49 Provost Street | Melbourne Streets

49 Provost Street

North Melbourne VIC 3051

photographer: Felicity Jack 2020

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Timelapse Building Images

photographer Stephen Hatcher

Land Details

1895 MMBW map
Compiled Crown Record Plan
The Argus, 1854 Government Land Sale, Mr. Fulton & others, 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

Owners

From	To	Owner	More Info	Data Source
	to date	Private		source: Hatcher Index
1854		Mr. Fulton & others, first Crown land purchasers		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	M. Sperandio		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1965	1965	A. Panegasio & M. Sperandio		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1960	1960	S. Riggio		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1955	1955	K. Riggio		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1940	1950	William Conway		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1935	1935	Mrs. Mabel A. Gilbee		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1930	1930	vacant		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1915	1920	Mrs. Johanna Murphy		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1910	1910	Thomas M. Black & Robert Conning		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1905	1905	vacant		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1900	1900	James Baker	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10337206	source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.
1895	1895	Mrs. John McCall		source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Stephen Hatcher.

Social History

1904 Bendigo Advertiser

ROUGH FOOTBALL

Melbourne, 28th August.

A young man named Wm. Baker, 29 years of age, who resides at 49 Provost-street, North Melbourne, met with a serious accident on Saturday. He was playing football at Richmond, when he was knocked down, and while on the ground was accidentally trodden on by several players. The man was removed to the Melbourne Hospital, where it was found that he had sustained severe internal injuries, his liver and kidneys being in a terribly bruised condition.

source: Bendigo Advertiser

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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