A house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne,
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A house at number 23 Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, on the North side, between Nicholson Street and Fitzroy Street. This house was constructed in 1854 or 1855. John Lockyer O’Brien (1905–1965) was an historian at the University. His collection of about 4,000 photographs was taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many of them capture the architecture and streetscapes of inner-city Melbourne when the area was in transition between its then 19th century topography and working-class status prior to large-scale demolitions to made way for the construction of the Housing Commission high-rise blocks, and middle-class migration back to the inner-city and subsequent renovation and gentrification of its housing. He was also interested in the early architecture of country Victoria and photographed 19th century homesteads, hotels, churches, banks, railway stations, as well as humbler buildings. He and his wife Laurie owned and resided in a double-storey Georgian-style bluestone house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy.
206644 Item: [1965.0004.00175] "A house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne,"
A house at number 23 Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, on the North side, between Nicholson Street and Fitzroy Street. This house was constructed in 1854 or 1855. John Lockyer O’Brien (1905–1965) was an historian at the University. His collection of about 4,000 photographs was taken in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Many of them capture the architecture and streetscapes of inner-city Melbourne when the area was in transition between its then 19th century topography and working-class status prior to large-scale demolitions to made way for the construction of the Housing Commission high-rise blocks, and middle-class migration back to the inner-city and subsequent renovation and gentrification of its housing. He was also interested in the early architecture of country Victoria and photographed 19th century homesteads, hotels, churches, banks, railway stations, as well as humbler buildings. He and his wife Laurie owned and resided in a double-storey Georgian-style bluestone house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy.
206644 Item: [1965.0004.00175] "A house in Hanover Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne,"