Building histories & places

This building is a fine and intact example of 1930's Art Deco flats. Exhibiting extreme care in the detailing including Art Deco treatment of the sash horns on windows ; each flat has a curved balcony with string courses which increase in number up the building. The building is e...

A terrace of three two storey houses with cast iron balconies.

Place

East Melbourne, George Street 125a, 125b

Single storey timber and brick villa, and two storey brick cottage

A terrace of three two storey houses

Place

East Melbourne, George Street 178, Braemar

Large two storey house especially noteworthy for its conservative classicism and its unusual verandah with paired cast iron columns

A photo in 'We of the Never Never with a memoir of Mrs. Gunn by Margaret Berry' shows the house as a large two storey house with a verandah and balcony with cast iron decoration on the west side; and on the east a simple rendered facade with a pair of arched windows above and bel...

Three three storey terrace houses of rendered brick. No. 182 retains a timber verandah and balcony at ground and first floor level. Its design and construction are unique. The verandahs and balconies have been removed from Nos. 184 and 186, however No. 184 is currently undergoing...

Rate books describe it as a brick house of twelve rooms

Single fronted two story house in the Federation style. The ground floor is red brick, the upper floor is rouch cast plaster. The front door is protected by an arched porch and above this is a small balcony with a timber shingle balustrade. The downstairs window is a wide curved...

Large double fronted, single storey house

The 1920s brought many different architectural styles to Melbourne. Tasma fits most closely into the Prairie style with its low-pitched hip roof, wide eaves, strong massing, and restrained use of applied ornamentation. In spite of its two-storey height the building retains a sens...

Very narrow single fronted two storey house.

Two storeyed, single fronted house with cast iron balcony, in the style of a terrace house.

A double fronted shop with residence above. The shop front has been modernised with plate glass windows each side of the central door. There is a modern awning which may have replaced a cast iron verandah. Above there are three arched windows framed by pilasters at each end of th...

The building faces Ola Cohn Place, with the rear facing Gipps Street. The outline of the original carriageway entrance can still be seen from Ola Cohn Place.

A terrace of three two storey houses with cast iron balconies. The cast iron is not original and it is not known whether it has been reproduced from an original sample. The cast iron fences and gates are original.

A single storey house featuring a wide, low-pitched gable roof. A central, curved bay window sits below. It is made up of five lead-light segments and protected by a window hood. The lower part of the house is unpainted red brick, while the upper part is rendered with rough cast...

This is an elaborately detailed mock medieval block of flats designed to look like one house, with tuckpointed brick quoins and rough render panels. There is a corbelled brick string course and label mouldings over windows. There is an oriel window to the west facade and fine lea...

Federation style double-fronted villa with terracotta tile roof and timber verandah.

A single storey, single fronted house, with a cement rendered 1930s facade. It has a two storey studio at the rear.

Place

East Melbourne, Gipps Street 104

The residence at 104 Gipps Street is a two storey rendered Brick townhouse with a refined almost Regency air. It is architecturally significant as a fine and unusual example of a nineteenth century townhouse and is unique for the open work cast iron panels on the verandah columns...

Place

East Melbourne, Gipps Street 118, Crathre House

A large two storey cement rendered house in the Italianate style.

This is a fine two storey ruled render terrace residence with unusual tri-partite verandah. The upper floor verandah has brackets forming semi circular arches supported on timber columns and a concave (hipped) corrugated iron roof. There are render enrichments to the party walls...

A terrace of three two storey houses in Regency style. The brick facade is unpainted and there is a timber verandah.