Architecture, Building and Planning - Theses
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ItemNorth Carlton and the Outer Circle Railway( 1966)The aim of this essay is to make a study of the Royal Park to Clifton Hill railway and to assess any influence the line had on North Carlton.
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ItemHousing rehabilitation: 2 areas in Carlton, case study( 1973-11)A concept of measuring ‘significant events’ was used to rate the progress of rehabilitation activity. The rehabilitation of a house was said to be by a series of separate decisions by individual owners to gradually or in one or two major stages improve the condition of the house. Each decision which raises the standard of the house was called a ‘significant event’. Typical events measured were new kitchen, internal bathroom, rewiring the house etc. All data recorded from the various authorities was related to these significant events. When the houses were inspected a score was given for each of the significant events and the rehabilitation rating determined by the total score for that property. To test the reliability of the Rehabilitation Indicators used in this study the results have been expressed as two separate percentages. In the first, the number of successful indications by each of the Rehabilitation Indicators is expressed as a percentage of the total number of houses in each Rehabilitation Rating. In the second, I have expressed the total number of houses correctly indicated by that Rehabilitation Indicator as either of full, partial or in progress Rehabilitation Rating as a percentage of the total number of houses indicated by that same data source. The most reliable Rehabilitation Indicator would be one that scores the highest in both of these two percentage calculations. The result of the study is that no one Rehabilitation Indicator is a reliable indicator of rehabilitation activity. Preliminary examination of a grouping of two or more Indicators has shown similar results. However, the complexity of analysing results for different groupings of Indicators has prevented any firm conclusions to be reached at this stage. For the two areas selected in Carlton, an analysis of rehabilitation activity has produced a few tentative conclusions. Area B in Carlton because of the continuous threat of Housing Commission acquisition during the 1960’s has a smaller percentage of houses rehabilitated. Canning Street in Area A has shown a fairly high rehabilitation activity with 24.2% of houses given a full Rehabilitation Rating and 15.2% given a partial Rehabilitation Rating while Sutton/Earl Streets in the same area shows a high 21% of houses in the process of being rehabilitated. This result is particularly interesting because Sutton/Earl Streets contain mostly small houses on small lots which in 1937 the Housing Investigation and Slum Abolition Board had called ‘slum’ housing (See Section 3.02). There is no preference for particular property types. Larger houses were initially popular but at the time of the study a large number of smaller houses were in the process of being renovated. A trend which has not shown itself fully in the results is an increased number of ‘cosmetic’ renovations to tenanted houses. This usually involves painting the whole house out (white) with white or similar trendy exterior colour, fitting a H.W.S. and clearing up the backyard, perhaps demolishing a few sheds at the same time. These properties can then earn significantly higher rents to make the ‘cosmetic’ renovation very profitable to the owner. Other conclusions are shown in more detail in the Report.
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ItemTerrace house 174 - 182 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, Victoria( 1968)The aim of this thesis is to first capture the life and history of a block of Terrace House 174 - 182 Nicholson St, Fitzroy, Victoria, so as to form part of the record for future historians dealing with Terrace-Houses in Victoria. In relation to documenting the history of this block of Terrace-Houses, I have made it possible with the help of the Titles Office, Lands Department, Rates Office in Fitzroy Town Hall and the Melbourne Directory. My second intention is to discuss its significance physically in relation to its planning and style.
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ItemAn historical survey: undertakers and cemeteries in the Carlton area( 1967-09)Research for this thesis was made particularly difficult by the almost complete lack of authenticated information. Early Melbourne directories, themselves either incomplete or challengeable did give some indication to the names and number of early funeral directors - or undertakers, as they were known then. Facts, or statements as close to fact as possible, have had to be cross-referenced through a series of tape-recorded interviews. To add to research difficulty, a surprisingly large number of Funeral Directors refused to speak in any way, either historically or specifically, about their trade. Even those Directors who would speak freely admitted that all old records have been destroyed; particularly Sleight’s and J.D. Lewis, two of the oldest establishments close to Carlton. It has been found that few Undertakers had their headquarters (only branches) in Carlton, and in an attempt to gain their history in depth, Undertakers in the suburbs approximate to Carlton have been studied. (For complete synopsis open document)
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ItemThe Methodist church in Carlton( 1966)In writing this essay, I have attempted to trace the building activity of the Methodist Church in Carlton.
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ItemHistory from 1830-1900 of the area of land bounded by Moor, Napier, St. David and Young streets in the city of Fitzroy( 1968)The area of land bounded by Moor, Napier, St. David, Young Streets, was chosen, as the topic of this essay, because it is typical of the Fitzroy area. Thus through the study of this small area of land, one can get a general insight into the architectural history of the Fitzroy area. A second reason for its study, is that this area has been purchased by the Housing Commission of Victoria, and by industry and is to be demolished.
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ItemHotels in Fitzroy up to 1906( 1971)The essay begins with a general introduction to the liquor traffic of the early Melbourne community. It then focuses on Fitzroy where the relationship between the developing Fitzroy district and the geographical location of the hotels is discussed. Hotels and the Temperance groups always seem to run concurrently and a report on the role of these groups in Fitzroy and their efforts to limit the number of hotels in the area naturally follows. This Licensed Victuallers versus Teetotallers struggle led to strong Government action resulting in the setting up of the Licensing Reduction Board in 1906, whose work is the subject of the next section. To complete volume 1 all available facts about each hotel are chronologically tabulated - these include the names of Licensees from first issue to 1906, type of construction, size, auctions, changes of name etc. Volume 2 comprises a study of the architectural styles of the hotel buildings still in existence.