16 June 2015:
Grantown House Nicholson Street Fitzroy. Possibly the most ornate and impressive and impressively decayed single #terracehouse in #melbourne. Look at all those urns, delicate cast iron and stuff ! Started as two floors in the 1850s and extensively added to in 1871, and again in 1876, when the top floor and left bay probably added. Heritage listings don’t state an architect but the ‘Fitzroy Research’ blog names George Brown, who designed Rupertswood and the long gone Theatre Royal.
From 1871 it was a girls school (the young #NellieMelba attended), then by 1880 it was a superior boarding house, with ‘private suites, hot and cold baths and a professional cook’, no doubt popular during the International Exhibition across the road that year. Now it’s a not so superior boarding house.
First shot 2017, when there were fewer trees than the other 2015 photos. B&W is 1986, Fitzroy Library.
Storey of Melbourne 