Specifications

Name of Mansion

Uxbridge House

Owners and occupiers

EAD

Dem [c1936]

Location details

Old Municipality

Fitzroy

Current Municipality

YARRA

Current Suburb

FitzroyCurrent AddressNicholson St, 98[se cnr Hanover St. MMBW ref]

Record

Current Standing

Record no

5916

Last amended

6/4/1999

Owners & Occupiers

Architect

Secondary Architects

YEAR

1862 pre

Agent

Secondary Agent

Source, ilustrations and features

Sources

ML NOTE, 2004: This is possibly the former house of R S Webb, then Edward Grimes, on an unspecified corner of Nicholson and Hanover Sts. | MLFitzroy general history file. Now Cairo flats, once the site of Uxbridge House, the residence of the Hon James Munro MLA, Minister for Education, & a leader of the temperance movement in Victoria. Brick garden wall still stands along the Hanover St boundary. | Same site, but same house as S&K 1859 Deeble, Samuel, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St]? | Same site, but same house as S&K 1861 Thomas, George, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St]? | S&M 1862 Bate [sic], William, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1863, 1865 Bates, William, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1870 Bates, Hon William, MLA, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1873 Bates, Hon William, MLA, 'Uxbridge House', Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1877 Bates, Hon William, Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1885, 1890 Bates, Hon William, 90 Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1895 Bates, Mrs William, 90 Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | S&M 1900 Behan, Mrs Alice & Maud, private hospital, 90 Nicholson St [se cnr Hanover St] | � Sue Bradshaw, 'John McMahon' [text of a talk toi the Fitzroy History Society], The Fitzroy History Society [newsletter]., April 2005, pp 2-3: John McMahan, of 75 Alfred Creescent, North Fitzroy [qv], died in 1918 at Uxbridge House private hospital, Nicholson St.

Illustrations

Photocopy of early photo on ML file. | Not the same as SLV Picture Collection Library Record Number 810303. John Moir photo, 1934. Large single fronted 2 storey, large Ionic cols to ver with timber[?] posts to balc, ci panels to balustrade.

Features

MMBW & Melway

MELWAY

2B K9

MMBW_40

1205 [Oct 1898]

MMBW_160

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