39 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

39 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Stephen Hatcher

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Previous Address
Constructed	1st before 1860, 2nd 1933
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Timelapse Building Images

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Land Details

1895 MMBW map
Compiled Crown Record Plan
The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. J. Baker, first Crown land purchaser

Building Details

1939 The Argus

New D.F. Brick Villa built about six years ago.

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

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	Data Source
	to date	Private	source Hatcher Index
1950	1974	Mrs. N. J. McIntosh	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1950	1965	Harold R. and Mrs. N. J. McIntosh	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1945	1945	John T. Brown	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1940	1940	Mrs. E. V. Brown	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935	1935	Mrs. Eliza R. Brown	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915	1915	Frederick Hossack	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1889	1910	Joseph Young (cab prop) (24)	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1909 North Melbourne Courier

Joseph Youngs said he was a cab driver, and on the 9th, saw the last witness knocked down by a “mail-cart in Errol-st. The wheel hit her but witness could not say whether the wheel went over her. He did not see the driver of the cart. The driver of the cart was on the wrong side of the road.

source: North Melbourne Courier

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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