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Timelapse Building Images
Land Details
- 1895 MMBW map
- Compiled Crown Record Plan
- The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. John Downie, first Crown land purchaser
Building Details

1901 The Age
One four roomed building and one two roomed weatherboard building both with slate roofs.
source: The Age
Subsequent Building Alterations
Architectural Features
Heritage Significance and Listings
Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes |
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The two desirable timber Victorian era buildings with their own back yard garden that once existed on this site were demolished and replaced by the existing single story brick industrial building. |
Owners
From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
1854 | Mr. Thomas Le Mesurier Winter, first Crown land purchaser | 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 |
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to date | Private | source Hatcher Index | ||
1970 | 1974 | Allied Ironfounders P/L | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1935 | 1965 | Robert Evans | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1930 | 1930 | James P. Harrigan | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1925 | 1925 | Walter C. Ryan | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1920 | 1920 | David Barry | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1905 | 1915 | Mrs. Eliza Regan | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1905 | 1905 | Richard & Mrs. Eliza Regan | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1895 | 1900 | Mrs. Ann Graham | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article103378050 | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. |
1879 | 1895 | Archibald & Mrs. Ann Graham | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. |
Social History
1899 North Melbourne Courier
source: North Melbourne Courier

Context and Streetscape
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This property sits within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. |
Zoning |
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This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.
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Streetscape |
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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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