Romolo, 469 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme21 Jan 1985
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Romolo, 469 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
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21 Jan 1985
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BIF-NORTH 109752
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Grading as at 1985 : DPeriod : Early Victorian 1860Grantee : J Bagley 1858No. 469 Victoria Street, the older of these two houses was built in 1860, for John Christopher Bagley, a clerk in the Public Lands Department and the grantee of the allotment. He continued to live there for over twenty years, when George Bagley, a Queensberry Street chemist and presumably his son, assumed ownership. [Victoria and its Metropolis Vol 2 p 664] The Swanson family had a continuous association with 467 Victoria Street from Thomas Swanson, its first owner in 1868 to George Swanson, a plumber of Spencer Street, who was there until after 1895. George Swanson applied as the owner builder to construct 467 in April 1868 : described as a six room bluestone house [Melbourne Building Permit Applications 2598/1868]George Bagley conducted his chemist shop at the corner of Abbotsford and Queensberry Streets from 1882 after an apprenticeship with W F D'arcy Irvine and Messrs Ogg and Co allowed him to start his own enterprise in 1876 [Victoria and its Metropolis Vol 2 p 664]469 is a rock face basalt masonry house of two-storeys with a parapetted roof line and remnants of a two-level timber verandah. 467 is a hipped iron roof, two-storey rock face, quoined basalt masonry building also with remnants of a verandah. Notable features include verandah roof and structure; multi-pane windows.
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