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Constructed | 1859 |
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Land Details
Building Details
Subsequent Building Alterations
Architectural Features
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Walls
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Gate
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Doors
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Hardware
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Windows
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Windows
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Fence
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Hardware
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Walls
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Building Ornamentation
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Walls
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Windows
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Building Ornamentation
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Lacework
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Lacework
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Windows
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Balcony
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Fin Wall
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Heritage Significance and Listings
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Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) Number H0631 Statement of Significance What is significant? Dean was a stonemason and lived in the house for short periods but generally leased it until selling in 1897. The house is a two-storey parapeted and part-stuccoed building of basalt coursed rubble with sandstone quoins to openings as seen on the north face. The two-level timber verandah has cast-iron frieze panels, bellied iron balustrade panels and a modified square head picket fence. The architraved upper level window has the distinctively early detail of half side-lights, with adjoining hung sashes over a lower panel. Decorative stucco elements include parapet scrolls, a cornice and unusual stylised brackets and rolled mouldings to the side wall faces, set against the stone work. How is it significant? Why is it significant? The house is one of the earliest in the area, the land here having been sold in the late 1850s. It provides an excellent example of the kind of buildings erected by the small-scale owner-builders that were common in this part of Melbourne in the 1850s and 1860s. Dean, the builder and occupier of this house, built several others in the area. The Residence at 64 Capel Street, West Melbourne, is of architectural significance as an example of domestic architecture displaying uncommon early details and cast iron pattern and as an unusual example of combined stone (basalt and freestone) and stucco work. History The block was prime building land, most of the area to the north of Victoria Street having already been developed since 1852. The Capel Street block was thus developed within a few years of sale. Joseph Dean first moved into Capel Street in 1859. His neighbours at the time were Netherwood’s two room brick house and W. Williams Victoria Smelting Works. |
Owners
From | To | Owner | More Info | Data Source |
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to date | Private | source: Hatcher Index | ||
1859 | Mr. John Downie, 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 | J. E. Cini | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1950 | 1960 | Leslie A. Blakey | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1945 | 1945 | Mrs. Elsie Hastings | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1935 | 1940 | Miss. Emily McKenzie | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1930 | 1930 | Mrs. Teresa Penny | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1925 | 1925 | Mrs. M. E. Gapper | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1920 | 1920 | Herbert L. Tuttleby | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1915 | 1915 | James Wemyss | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1905 | 1910 | John S. Duncan | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1900 | 1900 | John J. Waters | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1895 | 1895 | Mrs. Margaret Turner | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. | |
1890 | 1890 | Stewart Bell | source: Sands & McDougall directory, transcribed by Anne Cronin in 2020. |
Social History
1878. HYMAN.— On the 20th November, at her residence, 64 Capel street, West Melbourne, the wife of A. H. Hyman of a son.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article220443240
source: Weekly Times 1878
Context and Streetscape
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This property resides within the municipality of the City of Melbourne. We respectfully acknowledge it is on the traditional land of the Kulin Nation. |
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The controls listed below affect this property:
This information must be verified with the relevant planning or heritage authority. |
Streetscape |
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The streetscape can be characterised as a mix of Victorian and modern buildings. Eight of the original seventeen single-story Victorian terrace dwellings plus some double storey commercial buildings are on its western side, south of Victoria Street, while on the eastern side, the street retains sixteen of its original thirty-six, wider sized early Victorian, two storey terrace homes, as well as two story modern public housing townhouses. Crossing over Victoria Street to the north on the eastern side, nineteen of the original thirty-two equally fine examples of early two storey Victoria terrace dwellings can be seen, dispersed by a small number of modern two storey buildings. Unfortunately, all twenty-two of the original Victorian terrace dwellings on the western side from Victoria to Queensberry streets have all been demolished, replaced by taller modern commercial buildings that are out of character with the existing surrounding Victorian architecture of this once predominantly single and double storey residential streetscape. Heritage of note include two 2 storey terraces at 62 and 64, both have National Trust classifications and Heritage Victoria registrations. Two more include two single storey terraces dwellings at 81 and 83 that were designed by the distinguished Australian architect, Mr. George Raymond Johnson. |
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