Vanduara Terrace, 451-459 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18/1/1985
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Vanduara Terrace, 451-459 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEVANDUARA TERRACE, ROW HOUSES,451-9 QUEENSBERRY STREET, NORTH MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985: BPeriod : Mid Victorian (1885)Grantee : Allison and Knight 1852History- 1885 was the date of construction of these row houses for John McGibbon who owned them until after 1894, occupying 453 in 1885. Most of the other tenants were a mixture of the professions and shopkeepers, i.e. Samuel Denny, draper, Joseph Hams, agent and Charles G.Reed, dentist.John McGibbon was the first Hotham postmaster and his stationery and book-selling business was the first in the area. He was a great supporter of the Presbyterian Church.Description- A two-storey, stepped-parapet row of four houses of stuccoed brick with a cast-iron verandah and balcony. An arched central entablature flanked by scrolls, urns and minor piers to verandah walls, and bracketed mouldings to the verandah wall-face, are the ornament. Iron fences, guilloche pattern iron balustrading and panelled friezes provide further decoration. Six-panel doors, with top and side lights, side-lit lower windows, and coloured glass verandah end-wall windows are typical opening types for the row. Unusual details include the multi-stepped parapet and the verandah wall piers.Integrity - Generally original except for some parapet urns: the differing paint colours disrupt the row's unity.Streetscape - Prominent corner beginning to an important residential streetscape between Leveson and Chetwynd StreetsSignificance- Architecturally, a typical row for the period, but with unusual detailing and generally in original condition. It is a major part of an important streetscape: of high regional importance. Historically, associated with prominent North Melbourne personalities as both owners and lessees; of local importance.Recommendations - Repaint in original or typical colours; replace urns.consider zoning provisions to preserve original use and form i.e. rezone to Residentia1 A.References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)1. (a ) RB 1885-86. 176-9;(b) R8 1893- 94, 175-8( c) RS 1885, 1782. Mattingley, "The Early History of North Melbourne" Victorian Historical Magazine February 1917 p 85___________________________RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2025.NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)1888https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66149227THE NORTH MELBOURNE POST OFFICETO THE EDITOR.--Sir,-The present system of management in connection with our local post office is extremely unbusinesslike and seems to be conducted on a regular go-as-you-please system. People are kept waiting a needlessly long time at both the stamp delivery and telegram windows, while the sound of children racing all over the office where the officials are at work may be distinctly heard. The lamp under the portico is broken and when it was entire it was often left unlighted and by a strange anomaly remained (when it was lighted) flaring away till 10 or 11 in the forenoon. I certainly think the department should send a vigilant inspector round to the different post offices more frequently and authorize him to note the relations existing between the public and the officials and postmaster. Residents of North Melbourne are complaining bitterly of the different state of affairs existing in the North Melbourne office now as compared with the regime of the late Mr. McGibbon and it is to be hoped a change will speedily take effect.I am etc.Pro Bone Publico.___________________________Ancestry.comTwo Johns: John MacgibbonBirth 17 August 1816 • Paisley, Renfrew, ScotlandDeath 05 June 1886 • Hotham East, Victoria, Australia andJohn Jnr MacGibbon and his twin brother John were born on 1 November 1848 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, their father, John, was 32, and their mother, Jean, was 28. He married Matilda Jane McLellan in 1875 in Victoria. He died on 1 April 1939 at the age of 90.
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