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Timelapse Building Images
1923-1930
Victoria Market, looking to Flagstaff Gardens.
Photographer Pratt, Charles Daniel, 1892-1968.
source: State Library of Victoria
Land Details
- 1895 MMBW Map
- Compiled Crown Record Plan
Building Details
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Subsequent Building Alterations
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Architectural Features
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Heritage Significance and Listings
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The original Victorian period home, once the family home of the Calwell’s and many other families over time that once existed on this site was demolished. |
Owners
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| to date | Private | source: Hatcher index | ||
| Mr. R. Hepburn, 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
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| to date | Private | source: Hatcher index | ||
| 1913 | Albert Arthur Calwell and Margaret Annie Calwell nee McLoughlin | http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201136053 | source: The Age |
Social History
CALWELL.—On the 19th January, at her residence, 391 King-street, West Melbourne, Margaret
Annie, the dearly loved wife of Arthur Albert Calwell (constable of police), aged 41 years.
Mother of Arthur Augustus Calwell.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201136053
Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973), politician, was born on 28 August 1896 at the home of Arthur and Margaret Calwell, 391 King Street, West Melbourne, eldest of seven children of Arthur Albert Calwell, a police constable who was to rise to the rank of superintendent, and his wife Margaret Ann, née McLoughlin, both Victorian born. Arthur’s paternal grandfather Davis Calwell was an American, whose Ulster Protestant father had served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Davis came to Victoria in 1853 and married a diminutive Welshwoman Elizabeth Lewis who became, in Arthur’s phrase, ‘the matriarch of the tribe’. His mother, who died when he was 16, was the daughter of an Irishman Michael McLoughlin, who is thought to have deserted ship in Melbourne in 1847. Calwell recorded: ‘I grew up in [the] crowded inner [city] area, with its cottages built on fourteen-feet frontages and even less, and with evidence of human misery visible to all’. Aged 6, he suffered a near fatal attack of diphtheria, to which he attributed the high-pitched huskiness of his mature voice.
Arthur Augustus Calwell (28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973) served as the leader of the Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. He led the party to three federal elections.
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calwell-arthur-augustus-9667
Context and Streetscape
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The current property is 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
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The controls listed below affect this property:
This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority.
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