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CASTLEMAINE PUBLIC CEMETERY (CAMPBELL'S CREEK)
CEMETERY ROAD CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1776The first Castlemaine cemetery occupied a small area in the fledgling township that was soon straddled by Templeton Street. After a great deal of controversy a site for a new cemetery was…
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152 HARRICK ROAD KEILOR PARK, BRIMBANK CITY
VHR H1971The prefabricated cottage is a prefabricated building imported to Victoria in the early gold rush period, most probably from England. There is circumstantial evidence that the cottage…
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25-27 FORD STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0346Christ Church, Beechworth, including the main church building (the nave completed in 1859, and the tower and chancel completed in 1864, and including the pipe organ) and the c.1855 building…
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WILLIAMSTOWN RAILWAY STATION COMPLEX
17 HANMER STREET WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H1599The Melbourne Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company was formed in 1853 to provide a rail link to port facilities at Williamstown as well as the line north to Echuca, within seven…
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COMMONWEALTH RESERVE, NELSON PLACE WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H1513Tide Gauge House was constructed at Gellibrands Point in 1857 to house one of three tide gauges that arrived from England in 1855. The other two gauges went to Portland and Point Lonsdale.…
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24 THE STRAND WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
VHR H0232This notional statement was produced as part of an Online Data Upgrade Project 2009. Mandalay was built in 1858-9 by the builder Charles Pinckney to the design of the Williamstown surveyor…
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HILL PIPE ORGAN - ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCH
25 SCALLAN STREET STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H2177This William Hill organ was made in London in 1858 by the prominent organbuilding firm of W Hill & Son for the residence of a Mr Davis in Melbourne. Between 1886 and 1892 it was…
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OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH, 646 BURWOOD HIGHWAY KNOXFIELD, KNOX CITY
VHR H1280The pipe organ in Our Saviour Lutheran Church, Knox, was originally built in England at an unknown date. The casework is probably of early nineteenth century origin but its pipeworks are…
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20-22 BARKLY STREET BALLARAT EAST, BALLARAT CITY
VHR H1001The Ballarat East Fire Brigade Tower, designed by prominent local architect Henry Caselli, was constructed in 1864 by William Cowland, builder, and brigade volunteer. Lack of funds prevented…
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MOLLISON STREET AND CLOWES STREET KYNETON, MACEDON RANGES SHIRE
VHR H1994The Kyneton Botanic Gardens, originally of 18 acres, was temporarily reserved for a Botanic Gardens in August 1858, replacing the 2.5 acres reserved in March 1858 next to the Mechanics…
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3802 GEELONG ROAD STOCKYARD HILL, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H0563Mawallok (also spelt Mawallock, Mahkwallok and Mawhallock) station of about 28,000 acres (now 5,851 acres) was acquired by Alexander Russell and Co. in 1847 and remained in the Russell…
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OVER MOORABOOL RIVER, MOORABOOL AND BATESFORD, GREATER GEELONG CITY, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
VHR H1105The 396 m long railway line viaduct over the Moorabool River was completed in 1862. It featured nine massive bluestone piers up to 34 metres in height, massive bluestone abutments, and ten…
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30 GIPPS STREET PORT FAIRY, MOYNE SHIRE
VHR H1480Port Fairy court house, built in 1859, is an example of the Victorian Free Classical style with arcuated facade and gable roof. It is significant in its use of local bluestone. It was…
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2 BERWICK STREET CAMBERWELL, BOROONDARA CITY
VHR H1176Broughton Hall (formerly know as Tara) was constructed in c.1858 for Sir John O'Shanassy, one of the colony's early immigrants and three times Premier (1857; 1858-1859 and 1861-1863). The…
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FORMER NEWMARKET SALEYARDS AND ABATTOIRS
EPSOM ROAD AND SMITHFIELD ROAD KENSINGTON, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1430In the late 1850s, the Melbourne City Council decided to move its cattle yards from the corner of Elizabeth and Victoria Streets to a more distant location in the then semi rural district of…
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UNITING CHURCH SECOND WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL
512 SYDNEY ROAD COBURG, MORELAND CITY
VHR H0962The former Methodist Chapel, constructed in 1849 and extended at the north end shortly afterwards, is the earliest known surviving Methodist chapel in Victoria. This substantially intact…
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MUCKLEFORD CEMETERY, MUCKLEFORD-WALMER ROAD MUCKLEFORD, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1403In 1853, a Roads Act established toll-bars on roads throughout Victoria. The Act empowered District Road Boards (from 1854, the Central Roads Board) to collect fees on their boundaries to be…
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275 LATROBE TERRACE GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H1123The Church of Christ was built in 1858 by Fullager, Hagery & Co. to a design by the architectural firm Backhouse & Reynolds. The bluestone building in Early English Gothic style was…
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ALL SAINTS CHURCH, HALL AND FORMER VICARAGE
2 CHAPEL STREET ST KILDA EAST, PORT PHILLIP CITY
VHR H1364STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Work on All Saints' Church which is constructed of bluestone with freestone dressing, commenced in 1858 to the Early English design of Nathaniel…
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OVER MARIBYRNONG RIVER, FOOTSCRAY AND WEST MELBOURNE, MARIBYRNONG CITY, MELBOURNE CITY
VHR H1213The double track railway bridge was proposed by the Melbourne Mt Alexander & Murray River Railway Company, to carry its Melbourne-Williamstown line across what was then the Salt Water…
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EAGLEHAWK COURT HOUSE, MAGISTRATES COURT AND LOCK-UP
1 SAILORS GULLY ROAD EAGLEHAWK, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1401A timber Court of Petty Sessions was built in Eaglehawk in 1858. The log lockup now adjacent to the present courthouse was built to a Canadian plan in the same year in the grounds of the…
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30-32 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H2144Castlemaine's Theatre Royal was built in 1858 to replace the first canvas and timber Theatre Royal which burnt down in 1857. Local residents raised a public loan to enable the lessees Messrs…
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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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39 NICHOLSON STREET ABBOTSFORD, YARRA CITY
VHR H0142The residences at 39-41 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford, were erected between 1858-1869 on land subdivided by local speculator, Charles Nicholson. The houses were constructed of squared rubble…
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41 NICHOLSON STREET ABBOTSFORD, YARRA CITY
VHR H0143The residences at 39-41 Nicholson Street, Abbotsford, were erected between 1858-1869 on land subdivided by local speculator, Charles Nicholson. The houses were constructed of squared rubble…
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