Burnett Street

A pair of impressive Classical style terraces with a columned double level verandah, designed by Crouch & Wilson and built in 1865 for Denis Eisenstaedter. He lived in no 6, which had a return verandah and a garden down to Grey Street, but had to sell in 1866. No. 8 was known as Murgah from 1894, and from the 1900s to the 1930s it was the residence of leading Melbourne architect George C Inskip (of Inskip & Butler) and his family. Each house had large side gardens, both now occupied by 60s flats, the one at no. 6 almost attached to the house.

A large elegant house built in c1882 for eminent businessman Phipps Turnbull. Designed in a restrained Italiante syle, set behind a garden facing Princes Street and very close to Burnett Street, it features an arcaded porch at ground level and blind windows above. 

A very grand mansion designed by Reed & Barnes, built in 1866, one of their very first designs in the 'Lombardic Romanesque' polychrome brick style, which they introduced to Mlebourne and eventually became popular across the city. It was an a very large block of about 8 lots, located at the highest point, with a huge garden on the downhill side, and was built for pastoralist and financier Peter Davis, and Lord Mayor of Melbourne 1856-57. It was sold in 1910 and subdivided into about 15 lots, all occupied by houses by 1917. 

Possibly Melbourne's most elaborate and extradinary Victorian terrace row, featuring a pair of mansard roofed towers, normally only seen on mansions. They were built in 1881-2, designed by architect Michael Egan for merchant James Alfred Roberts, and named after his wife. By the 1890s some occupants had given their houses different names, including no. 22 knwon as Katoomba, occupied by Louis Abraham, of Sniders & Abraham tobacco. By the 1960s all of the houses were operating as guest/ boarding houses, and all the verandahs were glassed in. In the 1970s two of the houses at the north end were replcaed by a block flats. From the late 1970s all the houses returned to single family use and all the verandahs were restored, though only no. 16 retained the original cast iron. 

A prefabricated cottage from c1854 built by or for George Watson of Cobb & Co, the Melbourne Hunt Club, and the VRC, and his family lived there into the 1920s. The verandah and bow windows are somewhat later, with the bow windows remoeved then reinstated when it was heavily restored in the 1980s. The stables in the rear are original to the 1850s. 

 An elegant Regency style 1856 house built for Portuguese merchant John Gomez De Silva, with a columned portico added after 1878. It is most famous as the Oberwyl private girls school established by Swiss-born Madame Pfund, which ran from 1878 to 1931. 

A grand mansion known as D'Almeida built for Dr Charles M Lempriere in c1856 on a relatively narrow site next to Oberwyl, built just before. It was extended probably in 1887, later becoming a private hotel known as Inveravon, and demolished c1970.