Archive for the ‘Demolished’ Category

Image courtesy of City of Sydney Archives, CRS 000275

Terrace Houses: 3-9 Crown Street, Woolloomooloo

This row of very tall triple storey terraces was a sad loss to Sydney, although many like it still do remain in the inner suburbs.  Read more... (217 words, 7 images, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Courtesy of Fitzroy Local History Photograph Collection

Granite Terrace: 1-9 Gertrude Street. Fitzroy, Victoria.

Granite Terrace (pictured here in 1958 a hundred years after its construction in 1858) is one of those buildings for which I wish I had a time machine to plead with developers not to demolish.  Armed with the knowledge of what was there before it is a painful experience to see what is there today.  Granite Terrace, a three storey Regency style terrace flanked another famous Melbourne terrace completed the same year – Royal Terrace.  Read more... (403 words, 8 images, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Rochester Terrace, 320-334 Jones St in 1919. (used with permission. City of Sydney Archives, CRS 51/752)

Known as Rochester Terrace, this row of eight terrace houses built in 1879 and fronting Jones Street was typical of the rows of working class terraces homes built in Ultimo during late 1800s.  Erected before new building codes were introduced, it’s long gable corrugated iron roof is notably without projecting party walls and only changes pitch slightly on the verandah balconies.  Built in brick on a sandstone base it featured plain chimneys and party walls, iron lacework fringe, brackets and balcony and a wooden picket fence.  Read more... (157 words, 7 images, estimated 38 secs reading time)

Bridget Goggs Terrace: Brisbane Street, Ipswich. Queensland. Image from the State Library of Queensland

Built in 1858 by Matthew Goggs, this row of five single storey brick terraces with attic level is one of the few built in a Queensland provincial city.  The photo was taken just prior to its demolition in 1936, however even then the row was showing its age.  In the 1860s Ipswich, a booming mining town, rivaled penal Brisbane in terms of importance and many grand homes and terraces anticipated its further growth.  However history shows that Brisbane became the colony’s capital, quickly outgrew and absorbed Ipswich in its rapidly expanding western suburbs.  Read more... (220 words, 7 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)

Byrne Terrace. Wickham Terrace, Brisbane. Photo from the State Library of Queensland

Byrne Terrace was a row of five double storey terraces on Wickham Terrace in Brisbane.  Built around 1886 just before the subdivision act which effectively stopped further terrace development, this row of houses overlooked the growing city and its river.  Byrne terrace was built for the wealthy and was occupied by businessmen, doctors and medical professionals some of who used the houses as consulting rooms.

Before the construction of terraces houses, Wickham Terrace was noted for its handsome Victorian villas, some of which still exist.  However over the next couple of decades Brisbane’s wealthy moved to new estates in suburbs such as Ascot, Hamilton and Indooroopilly.  Read more... (368 words, 7 images, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)