| Also known as | Oliver’s row |
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| Previous Address | 8 Miller Street before 1889 street renumbering by council |
| Constructed | 27/10/1866 |
| Style | Victorian, Mid: 1860-1875 |
| Architect | |
| Builder | James Oliver |
Timelapse Building Images
1983
photographer, Graeme Butler
Land Details
1. 1895 MMBW map
2. Compiled Crown Record Plan (http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7305206)
3. Old Title 1918.
4. Solomon Solomon purchased this crown allotment. He in Collins Street Melbourne but sold up in 1865 and left for America.
Important and Extensive Clearing Sale of Valuable City and Suburban Properties, Mining Shares, Building Society and Companies’ Shares comprising – Allotments, Franklin street west, near Laughton’s Soho Foundry, Melbourne, Brick cottages and land at Little Provost street Hotham, Allotments, corner of Hawke and Miller Streets opposite the Benevolent Asylum. Crown Hotel and land at Prahran. Farm of 128 acres near Broadmeadows. Government allotments at Sunbury. Mining shares, Building Society shares, Ice Company shares.
The property of Mr. S. Solomon, who is leaving the Colony for the Americas.
The whole for absolute sale by Mr Robert Byrne to sell at auction at the rooms 40 Collins Street east on Tuesday 6th December 1865 at Twelve o’clock noon precisely.
The Herald, Tuesday 5th December 1865.
Building Details
Notice of intent to build.
Street: Miller
Application Number: 1722. Date 27/10/1866
Owner and Builder: James Oliver
Fee: 1.10.0
Type: three room house
Other significant building works carried out by James Oliver can be seen here.
source; Burchett Index
Subsequent Building Alterations
House is missing an original 1866 Victorian style front door as well as a Victorian style picket fence and gate.
Question. When the lacework was restored on the veranda after 1983, was it the original lace or new lace. If new lace how did it match or differ in style to the original veranda lace.
Architectural Features
Doors
TimberQueen Ann revival
Sue Scarfe photographer
Lacework
Cast IronSue Scarfe photographer
Hardware
Other metalSue Scarfe photographer
Fin Wall
ConcreteSue Scarfe photographer
Fence
BrickSue Scarfe photographer
Windows
GlassSue Scarfe photographer
Lacework
Cast IronSue Scarfe photographer
Heritage Significance and Listings
| Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes |
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How is it significant? Why is it significant?
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Owners
| From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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| 1975 | to date | Private | Hatcher Index | |
| 1964 | 1974 | John Camilleri | Hatcher Index | |
| 1935 | 1963 | George Ward | Hatcher Index | |
| 1924 | 1934 | Hugh Kavanagh | Hatcher Index | |
| 1919 | 1923 | Hannah Bates | Hatcher Index | |
| 1898 | 1918 | Elizabeth Edgerton | Hatcher Index | |
| 1874 | 1897 | William Edgerton | Hatcher Index | |
| 1866 | 1873 | James Oliver | Hatcher Index | |
| 1858 | 1865 | Solomon Solomon (first crown land purchaser) | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155036655 | Hatcher Index |
| abt 40 thousand years earlier | 1835 | Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoria | Hatcher Index |
Residents
| From | To | Resident | More Info | Data Source |
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| 1975 | to date | Private | Hatcher Index | |
| 1972 | 1974 | John Camilleri | Hatcher Index | |
| 1967 | 1971 | Joseph & Mary Ciantar | Hatcher Index | |
| 1965 | 1965 | Victor Christie | Hatcher Index | |
| 1964 | 1964 | Liciannie or Luciano Rizzo | Hatcher Index | |
| 1955 | 1963 | William Thomas Dunstan | Hatcher Index | |
| 1939 | 1954 | Norman Scholten | Hatcher Index | |
| 1936 | 1937 | Thomas Richard Smith | Hatcher Index | |
| 1924 | 1934 | Hugh Kavanagh | Hatcher Index | |
| 1921 | 1921 | Arthur George King | Hatcher Index | |
| 1919 | 1923 | Hannah Bates | Hatcher Index | |
| 1920 | 1920 | Edward Bates | Hatcher Index | |
| 1905 | 1919 | Thomas Jones | Hatcher Index | |
| 1900 | 1904 | Arthur Wisby or Wisbey | Hatcher Index | |
| 1898 | 1899 | Ernest S. Edgerton (son of William and Elizabeth) | Hatcher Index | |
| 1894 | 1897 | William Herbert | Hatcher Index | |
| 1891 | 1893 | Mrs. Whitton | Hatcher Index | |
| 1884 | 1890 | George Barlow | Hatcher Index | |
| 1883 | 1883 | John Bennett | Hatcher Index | |
| 1882 | 1882 | Miss Worrell | Hatcher Index | |
| 1877 | 1880 | Robert S. Whiting | Hatcher Index | |
| 1877 | 1877 | Mrs. Milton | Hatcher Index | |
| 1876 | 1876 | Joseph T. Ford | Hatcher Index | |
| 1875 | 1875 | Mrs Brittan | Hatcher Index | |
| 1874 | 1876 | Henry T. ‘Harry’ Pullen | Hatcher Index | |
| 1873 | 1873 | Andrew Love M.L.A. | Hatcher Index | |
| 1871 | 1872 | John Melville | Hatcher Index | |
| 1868 | 1870 | Merrick | Hatcher Index |
Social History
1879 Joseph & Elizabeth Whiting.
Joseph Whiting was born on 31 March 1803 in Middlesex, his father, Peter, was 37 and his mother, Mary, was 28. He married Ann Lorne and they had seven children together. She passed away in 1846 in London and Joseph later married Elizabeth Jane Selman Maynard in London. Elizabeth was born in 1816 in Plymouth, Devon, and they had four children together.
In 1843, Joseph Whiting was convicted and sentenced to 2 months imprisonment in England for larceny. In 1845 a directory showed their address was number 14 Polygon, Clarendon Square, London. His occupation was a Coach Smith.
Joseph and Elizabeth Whiting along with their four children left London sometime after the birth of Eliza in 1851 in London and before little Eliza’s death in Melbourne in 1852.
The Whiting family lived at 15 Miller Street West Melbourne.
Son Robert Selman Whiting married Rosetta Cohn in 1879, the same year his father Joseph passed away.
Robert Selman Whiting became a distinguished Solicitor and Pastoralist. A member of the legal firm Whiting and Byrne, William Street. He graduated from the Law School of the University of Melbourne. In pastoral affairs he was associated with, among others, the late Sir Rupert Clarke, and in partnership with him, owned Isis Downs Station (Q).
The Argus, 18th June 1929, page 6.
The Age
1868 John Melville & Emma Louisa Barrett.
The Argus
Context and Streetscape
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The current property resides within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. source: https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/history-city-of-melbourne.pdf historical map source: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/search-discover/explore-collections-format/maps/maps-melbourne-city-suburbs |
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This streetscape contains a collection of historic Victorian and Federation buildings. The homes are socially and historically significant buildings for the early development of North & West Melbourne in their own right. |
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