Posts Tagged ‘1860s’
Callender House: 355 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. Brisbane, Queensland
Callender House: 355 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill. Brisbane, Queensland
This little pair of attached houses dates back to 1863 and was designed by the reknowned local architect Robert Smith Dods1.
Originally each house was comprised of five rooms and a kitchen.2 The building later became known as Callender House and had long been associated with members of the church.
3-21 Paternoster Row, Pyrmont. Sydney, New South Wales
Terrace Houses: 3-21 Paternoster Row, Pyrmont. Sydney, New South Wales
Pyrmont has some impressive long stretches of terrace houses. While the vast majority were built in Sydney’s Harris and Macarthur estates during the 1870s and 1880s with decorative iron lace, some earlier sandstone georgian working class terraces survive. The fact that this working class row of ten was built in brick as early as 1860 sets it apart.
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Specimen Cottage: 178-180 Hargreaves Street. Bendigo, Victoria
Specimen Cottage: 178-180 Hargreaves Street. Bendigo, Victoria
Specimen Cottage, the oldest terrace house in Bendigo is also reputed to be the oldest house and possibly oldest buildings in the city. The row of two sandstone ashlar cottages was built in two stages. The first single storey double fronted cottage was erected in 1856 by local stonemason James Brierley. The name and date are enscribed in stone above the doorway. In 1861 he extended it with a matching double storey cottage.
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Bodford Terrace: 21-27 Drummond Street, Carlton. Melbourne, Victoria
Bodford Terrace: 21-27 Drummond Street, Carlton. Melbourne, Victoria
Despite the name (along with the date of construction) appearing centrally on its parapet, confusion over the naming of this terrace parallels its sketchy history. Today this row of four classic double storey Victorian houses is recognised by the name “Bodford Terrace”, however even during its early years it was also referred to as “Bedford Terrace”, perhaps a case of mistaken identity. The origin of the name and its developer, most likely is obscure. What is known is that it is among Carlton’s earliest terraces, erected in 1868, predating the 1880s boom, however since its initial construction it has gone through signficant stages of appreciation and neglect.
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Princess Row: 190-198 Petrie Terrace. Brisbane, Queensland
Princess Row: 190-198 Petrie Terrace. Brisbane, Queensland
Located on the corner of Princess Street and Petrie Terrace, this row of four attached workers cottages on the fringe of the central business district was built in an era when Brisbane was still without public transport. Forming part of the historic Petrie Terrace group of terraces and cottages, its prominently steep gable roof is free of projecting party walls and each cottage is marked only by paired dormer windows and shared chimneys between each pair. This is probably the most rustic of the remaining working cottages with its corrugated iron roof clearly corroding. The addition of an interwar shopfront on the corner obscures one of the end terraces.
Alfred Terrace: 37-47 Kent Street, Millers Point. Sydney, New South Wales
Alfred Terrace: 37-47 Kent Street, Millers Point. Sydney, New South Wales
Alfred Terrace (or Alfred’s Terrace) is a row of six double storey (with additional basement level) Georgian style sandstone block terraces forming part of a very intact early Victorian streetscape on Sydney’s Kent Street.
Alfred’s Terrace was built between 1868 and 1870 for Sir George Wigram Allen prominent Sydney solicitor and politician.1
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Pembroke Terrace: 91-101 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills. Sydney, New South Wales
Pembroke Terrace: 91-101 Buckingham Street, Surry Hills. Sydney, New South Wales
Pembroke Terrace is a row of six Georgian style sandstone terraced houses was built around 1860 and were among the first wave of terraced housing in Surry Hills.
Originally part of a row of 21 houses completed in 1871 most of which has since been demolished, clear photographs of the terrace soon after its completion are some of the best preserved images of the nature of early speculative development in Sydney1 2, even illustrate the use of cast iron bootscrapers and early rainwater systems and attracted a mix of middle class and working class occupants.3
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