The Blue Place is a community hall housed in a former Presbyterian Church in the small Tasmanian town of Kempton. The timber church was built in 1886 on land donated by James Hadden (d. 1911), whose mother Jane had been a Presbyterian convict…
An image of the Royal Exhibition Building during the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888, from the Illustrated Australian News. The Royal Exhibition Building was designed by architect Joseph Reed and completed in 1880. The round-arched…
Engraving in The Illustrated Australian News of the Chateau Tahbilk Vineyard's exhibit at the 1888 Great Hall Exhibition. The exhibit was made to look like with a medieval-style tower, complete with crenellation.
The Church of St John the Evangelist is located in the city of Albany on the southern coast of Western Australia. Construction of the stone church began in 1840 and it was the first WA church to be consecrated (October 26, 1848). The proportions of…
The Church of St John the Evangelist is located in the city of Albany on the southern coast of Western Australia. Construction of the stone church began in 1840 and it was the first WA church to be consecrated (October 26, 1848). The proportions of…
An image of The Cloisters building in Perth. The brick building was designed by Richard Rosch Jewell for Perth’s first Anglican Bishop, Mathew Hale. It was built by convicts in 1858 as the colony’s first secondary school, the Perth…
An engraving featured in The Illustrated Australian News of a design for the Federal Coffee Palace in West Melbourne. The gothic style of the design is very typical of nineteenth century architecture in Australia and other nations with British…