19 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

19 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Land Details

1895 MMBW map
Compiled Crown Record Plan
The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. Thomas Le Measurier Winter, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

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Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
The desirable early Victorian era shop and dwelling with its own back yard garden that once existed on this site was demolished and replaced by the industrial building on the site today after 1925.

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source: Hatcher Index
1854		Mr. Thomas Le Mesurier Winter, first Crown land purchaser	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84768564	source: Hatcher Index

Residents

From	To	Resident	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source Hatcher Index
1970	1974	R. R. Jamieson P/L		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1950	1965	J. L. Williams P/L		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1945	1945	Findlay & Reynolds		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1940	1940	Konkrete Paint P/L		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935	1935	storage		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930	1930	J. L. Williams, (plmr)		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925	1925	George W. Ware		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1920	1920	James Saville		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915	1915	Mrs. J. Purcell		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905	1912	Mrs. Margaret Keenan	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197369770	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1900	1900	Mrs. E. Holz, (grngcr)		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895	1895	Mrs. J. Toomey, (confr)		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1890	1890	Edward Golding		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1889	1889	Mrs. Morgan		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1938 The Weekly Times

There is a paint made In Melbourne with cement as a base, by Konkrete Paint (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., 19 Provost Street. North Melbourne, which can be had in many colors, and would suit your purpose. A cement wash or paint made of 2.5lbs. cement 16 1 pint of boiled linseed oil is recommended by Lysaght (Aust.) Ltd. for the painting of galvanised iron tanks, but whether it is applicable to timber we do not know. (2) Cement Washed Hessian. — This treatment is adequately described on page 29 of “Concrete and Cement Work. published for United Press. Herald Buildings. Melbourne. price 1/.

source: The Weekly Times

1912 The Age

KEENAN.— On the 13th April, at Dr. Stirling’s private hospital, Margaret Keenan, of 19 Provost-street, North Melbourne, widow of Patrick Keenan, and beloved motlier of Richard Keenan, Sydney, and sister of Mrs. Bedelia Keenan, North Melbourne, aged 68 years.

source: The Age

Context and Streetscape

Precinct
This property sits 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

Zoning
The controls listed below affect this property: MUZ (Mixed Use Zone)Schedule DDO31 (DDO31 North Melbourne Central)Schedule DDO66 (DDO66 Hospital Helicopter Flight Path Outer Area)Schedule HO3 (North & West Melbourne Precinct)Schedule PO12 (Parking Overlay 12)Schedule This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.

Streetscape
Provost Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, a green grocer shop, butcher shop, pork purveyors, a dairy, a confectioner, dressmaker, bootmaker shop, horse livery, wood yard, cabies, a Coach builder and hotels at either end known as the North Star Hotel at Abbotsford Street corner and Commercial Hotel on the Curzon Street corner. Provost streetscape today is characterised by significantly less heritage dwellings, an addition of some contemporary multi-storey townhouses, and some 1940s to 1960s industrial buildings. In 2022, only seventeen of the original forty seven heritage buildings remain (64% destroyed) which once existed on Provost street, compared to an 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map. As of 2022, some addresses on this street’s density level has been allowed to rise by four to five times larger, due to recent increase in council approved multi-level building redevelopments since 1895. In some cases, unrestricted increases in density can be detrimental to existing residents enjoyment of amenity and quality of life.

Streetscape

Provost Street was once predominantly a residential street with single and two storey Victorian terrace dwellings, a green grocer shop, butcher shop, pork purveyors, a dairy, a confectioner, dressmaker, bootmaker shop, horse livery, wood yard, cabies, a Coach builder and hotels at either end known as the North Star Hotel at Abbotsford Street corner and Commercial Hotel on the Curzon Street corner.

Provost streetscape today is characterised by significantly less heritage dwellings, an addition of some contemporary multi-storey townhouses, and some 1940s to 1960s industrial buildings.

In 2022, only seventeen of the original forty seven heritage buildings remain (64% destroyed) which once existed on Provost street, compared to an 1895 Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works map.

As of 2022, some addresses on this street’s density level has been allowed to rise by four to five times larger, due to recent increase in council approved multi-level building redevelopments since 1895. In some cases, unrestricted increases in density can be detrimental to existing residents enjoyment of amenity and quality of life.

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