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Bishopscourt
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19 records and collections
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Bishopscourt - Jean Beck photo album
Selected images from a photo album loaned to Joy Freier by Jean Beck, daughter of the maid serving Bishopscourt under Archbishops Lees and Head.
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Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home
A social history of Bishopscourt Melbourne. It starts with the arrival of Bishop Perry and his choosing of the site for Melbourne's episcopal residence and works through the trials and tribulations that he and his wife experienced in the establishment of a house and a tradition t...
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Bishopscourt Open Day, 30-31 July 2011
Photos and documents relating to Bishopscourt Open Day. Bishopscourt took part in "Melbourne Open House" on 30 and 31 July 2011. Guides provided historical perspectives of the building and its occupants since Bishop Charles and Mrs Frances Perry first took up residence in 1853. A...
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Bishopscourt Refurbishment Appeal
Publicity material for appeal for funds to support the refurbishment of Bishopscourt.
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Bishopscourt Social History
Publicity material for appeal for funds to support the writing of a social history of Bishopscourt, 2010-2011
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Bishopscourt book published
Newspaper articles about the publication of a book on the history of Bishopscourt, titled "Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home" by Elizabeth Rushen. The book was commissioned by Mrs Joy Freier, wife of Archbishop Philip Freier, who wanted it to be a social...
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Bishopscourt garden
Newspaper clipping about the garden at Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, its history, its fall into neglect and its revitalisation under the direction of The Australian Garden History Society (Victoria) with volunteer labour from the local community.
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Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Electoral Rolls 1903, 1906, 1913 and 1919
1 x A4 pages of typed notes being the names of residents living at Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne extracted from Electoral Rolls of 1903, 1906, 1913 and 1919.
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Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Nine trees registered 2012
1 x A4 typed notes referring to listing of 9 trees in the garden of Bishopscourt being listed on the new City of Melbourne Exceptional Tree Register. Also newspaper clipping about the new Register from The Age, 5 July 2012.
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East Melbourne Group - Bishopscourt subdivision 1998
Memo regarding proposed subdivision at Bishopscourt Part of a collection of miscellaneous correspondence and documents circulated among committee members of the East Melbourne Group in the years 1997-98.
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East Melbourne, Bishopscourt, A History
A history of Bishopscourt, with emphasis on the garden. Plans, photos.
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East Melbourne, Bishopscourt, Open garden days 2002, 2003, 2006
Newspaper clippings and pamphlets about open garden day and other visits at Bishopscourt on 12 October 2002, 29-30 Nov. 2003 and 26 April 2006. Photos.
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East Melbourne, Clarendon Street 120 - Burchett
Bluestone part built in 1853 by William Standing as residence for the Bishop of Melbourne - Architects - Newson and Blackburn. Brick additions 1903. Classified by the National Trust of Victoria - see index card for citation
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History in newspapers
A file of newspaper cuttings from the late 1990s relating to Melbourne’s early history. Some relate to East Melbourne. 117 George Street – a report of the sale of Coniston, 117 George Street, East Melbourne. Mentions previous owner Mabel Goodyear. (1996) Bishopscourt – 4 cuttings...
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Open House at Bishopscourt
Newspaper clippings about Melbourne's Open House scheme for 2011. Bishopscourt was part of the program.
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Power House or White Elephant
A review of the book, Bishopscourt Melbourne - Official Residence and Family Home by Elizabeth Rushen (Mosaic Press 2013). The author of the review is David Woods, the son of Sir Frank Woods KBE, Archbishop of Melbourne 1957-77. Published in The Melbourne Anglican, February 2014,...
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Richmond and East Melbourne Sketchbook
Drawings of some landmark buildings in Richmond and East Melbourne with accompanying text giving historical information
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Robert Outhwaite: His Diary and the Painting of the Stag
Robert Outhwaite was a passenger on the Stag, the same ship which in 1847 brought to Melbourne its first bishop, Charles Perry, and his wife, Frances. Frances Perry wrote about the voyage in her journals, in his diary Outhwaite gives another view. In 2017 a painting of the Stag w...
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The Two Wings of Bishopscourt: the reasons for their contrasting styles and the origin of their designs
Article about the two very different wings of the Bishopscourt building. It discusses the sources of the two styles and shows their importance within the architectural movements each represents.