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Constructed | before 1876 |
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Architect | |
Builder | [George] Thomson [Roden Street] |
Timelapse Building Images

photographer: Graeme Butler
Land Details
Building Details

1875 The Argus
TENDERS WANTED, for SLATER’S WORK of three four roomed cottages. Apply Thomson, contractor, Provost street. Hotham.
source: The Argus
source: The Argus
Subsequent Building Alterations
Architectural Features
Heritage Significance and Listings
Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes |
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As at 2022, this historic building is one of only seventeen heritage buildings that remains and survived the wave of new developments in Provost street. This group of three buildings, 33, 35 and 37, are unique for their simple and understated Victorian facade and their association to the families who lived here over the years. |
Owners
From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
1854 | Mr. J. Baker, 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 | Verna | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1960 | 1965 | C. Tence | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1945 | 1955 | James and Elizabeth Ovenstone | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205155336 | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. |
1940 | 1940 | Marcus Martin | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1935 | 1935 | Mrs. Vera Horne | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1930 | 1930 | vacant | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1925 | 1925 | Robert Maslen | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1920 | 1920 | James Mitchell | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1915 | 1915 | Michael Cahill | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1910 | 1910 | Stanley Farr | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1905 | 1905 | Joseph Floyd | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1900 | 1900 | Edward Allen | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. | |
1887 | 1895 | James Hill | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher. |
Social History
Context and Streetscape
Precinct |
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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. |
Other Information
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