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Boarding Houses
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11 records and collections
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 364, 366
Two houses: the two-storey one on the left was built in 1909 in the garden of the three storey house on the right which was built in 1873. For over fifty years they were together known as Wellpark, a boarding house or guest house. Later one became a restaurant and the other was c...
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East Melbourne, Albert Street 366
The house is built to the footpath, unusual for its time and in the East Melbourne area. It is a single fronted two storey house of red brick with cement mouldings, now painted. A crenelated parapet hides a gabled roof and a rough cast cement frieze runs below the cornice. The wi...
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 154, 156, 158, 160
A wide freestanding Victorian Villa of substantial proportions. It incorporates bracketed eaves, with returns under a gently pitched hipped roof over a sober facade composed symmetrically around a generously proportioned entrance doorway. A substantial fence and gracious steps le...
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 164, 166, Ardee
A two storey, verandahed and parapeted mansion symmetrically composed around an imposing side lighted doorway. The two ground level bay windows are reflected by triple windows at the first floor all with moulded architraves, and set behind an elaborate cast iron verandah supporte...
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East Melbourne, Victoria Parade 164, 166, Hohenzollern
Old postcard advertising accommodation at Hohenzollern. The property was owned and managed by the Misses Hulda and Amalie Eberhard from 1909 to 1917.
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Journeys in time: The VPK - My Key to Adventure
The author tells of his time as a youth working at Herscehll's Films in Jolimont. He lived at 166 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne, which his mother ran as a boarding house. Photos. In Photographic Trader, Number 109.
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Magnolia Court - brochure
Brochure advertising Magnolia Court as boutique hotel, c.2000. The property has a long history as a guesthouse/private hotel and is noted as a place where visiting stage performers would stay. Since then it has become run down. A planning permit for an upgrade has been granted, h...
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Sandra Mackenzie
Two copy photographs of Sandra Mackenzie and others in front of Miss MacDonald's Guest House at 70 Clarendon Street.
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Tasma Terrace
Leaflet produced by the National Trust outlining the history of Tasma Terrace.
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Thomas Rand at The Ritz
Photocopies and transcriptions of letters to and from Thomas Rand who lived at The Ritz, 36 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne, for the year 1925-26. It seems Mrs. Rand was temporarily managing The Ritz boarding house. Two of the letters mention an offer to take over management if...
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To Let ads
Photocopy of To Let column of The Argus 15 January 1923. 11 addresses in East Melbourne and Jolimont. Very little information, no prices, some properties are named.