7 April 2023
There were two competitions for the design, neither built. The first image is the winner of the 1864 competition, by Reed & Barnes, sort of Renaissance with French chateau roofs (a bit odd in my option) . The second image (a bit vague) won an earlier competition in 1853, by Knight & Kemp (Knight was co-designer with Peter Kerr of Parliament House the next year), and looks to be Elizabethan. The WA Government House was built on that style c1860. Both images from ‘Winning Homes; 75 Australian House competitions’, 2020. Last image is what was eventually built in the early 1870s, designed by William Wardell. (Joseph Reed apparently never forgave Wardell for not going ahead with his design, then later building his own restrained Italianate design instead).
Storey of Melbourne 