Houses

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East Melbourne, Grey Street 151, Worsley

Photograph of Worsley, 151 Grey Street (2 Grey Street pre-1890), now the site of the Mercy Private Hospital. Photo shows a symmetrical, single storey, double fronted house, with arcaded verandah. The house was built c. 1867 for Henry Hall, chemist. Architects: Austin & Ellis. Bui...

Research notes establishing history of Worsley (see VF 419). Family history notes showing relationship between original owner, Henry Hall, and researcher, Joan Glover. (Rev. Edward Fethers, a locum vicar at Holy Trinity, was also part of this family.) Copy of map giving purchaser...

Brochure advertising auction of 20 Simpson Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 7 April. Photo. Plan.

File contains images used for East Melbourne Festa display in 2008. The display was intended as a case study of how to research the history of your house. Henry Cooke's house in Clarendon Street was used as the example. Images include: Mr. Cooke's House 1853, drawing by Jane Cann...

Oil painting of two terrace houses in Gipps Street.

Newspaper article on Makeela, 82 Powlett Street, part of Canterbury Terrace, which was scheduled for auction on 20 March 2004. Photos.

Two photographs. One shows house at 35 Powlett Street. The house is almost entirely covered in creeper. The second coloured photo shows the sculpture outside the I.C.I. Building in Albert Street. Also photocopy with inscription by donor.

Newspaper article featuring the home of Greg Ladner, milliner, which he created out of the old Latvian Lutheran Church. Two apartments are also part of the complex. 8 October 2005.

Newspaper clipping about auctions of 101 and 105 Wellington Parade South scheduled for 28 May 2005.

In 2006 the East Melbourne Historical Society collaborated with the Australian Catholic University to conduct oral histories with 15 East Melbourne residents. Dr John Brick was in charge of the History Methods course and the interviews were to be part of the students' assignments...

Newspaper article about 131 Powlett Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for auction on 10 May 1980. (Photocopy).

Newspaper article describes aspects of living in East Melbourne and gives median prices. On same page is an advertisement for the sale of 70 Gipps Street. The Age, 22 March 2000, Domain.

Newspaper clipping about Ron and Jenni Stone and the refurbishment of their house at 52 Berry Street, East Melbourne. Photos. The Age, 1 September 2004.

Newspaper clipping reporting on failed sale of Mornington, 105 Wellington Parade South. 29 May 2005.

Real estate article about Mozart, 105 George Street scheduled for auction on 14 February, 1987. Also copy photo of Mozart c.1975, from the Burchett files held in the East Melbourne Library.

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Mr. Cooke's House

Copy of pencil drawing of Mr. Henry Cooke's House, then known as Egglestone Villa. A later owner Thomas Welton Stanford called it Stanford House. Later again it was the Arms of Jesus Babies' Home. Originally a prefabricated house, believed to be the first private house in East Me...

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Open House Day

Five typescript pages giving brief histories of five houses that were open as part of a fund raising open day c.1976. The notes were prepared by the owners of the houses at the time. A copy of a sixth history from the archives of Holy Trinity is also included.

Article about revised development plans for Mosspennoch site. Leader, 27 Sept. 2004.

Book published on occasion of like named exhibition at State Library of Victoria. Covers early Government Buildings and surveys. Includes Lonsdale and his cottage, La Trobe and his cottage. Illustrations.

Real estate advertisement for Rubra, 72 Hotham Street, part of Queen Bess Row, inviting expressions of interest closing 12 Nov. 2004.

Article on history of Queen Bess Row.

Real estate advertisements for various houses in East Melbourne. Some unidentified. Line drawings. Photos.

Short item about sale and demolition of Cliveden. Includes useful background detail. Editor's note in The Victorian Historical Magazine, August 1968.

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St. Anne's 154 Gipps Street East Melbourne - 1970

Photograph of St. Anne's, 154 Gipps Street, just prior to its demolition in 1970. It is now part of the Mercy Hospital site. The house was previously known as Stokesay.