3 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

3 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Previous Address
Constructed	1st before 1860, 2nd 1970s
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Land Details

1895 MMBW map
Compiled Crown Record Plan
The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. P. Hayes, 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 highly sought after Victorian era terrace dwelling with its own private back yard garden that once existed on this site was demolished and replaced by the industrial building on the site today. The factory has since been converted into a family home.

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source: Hatcher Index
1854		Mr. P. Hayes, 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
	to date	Private		source Hatcher Index
1970	1974	Mason Duflex P/L		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1940	1965	Michael B. Fitzgerald		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935	1935	Peter J. Brown		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930	1930	vacant		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1925	1925	Charles D. Allen		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1920	1920	Mrs. Cath Croke		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915	1915	William Rerden		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1912		Mrs. Ida Hobbs	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article241642467	source: The Herald
1900	1910	Mrs. L. F. J. Newnham		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895	1895	Thomas Woods, store		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1890	1890	John J. Callaghan grcr		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1887	1887	Joseph Dunn		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1873		William Vincent		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1871	1872	John Tab		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1870	1870	Mrs. McNichol, dressmaker		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1868	1869	James Dawson		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1865	1867	Michael Laffan & F. Rule, bootmaker		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1862	1865	Francis Beuer & F. Rule, bootmaker		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1912 The Herald

IN MAN’S ATTIRE.

YOUNG WOMAN’S ESCAPADE

CHARGES OP LARCENY.

“Call Maria Lavell,” said Sergeant Slattery at the Carlton Court to-day, and a young woman dressed like a youth, in a dark tweed suit, with a black neckerchief, and holding a white felt hat in her left hand, came forward. Accused, who had the appearance of a strong, healthy youth of 18 years, was charged with having stolen a gold ring, valued at £2/10/, the property of Ida Hobbs.

Ida Hobbs, married woman, residing at 3 Provost street, North Melbourne, stated that on August 1 she was residing at the corner of Cross and Cardigan Streets, Carlton, with her mother-in-law. Maria Lavell, who was her sister-in-law, was also there. She was married, but living apart from her husband, having been married when sho was nbout 15 yearn of ago….

source: The Herald

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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