Spotted on realestatesource.com.au, usually pretty reliable with the insider tip-offs, there is a nomination pending for Dimmey’s at 140 Swan Street Richmond (actually Cremorne) to be added to the Victorian Heritage Register.
The aim would be to protect the landmark clock tower and its distinctive ball of the 1890s department store from inappropriate development.
The article seems [...]
12 Grey Street sits right in the heart of one of St Kilda’s most sensitive heritage areas. The site is right next door to the George Hotel, arguably St Kilda’s most iconic non-foreshore building and also most neglected landmark. The corner of Grey and Fitzroy Streets is a predominantly Victorian era streetscape is one of [...]
The Richmond Club hotel, a historic 1920s hotel in an Egyptian columned Beaux Arts style on Swan Street in Richmond was gutted on the 17th November at 4am.
It is fortunate that the facade appears to have been spared from the devastation of the blaze.
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A fire broke out yesterday morning
at the Victoria Hotel in Albert Park.
I happened to be nearby and saw the smoke billowing from the building. I had grave fears that the whole heritage registered building might go up because there were a dozen fire crews and for ages they couldn’t work out where it was coming [...]
