Specifications

Name of Mansion

Owners and occupiers

Ebden, Charles Hotson [-1857- 1864-] | Smith, Hon Dr Louis L [-1878- 1885-]

EAD

Dem

Location details

Old Municipality

Melbourne (Melb)

Current Municipality

MELBOURNE

Current Suburb

MelbourneCurrent AddressCollins St, 51[south side bet Exhibition St & Spring St]

Record

Current Standing

Record no

Last amended

27/6/1997

Owners & Occupiers

Architect

Johnson, Arthur Ebden

Secondary Architects

Reed Henderson & Smart

YEAR

1857 pre [dem 1910]

Agent

Secondary Agent

Source, ilustrations and features

Sources

S&K 1857 CHE, 182 Collins St east [south side bet Stephen St & Spring St] | S&K 1861 CHE, MLA, 182 Collins St east | S&M1864 CHE, MLA, 182 & 184 Collins St east | Argus, 25 May 1878, p 11 - anon tenders called for colouring & cleaning res of LLS; | Argus, 9 May 1885, p 14 - Reed Henderson & Smart tenders for addns to res of Hon LLS, Collins St E; Journal of RVIA, Sep 1905, p 144 - Smith & Johnson designed Ebden's house in CollinsSt. | Leavitt & Lilburn, Jub Hist, I, pt III, pp 12-13 - Hon Dr L L Smith biog & illus of house. | Casey, An Aust Story, pp 115 ff - her father Charles Ryan, surgeon, had no 37 Collins St, next door | Building, 12 December 1910, p 26: old house of Dr L L Smith in Collins St being pulled down. | Annear, A City Lost and Found, pp 249-250: Ebden's house, built in the 1840s (wrong). L L Smith's son, Sir Harold Gengoult Smith, born there. It was acquired in 1911 by Pearson Tewksbury of the adjoining Oriental Hotel, and demolished to build a new wing on the hotel

Illustrations

Leavitt & Lilburn, Jub Hist, I, pt III, pp 12-13 - illus | Lewcock, Colonial Architecture in South Africa, photo of 'Belmont', J B Ebden senior's house at Rondebosch, Capetown, c 1835: doric portico in antis. | SLV Picture Collection SPF H10194, coloured drawing, c1890, res of Hon Dr L L Smith, Collins St. | Commercial album of Victoria, p 50, etching , Dr L L Smith residence, almost certainly the same as Jubilee History image. | RHSV SPD 34, excellent undated b&w photo.

Features

MMBW & Melway

MELWAY

1B N9

MMBW_40

MMBW_160

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