lacework

lace curtain
by jenny downing

Junee. Monte Cristo House built in 1884 for Christopher Crawley. Fine cast iron lacework of Australian ferns on the veranda. Bricks were baked on the property. Cast iron fountain in the front garden. Known as a haunted house.
by denisbin

Echuca. The Red Gum arch erected for the visit of the Victorian Governor in 1884.
by denisbin

THE SNOW MAN
by quinet

Crowds in Bourbon Street New Orleans
by denisbin

Dubbo. This double storey bank with cast iron veranda posts was built as the Bank of New South Wales in 1876.
by denisbin

Maryborough. Eskdale House in Pallas Street. Built in red bricks as a two storey mansion with French windows onto the verandas in 1864. Also has cast iron lacework. Now being restored.
by denisbin

Maitland. NSW This Anglican Vicarage was built after the church in 1881. It is in the then popular Italianate style with bay windows, slate roof etc..
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Albury. St David's Presbyterian Church. Built in 1905. Now a Uniting Church.
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Albury. Morning light on the Anglican Church. Part of it dates from 1857.
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Balaklava. Dunns Bridge across the River Wakefield. This was the crossing used by bullock teams from Burra copper mine in 1849. This steel bridge is late 19th century.
by denisbin

Classic Adelaide Bluestone
by mikecogh

Houses on High Lacework
by Cindy Funk

Molong. St Johns Anglican Church. Built in brick 1905 with terracotta roof tiles and large rose window in gable
by denisbin

Albury. The tower and entrance to the red brick Presbyterian Church built in 1905. Became a Uniting Church in 1977.
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Albury. The World War One War memorial in beautiful Art Deco style.
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Adelaide. Kilkenny. The derelict site of the former Forwood Down foundry from 1956 to 1966 when they merged with Perry Engineering who took it over.Finally Biancos cement factory 1996 to 2009.
by denisbin

Queenscliffe Railway Station. Built in 1881 after the railway from Geelong reached the town in 1879. Now the start of the Bellarine Peninsula Railway trips.
by denisbin

Time's lacework
by fdecomite

Balaklava. Grand house from around 1900. Features indicating this include lace work on venanda, gables on veranda, two front entrances, side veranda, wood work on gables etc
by denisbin

Warracknabeal. The Victorian State Savings Bank. Built in 1909 as a single storey bank. Upper floor added in 1921. Has been the Historical Society building since 1969.
by denisbin

Redhill on the Broughton River. The old general store built in 1874.
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arabesque
by jenny downing

Echuca. St Andrews Presbyterian Church built 1901. Now Uniting. Architect E Castles.Turreted tower and spire, rose garden interesting street facing gable. .
by denisbin

Gawler. Old 19th century general store and residence from the 1860s still in use.
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Wellington. NSW. Warne Street panorma with 1883 former Bank of New South Wales and the square tower of the Catholic Church built bewteen 1863 and 1875.
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Salter Springs. SA. Near Rhynie. The ruins of the old village Post Office. Bult in the 1860s or 1870s.
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Young. Young Railway Station. The railway reached Young from Harden in 1885 when the railway station was built. Now it houses the Information Centre.
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Molong. A row of two story buildings in the Main Street. All built between 1880 and the late 1890s.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town from 1842 to 1878. One of many stone villa houses from the 1880s with wonderful cast iron lace work on the veranda cast in the Hawke Foundry of Kapunda.
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Kapunda. The rose window of St Rose Catholic church. It was built in 1938 but the first catholic Church was built nearby at Koonunga in 1850. First Catholic Church in Kapunda was built 1862 demolished 1946.
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Echuca. Victoria. One of the iron spans of the first 1878 bridge across the River Murray to Moama in NSW.
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Melbourne. The Catholic Church in Essendon.
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Kapunda. Osborne House built for store keeper Andrew Thomson. Thomson's store is now the information centre in the main street. Its Gothic features date it to 1862 when it was built.
by denisbin

Greta. The timber framed two storey Greta Post Office is now the bakery. It has fine cast iron lacework balconies. Built in 1893.
by denisbin

Doyle Spiral after Circle inversion (comes to life)
by fdecomite

Hamilton. Victoria. The Anglican Rectory next to the Co Cathedral. Built in 1898.
by denisbin

Fine example of an Australian hotel with verandas and wrought iron lace work. Mount Gambier Hotel South Australia.
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Maryborough. The city military museum was originally a warehouse operated by J.E.Brown. It was built in 1879 but the firm was established in 1857.
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Molong. NSW. The old railway station built in 1886 is now the town library but it is stiil on a main line railway.
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Mullumbimby. The old Commercial Hotel. Two storey wooden hotel with cast iron lacework on the upper veranda. Built after 1890.
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Echuca. Millewa Chambers. Built 1878 as a bond store. Note urns and symmetry of facade.
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Molong. Commonwealth Bank. Mediterranean Art Deco style. Built in 1930 by architect E Henderson. Many Art Deco traits including barley twist columns, fan shells over windows, roof parapet with square in fills, curved corner entrance e
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Albury. Fantastic Art Deco style home built in 1949 but with 1950s style as well. A classic at 607 Lindsay Avenue.
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Birdwood Primary School. The state school opened in 1878 cross the street. This bulding was the former home of the local four mill owner Pflaum of German background. Note excellent caste iron lacework. Pflaum house built 1896. Part of school complex lat
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Lacework 0706
by mliu92

Hamilton. Fleetwood House. Built in 1925 for a local businessman. California bungalow style with pebble veranda post supports and wood work on gables etc.
by denisbin

Melbourne. Moonee Ponds. Penleigh House built around 1890. During World War One became Penleigh Ladies College. Now Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School.
by denisbin

Castlemaine. Victoria. Old gold mining town from 1851. The classical tower style Post Office. building .Completed 1874.
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Lacework and Snow
by blachswan

Junee. The romanesque style Catholic church with one high bell tower and another lower tower. Built in 1929.
by denisbin

splash lacework
by pesbo

Port Wakefield. Pareora homestead. Built by Edmund Bowman in the 1850s.Leasehold run taken out in 1845. The west facing veranda overlooking the lagoon when it is full.
by denisbin

Maitland. NSW. Cohens warehouse built 1865 in Italianate style. Architect John Horbury Hunt. Different carved gargoyles above every window. Was 3 storeys high till 1970 fire destroyed upper two floors.
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Balaklava. Dunns Bridge across the River Wakefield. This was the crossing used by bullock teams from Burra copper mine in 1849. This steel bridge is late 19th century after the town was established in 1871..
by denisbin

Albury. Giant seed pods from a palm in the Albury Botanic Gardens.
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Queenscliffe on Port Phillip Bay. The beach, the pier and the Sorrento ferry.
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Melbourne. Penleigh House built around 1890. During the first World War it became Penleigh Ladies College. Now Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School.
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Queenscliffe on the Bellarine Peninsula. The Anglican parish hall. Work commenced in 1870 but was not finished until 1902.
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Salter Springs. SA. Farmer Robert Smyth eventually built a grand home with bay windows (1879) and planted two Moreton Bay Figs in the garden. Monte Flora House has Kapunda cast iron lacework
by denisbin