANYULE CITY
VHR H0199Ravenswood at Ivanhoe East was begun in 1891 for financier Robert William Kennedy on four acres of land rising from the north side of Lower Heidelberg Road. The house and its impressive…
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FORMER GRAND RANK CABMAN'S SHELTER
YARRA PARK EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H0849The shelter is known as the former Grand Rank Cabman's Shelter because of its original location outside the Grand Hotel, now called the Windsor Hotel. It was constructed in 1898 by the…
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135 BARKERS ROAD KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0893The first section of Xavier College commenced in 1872 with the South Wing designed by Kelly, Dennehy and Tappin with a grand Victorian facade. The West Wing was built in 1889 in a Classical…
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SPRINGTHORPE MEMORIAL, BOROONDARA GENERAL CEMETERY
430-440 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0522The Springthorpe Memorial within the Boroondara Cemetery (VHR0049)commemorates Annie Springthorpe, and was erected in 1897 by her husband Dr John Springthorpe. It was designed by Harold…
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292 COTHAM ROAD KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0202Ross House, formerly called Charleville, was built as a two-storey mansion in 1889 for Charles Donaldson. It was designed in the Italianate style by the architect H Shallers and built by G…
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POLICE STATION AND FORMER COURT HOUSE
188 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0944The former Kew Police Station and former Court House was built as part of a complex constructed to also accommodate a post office. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…
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186 HIGH STREET KEW, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H0885The former Kew Post Office was built at the apex of a complex constructed to also accommodate a police station and court house. The building was designed in the Queen Anne style by the…
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COOKE STREET NICHOLS POINT, MILDURA RURAL CITY
VHR H0547The various pumping stations were constructed by the Chaffey brothers as part of their vast irrigation scheme built after 1887. The brothers had come from North America, with the support of…
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KORUMBURRA RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
STATION STREET KORUMBURRA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
VHR H1571The Korumburra Railway Station complex was constructed by G Vincent in 1907, on the Melbourne-Port Albert Line, for the Victorian Railways. The complex comprises of a large, predominantly…
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1462 BYRNESIDE-KYABRAM ROAD LANCASTER, CAMPASPE SHIRE
VHR H0581Karlsruhe was built in 1893 for Baron Karl AF von Swaine and is a large timber single-storey Queen Anne house. The architect and/or builder are not known. Von Swaine was one of the first…
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108 WINDERMERE ROAD LARA, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H1723Pirra Homestead, 110 Windermere Road, Lara, is significant for its highly unusual historical buildings constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries and for its remnant 19th century…
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5 MOONLIGHT HEAD ROAD WATTLE HILL, CORANGAMITE SHIRE
VHR H0609Built in 1903 for Mr Harty to a design by architect Joe Bickley of Panmure using funds generated by a gambling win on the Melbourne Cup, the Wattle Hill Hotel was located on the coach route…
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31 HIGH STREET MACARTHUR, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H1473The Former Macarthur Court House was designed by G.B.H. Austin of the Public Works Department in 1891 and constructed by William Wilkinson to house the local Court of Petty Sessions. The…
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MALDON RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
13 HORNSBY STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1573The Maldon Railway Station Complex was constructed in 1888, by Parker & Vickers, on the Melbourne-Castlemaine-Maldon Line, for the Victorian Railways. It comprises a substantial,…
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336 GLENFERRIE ROAD AND 3-5 SOMERS AVENUE AND 7 SOMERS AVENUE MALVERN, STONNINGTON CITY
VHR H1608Stonington is a two-storey Boom-style mansion constructed in 1890 to a design by noted architect Charles D’Ebro for Cobb and Co coachline proprietor John Wagner. It served as the residence…
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21 - 27 TOORONGA ROAD AND 17 TOORONGA ROAD MALVERN EAST, STONNINGTON CITY
VHR H1710The Malvern Primary School No.2586 opened in a wooden building leased from the Church of England in 1884, opposite Caulfield racecourse. Until 1887 it was known as the Racecourse School. In…
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HIGH STREET AND HIGHETT STREET MANSFIELD, MANSFIELD SHIRE
VHR H1538On Friday 25 October, 1878, four policemen, disguised as prospectors set out from Mansfield to catch the Kelly Gang. The four men, three of who were soon to die, were Sergeant Michael…
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5 CURIA STREET MANSFIELD, MANSFIELD SHIRE
VHR H1540The police stables at Mansfield were constructed by J. Hellier and Co. in 1889 to designs by the Public Works Department. Identical in detail to those constructed in Lilydale (1885) and…
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