Melbourne Heritage Watch

Royal Freemason’s Colbran Lodge Demolished

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:05 +0000

Colbran Lodge – 45 Moubray Street Melbourne near Punt Road a classical 1920s former Freemasons home and its gracious gardens has been demolished The following application was lodged with City of Melbourne on 4th March 2010. Alterations and additions to an existing nursing home, including demolition, buildings and works and reduction of car parking requirements The very next [...]

Do something about Flinders Street Station for its 100th

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:58:39 +0000

That is the call from several key citizens in light of the landmark’s low key 100th birthday celebrations. First shock jock Derryn Hinch, then the National Trust have and the mainstream media have come to the party with a campaign to revive Flinders Street Station including to restore the ballroom and complete the building based on [...]

Historic Little Lonsdale slum houses to be demolished

admin — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:34:03 +0000

A gem of history is about to be demolished on Little Lonsdale Street. Terraces dating back to the goldrush are part of an entire streetscape which is not heritage listed including the 1888 Letrim Hotel and set to be demolished. According to an article in The Age, the National Trust is lobbying the City of Melbourne to [...]

Sham Windsor Hotel Consultation Shock

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:42:03 +0000

Shock news of plans for a sham consultation for the government to stop the Windsor Hotel development to gain votes has been reported by the Herald Sun. The news certainly comes as a suprise to the National Trust, who were under the belief that their campaign was a genuine part of democratic process. The leaked [...]

Taking a Long Break …

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:42:47 +0000

Melbourne Heritage Watch is taking a break for some soul searching. When it will be back I can’t say. Many thanks to our avid readers.

Lonsdale House demolition has begun

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:45:10 +0000

The complete demolition of Lonsdale House begins this weekend with the closure of Caledonian Lane and will take place over the next couple of weeks. George Lekakis of the Herald Sun ran a story this week on the fate of the Melbourne landmark this week – “Melbourne’s heritage building Lonsdale House lost to wrecker’s ball“. Although [...]

Park Orchards Chalet survives redevelopment plans

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:54:58 +0000

It seems that the historic 1928 Spanish Mission revival architecture of the Park Orchards Chalet will live to see another day after Manningham City Council rejected a redevelopment plan to demolish most of it and replace it with a nursing home. The large former home, located in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs was used by the [...]

North Melbourne landmark deco hotel being demolished

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:18:23 +0000

2010 is not off to a great start for appreciators of Melbourne’s art deco heritage, with the heritage listed art deco hotel in North Melbourne currently called the “Red Back” (formerly the Royal) currently being completely demolished to make way for student accomodation. RealestateSource.com.au reported recently that the developer requested a permit upon purchasing the [...]

Heritage tragedy at “The Terricks”, Hawthorn

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:31:31 +0000

The Leader has another story about Hawthorn’s heritage character being compromised. This time, the redevelopment of the Victorian mansion “The Terricks” described as a tragedy by Hawthorn historian Gwen McWilliam. The Terricks, a classically designed “Marvellous Melbourne” mansion dates to 1882 and was designed by one of Melbourne’s most significant firms Reed and Barnes. Despite [...]

Not a great time to be tudorbethan

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:46:34 +0000

Its been a bad day for tudor revival buildings. Just read that the state government is compulsorily carving up a historic property Westerfield’s to build a new freeway… The 1929 house it seems was saved through a heritage listing. On Mount Dandenong a suburb that’s character is defined by the Tudor Revival movement, a double storey interwar [...]