106-108 Miller Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme11/01/1985
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106-108 Miller Street, West Melbourne
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11/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 106599
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Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1861)Robert Finlay commissioned builder, William Little of Barkly Street to erect a 'cottage' at Miller Street in 1861. He occupied what was valued as a stone house with four rooms on land 30 x 100 feet. The description and occupancy varied little in the next forty years. During that period Finlay's occupation is unclear. A Robert Finlay was a silversmith on the South Bank of the Yarra River in the 1880s and, later, a shipwright, but this Robert Finlay appeared to live in South Melbourne. The vantage point of the house, overlooking the bay, may be related. In electoral rolls of c1900, Finlay is described as a 'gentleman' or 'independent means'. He lived there with Elspeth (his wife?) and Bessie (his daughter?) who was a seamstress.Ann C O'Brien, who, lived of 40 Little Lonsdale Street in c 1900, owned the house from the early 1900s until the Victorian Iron Rolling Co Pty's tenure of the early 1920s. By then the house was five rooms and the and 33 x 111 feet, later owner-occupiers were Herbert James and Edwards Allan Ng Tye-din, fruiterers,Simply elevated, this stone house represents the Colonial Georgian style continued here from British practice, the nature of the stone lending local content. It is parapeted, symmetrical and faced with basalt masonry with dressed quoins, plinth and sills. The side-walls are coursed rubble.A simply detailed stone house which is both early for its locality and representative of a part of the locality's early history i.e. Stone quarrying along the Moonee Ponds and Maribyrnong River. Given its construction date of 1861, it is part of a small group of stone parapeted detached houses built during this decade in the state, the parapeted form being more demanding to construct and more common in commercial stone buildings.
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