18 Roden Street

18 Roden Street
West Melbourne VIC 3003
photographer: Stephen Hatcher

Also known as Bay View TerraceSource: from the 1874 death notice of owner J Falvy
Previous Address 2 Roden Street prior to Council street renumbering
Constructed
Style
Architect
Builder

Timelapse Building Images

http://maps.melbourne.vic.gov.au/

1950s

20, 18 and 14 Roden Street West Melbourne.

“There is an airy elegance about this design with the calm of the row of pedimented windows broken by the smooth ellips of the carriageway arch and the sweep of the light veranda roofs.”

source: Early Melbourne Architecture 1840-1888 by Geoffrey Cumberlege 1954.

image source: Early Melbourne Architecture 1840-1888 by Geoffrey Cumberlege 1954.


Land Details

  1. 1895 MMBW map
  2. Compiled Crown Record Plan map showing first Crown land purchaser was Mr. J. Falvy

Building Details

No Entries Found

Subsequent Building Alterations

No Entries Found

Architectural Features



    No Entries Found


Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

Owners

FromToOwnerMore InfoData Source
to datePrivatesource: Hatcher Index
John Falvy, first Crown land ownersource: Hatcher Index
abt 40 thousand years earlier1835Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Victoriasource: Hatcher Index

Residents

FromToResidentMore InfoData Source
1965to datePrivatesource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19551960Andrew Smithsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19301950Mrs. Catherine F. Smithsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19251925Andrew J. Smithsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19151915Mrs. Marion Weirsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19101910Mrs. I Cochransource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19051905William Wilsonsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
19001900Joseph Woolfsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18951895John Squaresource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18901890Mrs. Sarah Wardsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18851885Mrs. C Bremnersource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18791880Richard A Paulsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1881878Thomas Harveysource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18771877Miss M. Learysource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18761876Mrs. Sowersbysource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18741875Robert Mathiesonsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18731873W. Crosssource: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 337
18721872Michael Scullysource: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 315
18701871Harry and Jessie Grover, nee McGuirehttp://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138065231source: The Australasian, 11/6/1870 and Sands & McDougall directory page 341
18691870Alexander Toughsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
18641867Mark Smithsource: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020

Social History

18 Bayview Terrace, Roden Street, West Melbourne was once the home of Harry and Jessie Grover in 1870 where their son Montague was born.

Montague MacGregor (Monty) Grover (1870-1943), journalist, was born on 31 May 1870 at West Melbourne, son of Harry Ehret Grover, old Etonian and former gold escort officer, from Hertfordshire, England, and his wife Jessie, née McGuire, of Melbourne, for many years a contributor to Melbourne Punch and the Bulletin‘s ‘Red Page’. Monty was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1881) and Queen’s College, St Kilda, and attended art school for two years. In 1888-92 he was articled to a firm of architects.

https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/grover-montague-macgregor-monty-6500


Montague Grover was the foundation editor of The Sun News-Pictorial, Australia’s first pictorial newspaper, which enjoyed immediate success in 1922 and became the nation’s top-selling daily. Grover, more than any other individual, brought popular tabloid journalism to Australia after being impressed by the Northcliffian revolution in London in the 1890s when advertisements were thrown off the front page in favour of bold headlines, big pictures and crisply-written stories. Grover was also a playwright, biographer, mentor and a teetotalling raconteur who mentored some of Australia’s finest newspaper people. For many years, the Herald and Weekly Times named its annual cadet journalist prize after him.

 

https://halloffame.melbournepressclub.com/article/montague—monty—grover



Context and Streetscape

Precinct

Streetscape

Other Information

[93]

Copyright status: This work is in copyright.
Conditions of use: Use of this work allowed provided the creators name and Hotham History Project Inc are acknowledged.

If you or someone you know has any more to add either by old photos or stories of this area, please contact us today. Email info@hothamhistory.org.au