ABPL90089 AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE. the foundation of Melbourne

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1 ABPL90089 AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE the foundation of Melbourne

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3 the Port Phillip District

4 Port Phillip Bay, redrawn from Grimes s chart, 1803 Historical Records of New South Wales

5 Batman's map of Dutigalla and Port Phillip Bay, 1835, redrawn after Statham, Capital Cities, p 209

6 Mitchell's route, and pastoral expansion Powell, Public Lands of Australia Felix, p 5

7 Russell s Melbourne

8 Robert Russell's survey of the site of Melbourne, 1837 MUAS 1,507

9 Russell's survey, detail Adams, Liardet's water-colours, p 11

10 Hoddle and the Darling Regulations

11 standard section, A, under Darling's regulations of 1829; possible variation B; and version used in Melbourne, C D N Jeans, 'Town Planning in New South Wales ', JAPI, IV, 4 (October 1965), p 192

12 (a) Town reserves are situated on rivers. (b) Town reserves are typically 3 x 1 miles, and within them only small allotments are released for houses, shops &c and room provided for future expansion. (c) Within the town reserve reservations made for public buildings and other purposes. (d) The town layout is on a rectangular grid, but adjusted to suit the topography. (e) The dimensions of allotments and streets are as provided by the Darling regulations. (f) There are incentives or requirements to encourage substantial building on town lots and to discourage speculation in land [easy when it was a condition of a lease, but difficult when the land has been sold freehold]. (g) Outside the town reserve, river frontages are shared in long strip allotments. (h) The surveying of rural land is generally into sections of one square mile, on a north-south, east-west orientation.

13 Hoddle's plan showing the establishment of the town reserve, completed 25 March Map M/8 Sydney Daley, South Melbourne, facing p 7

14 Warrnambool: plan showing town land, reserves, and NSEW subdivision outside Powell, Public Lands of Australia Felix

15 Subdivision patterns, eastern volcanic plains Nalangil, Yeo, Mortlake, Camperdown, Colac, 1850 Powell, Public Lands of Australia Felix, p 43

16 the quarter acre block

17 government subdivision patterns Miles Lewis

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19 government subdivision patterns Miles Lewis

20 'Plan of the township on the Violet Creek' [?Violet town], surveyed September 1838 Historical Records of Victoria, V, p 247

21 Hoddle's plan of Geelong, March 1838 Historical Records of Victoria, V, p 130

22 Hoddle's plan of Geelong, November 1838

23 Hoddle's plan of South Melbourne, 28 March 1839 L J Harrigan, Victorian Railways to '62 (Melbourne 1962), p 3

24 Hoddle's plan of Melbourne and East Melbourne, from 1839 (added to a map of 1837) Winston Burchett, East Melbourne (Melbourne 1978), p 5

25 Hoddle's plan of Melbourne and East Melbourne, detail. Burchett, East Melbourne, p 6

26 East Melbourne as subdivided in 1848 Burchett, East Melbourne, p 7

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28 government subdivision patterns Miles Lewis

29 the City of Zion

30 'Plat of the City of Zion' by Joseph Smith, 1833 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, Historical Department

31 'Plat of the City of Zion', redrawn R M Graham, 'The Mormon Cultural Landscape at Stirling Agricultural Village, Alberta', APT Bulletin, XXXII, 2-3 (2001), p 48

32 Williamstown

33 detail of a map of 1870, showing Williamstown MUAS 1,497

34 Williamstown Evans, Port of Many Prows, p 145

35 town development

36 Liardet's view of the Falls, with a house on the south side built by Russell or Darke late in 1836 Adams, Liardet's water-colours, no 17

37 Liardet's view of the Landing Place and Market Reserve in 1839 Adams, Liardet's water-colours, no 5

38 Liardet's view of Batman's house Adams, Liardet's water-colours, no 3

39 plan of Batman's buildings, off Spencer Street Historical Records of Victoria, III, p 22

40 Batman's Hill model by George Tibbits

41 land occupied by Batman Historical Records of Victoria, III, p 23

42 view of government and other buildings as in 1836, by Russell, from a sketch dated November 1836 Historical Records of Victoria, III, facing p 56

43 land sales in Central Melbourne Miles Lewis

44 reconstructed ærial view of Melbourne in 1838 by Clarence Woodhouse, 1888 The Phenomenal City (SLV catalogue, Melbourne 1984), centre spread

45 Collins Street East in 1838, by Samuel Jackson Centenary Celebrations Council, Historical Sub-Committee, Victoria, the First Century: an Historical Survey (Melbourne 1934, p 113

46 'Collins Street East, 1841' by J C R W Historical Records of Victoria, III, facing p 257

47 the suburbs

48 Hoddle's map of surveyed lands north of Melbourne, 1837 [?1838] Port Phillip 104 photographic print held at MUAS

49 Hoddle's map of sections sold near Melbourne, 12 September 1838 (note lands already sold within the Parish of Jika Jika are not indicated) Historical Records of Victoria, VI, p 384

50 Warringal village from the plan by S A Perry, Deputy Surveyor-General, 1838 from a plan of 1858 Donald Garden, Heidelberg, pp 63, 67

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