23 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

23 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
The desirable pair of Victorian era terrace dwellings at 23 & 25 with their own private back yard gardens that once existed on this site was demolished and replaced by the industrial building on the site today.

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
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	Data Source
	to date	Private	source Hatcher Index
1970	1974	R. R. Jamieson P/L	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1965	1965	J. L. Williams P/L	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1950	1960	Mrs. Violet Morris	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930	1945	Thomas ann Mrs. Violet Morris	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925	1925	Mrs. Sarah J. Cutts & H. L. Cutts, (photographer)	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915	1920	Walter Clark	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895	1895	vacant	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1889	1890	Mrs. M. Higton	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1917 The Age
CLARK.— In loving memory of our darling son.
Willie Herbert, -who was killed in action somewhere in France on the 28th July, 1916.
The midnight stars are-shining on a grave I cannot see.
There sleeping without dreaming lies the one so dear to me.
No matter how I pray, dear Willie, no matter how
I call,
There is nothing left to answer but your photo on the wall.
A precious one from us is gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
Some time, some day, our eyes shall see
The dear face we held in memory;
And Christ shall link the broken chain,
Still closer when we meet again;
Our brave hero.
— Inserted by his loving mother and father. Mr. and Mrs. W. Clark, 23 Provost-street, North Melbourne.
source: The Age

1868 The Argus

WANTED, a strong, girl, about 16, as GENERAL SERVANT, good references. Apply 23 Provost street, Hotham.

source: The Argus

1865 The Argus

TADGELL.—On the 17th inst., at 23 Provost-street, North Melbourne, the wife of F. J. Tadgell of a son.

Source: The Argus

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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