18 Roden Street

18 Roden Street
West Melbourne VIC 3003
photographer: Stephen Hatcher

Also known as Bay View Terrace Source: from the 1874 death notice of owner J Falvy
Previous Address 2 Roden Street prior to Council street renumbering
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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

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Subsequent Building Alterations

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

Owners

From To Owner More Info Data Source
to date Private source: Hatcher Index
John Falvy, first Crown land owner source: 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 source: Hatcher Index

Residents

From To Resident More Info Data Source
1965 to date Private source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1955 1960 Andrew Smith source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1930 1950 Mrs. Catherine F. Smith source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1925 1925 Andrew J. Smith source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1915 1915 Mrs. Marion Weir source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1910 1910 Mrs. I Cochran source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1905 1905 William Wilson source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1900 1900 Joseph Woolf source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1895 1895 John Square source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1890 1890 Mrs. Sarah Ward source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1885 1885 Mrs. C Bremner source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1879 1880 Richard A Paul source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
188 1878 Thomas Harvey source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1877 1877 Miss M. Leary source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1876 1876 Mrs. Sowersby source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1874 1875 Robert Mathieson source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1873 1873 W. Cross source: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 337
1872 1872 Michael Scully source: Sands & McDougall directory, pg 315
1870 1871 Harry and Jessie Grover, nee McGuire http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article138065231 source: The Australasian, 11/6/1870 and Sands & McDougall directory page 341
1869 1870 Alexander Tough source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Lynn Kimber 2020
1864 1867 Mark Smith source: 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



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