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Wellington. NSW. Embellishments on the 1912 built Courthouse. Sandstone carving of GR for George Fifth 1910 to 1936.
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Echuca. The Masonic Temple built in 1907.
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Echuca. Old advertising on the side of the Palace Hotel. Note fancy brick work on roof line. Built 1876. Architect William Vahland.
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Molong. NSW. 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 corn
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Echuca. The Shamrock Hotel. Lower floor built in classical style 1870. Upper Edwardian floor with French roof added around 1895.
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Junee. Monte Cristo House was built in 1884 for C Crawley. Fine cast iron lacework of Australian ferns on the veranda. Bricks were baked on the property.
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Maitland. Courthouse built in red brick with stone trims. Both Italianate and Federation architectural features. Designed by government architect Walter Liberty Vernon and completed in 1896.
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Molong. Pioneer Bakery. Next to the Post Office. Another fine old late 19th century shop and residence. Now the Pioneer Bakery. Built around 1895 to 1900.
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Echuca. Turn of the 20th century building in High Street. Now the Curry Club.
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Young. The first Methodist Church was built in 1865. This Arts and Cafts Church was built in 1909.White plaster banding divides up the facade.
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Balcony With Iron lacework
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Lockhart. In the Riverina. The town that sells itself as the wide veranda town. Most of the main street shops date from the 1900 to 1910 period.
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Kensington Gardens. Carlshurst house built in 1883 for land agent, land broker and accountant Charles August Reinecke. The entrance gates.
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Kensington Gardens. Carlshurst house built in 1883 for land agent, land broker and accountant Charles August Reinecke. This is the northern facade and the main entrance.
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Tumut. The beautiful Anglican church designed by Edmund Blacket. Completed 1878. Dark bricks used to create patterns on the facade.
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Casterton Victoria. The Catholic Church overlooking the Glenelg River.It was built in 1886.
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Minyip. The Magestic Hotel built in 1906. Fine caste iron lacework on the balcony. Used in the Australian TV Series the Flying Doctors.
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Narromine. The Anglican Church. Foundation stone 1929. Opened 1933.
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Childers. A sugar train engine taking sugar cane to the Isis Sugar Mill across the main road into Childers.
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Tatura. Victoria. The Romanesque style Catholic Church. Built 1912.
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Young. The Catholic Church built in local granite in 1874 with slate roof tiles. A flat roofed granite addition to the nave was made in 1934.
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Molong. The former state Molong School. Built in 1879.
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Elegant Footpath
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Molong. The old Cobb and Co Coach station with remnants of stables behind it. Built around 1875. It contains the Bicentennial Embroidered Screen.
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Maryborough. The former Australian Joint Stock Bank erected 1882. Author of Mary Poppins P L Travers was born inside in 1899. Soon to become an interpretive centre on Travers.
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Hamilton Victoria. The old 1866 nave of the Catholic Church mainly has information about Saint Mary Mackillop.
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Echuca. One of the iron spans of the first 1878 bridge across the River Murray to Moama in NSW.
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Wellington. NSW. Built as Union Bank in 1921. Note coat of arms in cartouche above doorway on edge of laneway. Note weird shaped balcony above doorway. Terracotta roof tiles. Later ANZ bank till 1900s.
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Melbourne. Moonee Ponds. Penleigh House built around 1890. During World War I it became Penleigh Ladies College. Now Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School.
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lacework leaf
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Wellington. The Bank of New South Wales in Nanima Street. Built in 1922. Some classical features. The roof balustrade. Shields on columns.
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Tatura. The old Courthouse built in 1891.
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Yass. Fine caste iron lacework on the veranda of the Australian Joint Stock Bank erected in 1886. Now the Westpac.
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Parkes. Carved detail in stone on the facade of the 1896 built Parkes Courthouse. Architect was Walter Vernon.
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Hamilton Victoria. The Salvation Army citadel.
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Parkes. This second Courthouse designed by colonial government architect Walter Vernon was built in 1896. Like many courthouses it has a clerestroy window in the roof to let in light.
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Spires and Shadows
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Dubbo. The fine sandstone Catholic Church. Completed in 1874 in sandstone. Transepts added 1909. Unusual steeple. Architect Edward Gell of Bathurst.
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Lockhart NSW. The unusual Anglican Church with a wooden nave and a red brick chancel. The wooden nave was probably erected around 1900 and the chancel was added around 1920.
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Young. The first Courthouse built in 1861. This grand Greek temple ediface opened in 1886 and cost 12,000 pounds. Given to Education Dept in 1924. Became senior school in 1935. With additions opened Young High School in 1947
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Molong. Opposite the old Anglican Church up the hill is a pair of two storey terraces. Built around 1890.
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Albury. View of the Main Street of Albury from the War Memorial tower.
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Narromine. The 1916 built Catholic Convent.
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Brown Lacework
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Molong. Connelly Bros grocery store. Old advertising on shop windows for Kinkara tea and Mothers Choice flour.
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Tarndwarncoort. Near Colac. Veranda lacework decoration and the two storey basalt homestead of 1877.
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Albury. English Elms planted in the Botanic Gardens here in 1877.
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Young. The old state school which opened in 1883. It is now the Lambing Flat Museum. The school has decorative and unusual roof ventilators. Old road mileage posts to Yass in front.
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Greta. The red brick Courthouse built in 1890 with arched windows, a slate roof and upper windows to let light into the court room. It is now used as a community centre.
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Greta NSW. The Tattersalls Hotel. The original hotel was timber but this newer two storey arched window hotel was built in 1910.
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Mitcham. Hawthorn. Willowbrook house. Good example of a two storey Italianate house. Built 1883 for Pustkuchen. On the banks of Brownhill Creek.
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Wellington. Old public hall with roof ventilators. Early 20th century with curvaceous pediment.
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Queenscliffe. Bellarine Peninsula. The Anglican church built in 1864. Painted stucco. The tower was added in 1878. Double stained glass windows.
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Tatura. The Victory Hall added to the 1881built Institute after World War One in 1925.
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Parkes NSW. A reconstructed copy of Moat Hall in Coventry England where Sir Henry Parkes was born.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town. A track side view of the Kapunda Railway station which was completed in 1860. It closed in the 1980s and is now a residence.
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Parkes. Town statue of its name sake Sir Henry Parkes who was the Father of Federation in Australia. Behind is the 1925 heritage listed National Australia Bank now the NAB.
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Tumut. The Presbyterian Church built in 1878. The first Presbyterian church was built elsewhere in Tumut in 1856. This 1878 church is now the Uniting Church.
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Goolwa Railway Station. The first station was near the rotunda in the middle of town from around 1853. This station was erected on the wharf around 1884 when steam trains began operating thourgh to Adelaide. Steamranger tourist trains operated from here.
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Goolwa. The 1861 Wesleyan Methodist Church now a Uniting Church. The transepts were added in 1881.
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