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  • MULBERRY HILL

    385 GOLF LINKS ROAD LANGWARRIN SOUTH, FRANKSTON CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0745
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    Mulberry Hill is remembered as the home of Sir Daryl (1889-1976) and Joan Lindsay (d.1984) and as a place frequented by other members of the famous Lindsay family and some of Australia's…

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  • WATTLE PARK

    1012 RIVERSDALE ROAD BURWOOD, WHITEHORSE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0904
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    Wattle Park is the only example in Australia of a comprehensively developed pleasure park established, owned and operated by a transport authority with the dual aim of promoting its transport…

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  • CASTLEMAINE ART GALLERY AND HISTORIC MUSEUM

    14 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0572
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    The Castlemaine Art Gallery was constructed in 1930 to a design by the architects Stephenson & Meldrum. The builder was a F. Pollerd and the contract cost ₤3250. It was extended at the…

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  • FORMER UNITED KINGDOM HOTEL

    199 QUEENS PARADE CLIFTON HILL, YARRA CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0684
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    The Former United Kingdom Hotel was built in 1937-38, replacing a hotel of the same name that occupied the site. This remarkable two storey brick building has cantilevered concrete balconies…

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  • FORMER BARKLY THEATRE

    277-287 BARKLY STREET FOOTSCRAY, MARIBYRNONG CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0878
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    The Barkly Theatre, constructed in 1914 for the Barkly Picture Theatre Company Limited, is among the earliest purpose-built cinemas in Australia. It is the oldest surviving cinema exterior in…

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  • FORMERLY THE AUDITORIUM

    167-173 COLLINS STREET AND 172-180 FLINDERS LANE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0416
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    The former Auditorium Building was designed in 1913 by renowned Melbourne architect Nahum Barnet for the theatrical firm J and N Tait. It is an eight storey building with a face brick and…

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  • REGENT THEATRE

    191-197 COLLINS STREET AND 186-200 FLINDERS LANE MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0690
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    ' The Regent Theatre was designed by Cedric Ballantyne and built by James Porter & Sons, and opened in 1929. Ballantyne combined Spanish Gothic and French Renaissance styles to produce…

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  • FORMER STATE THEATRE

    150-162 FLINDERS STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0438
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    The Forum and Rapallo Cinemas, formerly the State Theatre, were designed by the American cinema architect John Eberson in association with the prominent Melbourne architects Bohringer,…

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  • MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

    717 FLINDERS STREET DOCKLANDS, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1496
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    During 1916 the architect Walter Richmond Butler designed a new Anglican Mission to Seamen to replace premises in Siddeley Street, which had been resumed by the Harbour Trust during wharf…

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  • CAPITOL HOUSE

    109-117 SWANSTON STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0471
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    Capitol House, Swanston Street was built in 1921-24 to house a theatre and shops and a ten level office tower. It was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony, in…

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  • MOUNT BUFFALO CHALET

    MOUNT BUFFALO ROAD MOUNT BUFFALO, ALPINE SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0901
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    The Chalet was built at Mount Buffalo after the first road to the summit was opened in 1908. The first Europeans recorded the Buffalo plateau in1824 and the tourist potential gained impetus…

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  • GRAINGER MUSEUM

    THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, 156-292 GRATTAN STREET PARKVILLE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0875
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    The Grainger Museum was built 1935 and extended in 1938 to the designs of architect John S Gawler of Gawler and Drummond. Hansen and Yuncken were the builders of both sections. The…

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  • LUNA PARK

    18 CAVELL STREET ST KILDA, PORT PHILLIP CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0938
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    Luna Park, built in 1912, is unique as an extant operating example of a fun park constructed in the early era of this form of entertainment in Australia and being in continual use to the…

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  • PALAIS THEATRE

    14 LOWER ESPLANADE ST KILDA, PORT PHILLIP CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0947
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    The Palais Theatre, St Kilda was constructed in 1927 as the Palais Pictures, to a design by prominent Sydney-based theatre and cinema architect, Henry E. White. It was built on leased Crown…

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  • DRESSING PAVILION

    26 ESPLANADE WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0927
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    The Williamstown Dressing Pavilion, constructed in 1936, is architecturally significant at the state level as an extraordinarily strong dynamic and early example of European Modernism applied…

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  • SUN THEATRE

    6-12 BALLARAT STREET YARRAVILLE, MARIBYRNONG CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0679
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    The Sun Theatre, Yarraville, which opened in 1938 was the fourth cinema built for the promoter EC Yeomans. The building was designed by architects Cowper, Murphy & Appleford. The…

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  • TITANIC MEMORIAL BANDSTAND

    STURT STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0971
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    The SS Titanic Memorial Bandstand is an excellent and unusual example of creative bandstand design of the Edwardian period. a picturesque composition with dominant roofs of oriental…

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  • MELBOURNE CRICKET GROUND

    BRUNTON AVENUE EAST MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1928
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    The Melbourne Cricket Ground was established in 1853 when 10 acres of land at Yarra Park in Jolimont was set aside for the use of the Melbourne Cricket Club, the purpose of the reserve being…

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  • GLENFERRIE OVAL GRANDSTAND

    34 LINDA CRESCENT HAWTHORN, BOROONDARA CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0890
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    Completed in 1938, the Glenferrie Oval Grandstand was built more than a decade after the Hawthorn Football Club was admitted to the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football…

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  • CAULFIELD RACECOURSE

    NORMANBY ROAD AND STATION STREET CAULFIELD EAST, GLEN EIRA CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H2415
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    The Caulfield Racecourse, a premier racecourse in metropolitan Melbourne, which has been the site of horse racing since the late 1850s and was more formally developed from 1876 by the…

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  • THE ASTOR THEATRE

    1-9 CHAPEL STREET ST KILDA, PORT PHILLIP CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1751
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    The Astor Theatre, designed by architect Ron Morton Taylor, was built by the contractors Clements Langford in 1935-36. It was officially opened on 3 April 1936 at a ceremony attended by the…

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  • COMEDY THEATRE

    228-240 EXHIBITION STREET MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H2273
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    The Comedy Theatre, constructed in 1928, was designed as an 'intimate' theatre for the JC Williamson Ltd. firm of theatre operators. Theatre manager and actor, James Cassius (J.C.)…

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  • EASTERN BEACH BATHING COMPLEX AND RESERVE

    1 RITCHIE BOULEVARD AND 31 EASTERN BEACH ROAD GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0929
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    Constructed between 1928 and 1939, the Eastern Beach Bathing Complex is the last major enclosed sea bathing facility to be constructed on Port Phillip Bay, and represents the culmination of…

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  • GRANDSTAND

    BENALLA SHOWGROUNDS, BRIDGE STREET WEST BENALLA, BENALLA RURAL CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0976
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    The Grandstand at Benalla Showgrounds, which was constructed in 1913, is a timber-framed grandstand with distinguishing curved roof to the seating section, and half-curved roof over the…

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  • RETURNED SOLDIERS MEMORIAL HALL

    39 PALL MALL BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1339
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    The Returned Soldiers' Memorial Hall was opened on 15 November 1921 by the Earl of Stradbroke as a permanent memorial to all those from Bendigo who served in World War One and particularly…

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