VHD Wardlow was built by CC Fewster in 1888 for John Boyes, owner of the Brunswick Iron Foundry The architect is not known, but was possibly the partnership of Twentyman Askew, who three years later designed a warehouse for Boyes in Russell Street, contracting to the same builder, Fewster
VHD Morell Bridge over the Yarra River at Anderson Street, South Yarra was constructed in 1899 by the firm of Monash and Anderson using the Monier concrete construction technique The Monier system of construction was patented in 1867 by Joseph Monier, a French manufacturer of garden ware He used a grid of small-diameter iron bars embedded in a coarse mortar especially for the construction of
VHD The first homestead and woolshed of Wando Estate, or Wando Station or Wando B as it was known in earlier days, were located on the east bank of the Wando River, approximately 1 5km south-east of the present homestead The squatting run had been taken up by William Corney in 1840 and he purchased the Pre-emptive Right in 1852 The property passed through various hands and in c1886, Wando
VHD The facade to Toorak Road is the most strongly modelled and impressive of the various Old English shopfronts associated with this area Symmetrical like most other examples, its features a canted first floor on timber brackets, with half timbering and a combination of gable and helm roofs clad with terracotta tiles The central bay to the first floor projects out as a flat oriel, and the
VHD What is significant?European settlement in the Numurkah district of Northern Victoria began in the 1830s led by Victorian pastoralists and New South Wales overlanders The Strathmerton [or Ulupna] run on which the Coonanga homestead stands was first taken up by a pastoralist named Mundy in 1840 Benjamin Boyd, whose ambitious pastoral schemes in the Australian colonies were funded by the Royal
VHD Statement of Significance The historic importance of the Echuca Railway hinges on the number of extant structures dating from the opening of the fine They include the Elmore Elphinstone design for station buildings, which is peculiar to this line, and the number and diversity of examples of the Carlsruhe group of buildings The line also includes the largest and most spectacular collection
VHD The Winter Park cluster subdivision, comprising twenty detached houses on a 2 43 hectare (six acre) site, was designed by architect Graeme Gunn together with Merchant Designs (architect Rob White) for the firm Merchant Builders Pty Ltd which constructed the development in stages between 1970 and 1974 The four groups of five houses are located around communal car and pedestrian access ways
VHD The Glendinning Homestead complex, named after one of its first owners, Christopher Glendinning, is located on the Pendyk Creek at the southern end of Rocklands Dam and approximately 15 0kms south-east of Balmoral The property, which dates from 1841 when Simon Cadden took up the squatting licence, has a had a sequence of very significant owners representing some of the earliest and most
VHD What is significant? The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park envelopes a goldfield which was the catalyst for the Victorian gold rush of the early 1850s In that tumultuous decade Victorian gold transformed the demographic, social, political and economic complexion of Australia The gold won from Mount Alexander (later renamed Castlemaine) and other early rushes such as Ballarat and