Tag: 1890s
Beaconsfield Parade Middle Park - every man’s home is his Castle 😊. I suppose whoever built it was from there (the one in the uk I mean). Don’t know much about it except that it was built before 1895, so probably c1890 at the end of the land boom, and before there was much in … Continue reading New Castle
Original post 18 February 2020 Photos 3 December 2019 I pass this nearly every day on the way to the shops or the tram - and now I finally know that yes it was built as a bank like I thought. Designed by #ReedHendersonAndSmart and built 1890 (the year #JosephReedArchitect died of ‘inanition’) it was … Continue reading Another ex-bank, St Kilda.
November 2019, updated 2025 The fantastic long demolished Fish Markets once at the far end of Flinders Street; one of the great loses, but then in the 1950s there was no such thing as heritage listing, and Victoriana was actively disliked. Ive collected a whole bunch of images, mainly via Facebook, mainly originally the State … Continue reading Fish Market, Flinders Street
The #FlemingtonFireStation, built 1896, across the road from the 1891 #FlemingtonCourtHouse, almost but not really a civic precinct. Love the #horseshoearch (note it’s not a #keyholearch, slightly different), no architect listed, but this arch pretty much the same as the #ElsternwickFireStation, same date, so prob same architect, #JTKelleher. It stopped being a fire station in … Continue reading Flemington Fire Station – horseshoe arch for horses.
December 2018 Looks a bit like a Russian church, but it’s #FlemingtonPostOffice, 1890, another wonderfull eclectic design from the #PublicWorksDepartment when they went all creative in the 1890s. Flemington for some reason has a great bunch of public buildings arrayed up a side street, taking advantage of the pointy corner sites, but a long way … Continue reading Flemington Post Office, a real eclectic delight.
Look what I found wandering home up a side street from #christmaslunch - the fabbo #FlemingtonCourtHouse, built 1891. Lombardic Romanesque ? Italian Byzantine ? All of the above ! Designed by #AJMacDonald, at a time in the later 1880s when the #PublicWorksDepartment were let loose to be inventive after decades of classical restraint. The police … Continue reading A J MacDonald PWD star !
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
Storey of Melbourne 