37 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

37 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Previous Address
Constructed	before 1876
Style
Architect
Builder	[George] Thomson [Roden Street]

Timelapse Building Images

1983

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.

TENDERS WANTED, for PLASTERERS WORK of three four roomed cottages Apply Thomson, contractor, Provost-street, Hotham. Labour only.

source: The Argus

Subsequent Building Alterations

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Architectural Features

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Heritage Significance and Listings

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes
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.

Heritage Listings and Explanatory Notes

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
	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
	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
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.

Other Information

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