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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 157 - Burchett
Built 1865 - 3 room brick cottage for George Milton. Builder James Dixon.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159 - Burchett
Built in 1862 by Ravenscroft and Oldfield for Eugene von Guerard, painter and director of the National Gallery. 8 storey brick house. later occupied by Lord and Lady Casey.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159, Little Parndon
This is an early handmade brick residence of 2 storeys. The facade is simply composed with three bays of exposed brick with a simple brick cornice.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159, Little Parndon
Auction brochure for 159 Gipps Street, scheduled for 15 June 2013. Photos. Plans. Separate sheet with outline of property's history. Also two articles from The Age: 5-6 July 2013; 17 June 2013. Sold $1,750.000
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159, Little Parndon
Photocopy of page from Richmond and East Melbourne Sketchbook, drawings by Arno Roger-Genersh and text by Brian Carroll. Drawing of house. Brief history of Little Parndon, 159 Gipps Street, and original owner, Eugene von Guerard, and later owner, Lord Casey.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 159, Little Parndon. 2013
A series of 16 photos taken at the time the house was open for inspection prior to sale. The house had been owned by Lord and Lady Casey. Lord Casey died in 1976 and Lady Casey in 1983. From that time until 2013 the house remained in the hands of the Trustees of Lady Casey's esta...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 160
When owner Leonard Terry put his house on the market it was described in the Argus of 6 July 1872 as, "That spacious and substantially built FAMILY MANSION, containing drawingroom 18ft x 16ft, dining room 18ft x 16ft, schoolroom 27ft x 14ft ; five bedrooms 18ft x 16ft, 18ft x 16f...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 165, 167, 169 - Burchett
Built 1871 by James Harper, Builder, for the Rev James Caldwell. Three 2 storey brick houses. Notable for the coach house entrance at 165. Rev James Caldwell lived at 18 Gore Street, Fitzroy and was minister at the St. Georges Presbyterian Church, Collingwood.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 165, Hope Terrace
Brochure advertising auction of 165 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 7 August 1993
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 165, Hope Terrace
One of a row of three, two-storeyed houses, of which No. 165 possesses a porte cochere (i.e. a porch, large enough to accommodate wheeled vehicles). The row is decorated to present a single identity, i.e. the parapet is plain, and unbroken over the three houses and there is a cen...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 173
Auction brochure for 173 Gipps Street, scheduled for 26 October 2001. Interior and exterior photos. Plans on separate sheet.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 173
Brochure advertising auction of 173 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, scheduled for 27 June 1998
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 173 - Burchett
Built 1860 by George Black for Charles James Hodgson. 2 Storey stone house of 8 rooms. thought to be the oldest surviving house in Gipps Street. occupied 1862 by Frederick Haller and later in 1870 by Dr. John Singleton, doctor, social worker and reformer who later had his surgery...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179
A large two storey house in the Italianate manner
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179
Auction brochure for 179 Gipps Street (previously Ormiston, now Chrysalis), scheduled for 14 November (c.1998). Internal and external photos.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179
Newspaper clippings about forthcoming auction of 179 Gipps Street on 17 May 2012.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179
Brochure advertising auction of 179 Gipps Street, East Melbourne, scheduled 14 November 1998.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 179 - Burchett
Built 1861 by S Ward for John Thomas Greenwood a 2 storey brick house in Italianate manner. Sold 1869 to Rev David Nimmo, pastor of the Congregational Church, who extended the house for sister to conduct a Ladies College, Ormiston House. Sold again 1871 to Robert Ramsay MLA.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 180 - Burchett
Built 1864 for Samuel Ramsden - a fine brick and stone mansion of 20 rooms. Ramsden lived in the house 1864 - 1876 and his widow until 1886. Ramsden operated the Carlton Flour Mills and in 1868c established a paper mill on the Yarra bank near Princes Bridge. House demolished in 1...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 180, Verona
A pencil sketch of Verona, on the corner of Gipps and Clarendon Streets. It is viewed from the Fitzroy Gardens across Clarendon Street. The sketch is from an album of 24 sketches from around Melbourne and Victoria by K Kennedy and dated 1876. It is inscribed 'Mr Ramsden's East Me...
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 181
Auction brochure for 181 Gipps Street, scheduled for 21 October 2000. Interior and exterior coloured photos. Plans. Similar for 12 December 2009; 24 April 2010.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 181
Two storey red brick dwelling with terracotta tile roof, leadlight windows and verandah with double ionic columns. There is a clinker brick soldier course , interesting reinforced concrete and wrought iron fence. [City of Melbourne i-Heritage database]
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 181 - 2012
Photograph of 181 Gipps Street, East Melbourne
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 181-189. Grounds for objecting to the VCAT appeal
A document prepared by neighbour Richard Williams, for VCAT hearing in the case of 181-189 Gipps Street, East Melbourne. The Applicant had been refused a permit by the Council to build three three-storey apartments on the site in 2014. He appealed at VCAT in 2016 where the Counci...