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Name/TitleSet of research papers: Heidelberg Conservation Study

MakerButler, Graeme, 1947-

Maker RoleAuthor and compiler

About this objectSet of research files relating to research for the Heidelberg Conservation Study (1985). The Heidelberg Conservation Study was prepared by Graeme Butler in consultation with the Heidelberg Heritage Advisory Committee.

FOLDER 1:
> Constitution of the Heidelberg Heritage Advisory Committee, 1981.
> Correspondence with the HHAC regarding the Heidelberg Conservation Study, 1981.
> Study brief, street median report.
> Advisory committee meeting minutes and agenda, circa 1981 - 1993.

FOLDER 2: Letters
> Contact list of addresses of current property owners, annotated
> Responses from owners of properties, notable examples include a letter from Beryl Brock, mentioning notable residents and painters Charles Davies and family; and a letter from Alistair Knox, nephew of Impressionist painter William Dunn Knox, also referring to Lindsay Edward, head of the RMIT Art School and painter; Joyce Keam's history of life at Glen Ard.

FOLDER 3: Correspondence
> Correspondence between Graeme Butler and the Heidelberg Advisory Committee, including discussion of invoices and agreement, circa 1982 - 1986, and discussion of Kitchener Reserve, 1982.
> Preliminary brief for landscape assessment, 6 pages.

FOLDER 4: Correspondence
> Research correspondence regarding significant properties, circa 1980 - 1983.
> Preliminary lists of properties.

FOLDER 5: Plans
> Large plan of 21 Maltravers Road.
> 6 composite A3 plans, including proposed swimmers dressing rooms at Sills Park Heidelberg and elevation plan of Shire Hall Heidelberg.
> Coloured plan, park reserves in Mount Eagle Estate, Eaglemont.

FOLDER 6: Heidelberg Heritage Open Day
> Official guide notes featuring significant properties and parks
> Open Day program and map
> Report on Heidelberg Heritage Day - October 25th 1981
> Bus route and walking tour map, and list of stops on routes.

FOLDER 7: Ivanhoe Methodist Church
> Booklet, Ivanhoe Methodist Church, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 1890-1965, 18 pages, includes photographs
> 4 page booklet, Ivanhoe Methodist Church, Mural Panel interpretation and weekly program schedule.

FOLDER 8: Austin Hospital
> Historic description, September 1981
> Landscape description.
> 3 aerial photographs or Austin Hospital buildings and Jennings Estate
> 3 floor plans, one original and two copies, titled typical floor plan of Austin Hospital, 1972

FOLDER 9: Heidelberg Conservation Study draft study
> 220 pages, Heidelberg Heritage Study, draft version, July 1981, includes annotated notes by Graeme Butler (includes black and white images of properties and landscapes)
> Historic sites and structures list, July 1981, 3 pages.
> Register of Significant Trees, April 1982, 6 pages.
> Extract of Conference on Plane Tree Diseases, 1918.
> Man-made landscape in Heidelberg, 1 page environmental history.

FOLDER 10: Real Estate Listings, circa 1980s
> Real Estate listings from broadsheet newspapers including the Heidelberger. The Herald and The Age.
> Newspaper article on Heidelberg Heritage Study featuring photograph of Graeme Butler, The Heidelberger, Wednesday November 24, 1982.

FOLDER 11: Walter Burley Griffin's Pholiota, 23 Glenard Drive and Knitlock Architecture
> Bound research file containing extracts of the following publications - Sydney Sunday Sun 1926, research report by Peter Navaretti 1980, elevation plans from Magic of America by Marion Mahoney Griffin, Land and Transport circa 1914, diagrams of Glenard estate and Mount Eagle District, Australian Home Builder circa 1922.
> National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Submission for the Addition of "Pholiata" [sic], rear of 23 Glenard Drive, Eaglemont, to the Register of Historic Buildings, April 1980, draft.

FOLDER 12:
> Heidelberg Conservation Study, City of Heidelberg, review of residential code, multi-unit residential code, policy manual and elderly persons housing policy, circa 1978.

FOLDER 13: Ephemera
> Ivanhoe Voice council newsletter, October 1986.
> Brochure, Announcing Birds of Heidelberg and the Yarra Valley, published by Warringal Conservation Society.
> Brochure, The Street Where You Live is an Urban Conservation area, September 1987, 2 copies.
> Copy of extract from Illustrated Australian News, 1 June 1881, page 109, illustration of "Hospital for Incurables", now the location of the Austin Hospital.
> Glossy copy, Charteris Estate, Mount Eagle District brochure, circa 1916.
> Invitation, Opening of the Art of Rupert Bunny and E. Phillips Fox at the Banyule Gallery, 1984.
> "Victoria and Her Resources, or the Triumph of Industry, evinced by a Visit to Heidelberg, April 4, 1861", poem in verse by P. O'Brien, 1 sheet, copy of item in State Library of Victoria collection.
> copies of 3 photographs of properties in Heidelberg designed by Harold Desbrowe-Annear, located in the vicinity of the Eyrie, the Panorama and Outlook Drive.
> paper copy of photograph of small brick cottage on Charterisville estate, circa 1890s.
> Coloured postcard, vista of Heidelberg from Eagle Mount, handwritten message on back.
> photographic print copy of photograph of unknown location, probably vista of Heidelberg from Eagle Mount.

FOLDER 14: Research documents.
> History of Macleod, 4 pages.
> From White Settlement to the Present Day, 6 pages.
> National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Research into Ivanhoe Public Gold Course Club Buildings, by Carlotta Kellaway 6 pages.
> Index to surnames of inscriptions relating to that portion of Heidelberg Cemetery reserved for [...] the Roman Catholic Church M and the General Section N, compiled for the Society of Genealogists of London, April and May 1913.
> History titled "Heidelberg : Hawdon : Banyule" also referring Banyle Gallery as described in Vol II of Historic Homesteads of Australia, by Frank Strahan, and Freedom from Prejudice by Brian Finemore.
> "Rangeworthy" - 39 York Avenue, Ivanhoe East, compiled by Dulcie Godfrey, September 1981 for Heidelberg Historical Society.
> "Balgartnie" 18-24 Mount Road, Heidelberg, 3 pages.
> Summary of Graeme Buter's comments on "Greymouth" 309 Upper Heidelberg Road, Heidelberg, July 1986, 1 page.
> Blake and Riggall, Application to have the Melbourne Metropolitan Planning Scheme amended pursuant to Section 32(3) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1961 so as to effect a rezoning, 11 pages.
> Compilation of research on Rosanna Golf Links, 10 pages.
> Extract of the Voters' Roll for the Shire of Heidelberg for the year ending July 1872, 5 pages.
> The Ivanhoe Views Estate, report on the area bounded by Silverdale Road, Alandale Road, Robina Road, the Eyrie and the Righi, Eaglemont for Ian Stewart and others by Graeme Butler

FOLDER 15:
> Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works [ MMBW ] drainage plans and certificates of title.
> Copy of letter from Norman Lindsay, 1966, copied from ANZ Archives, regarding Charterisville property buildings.
> Annotated plan, Charterisville homestead, copy of plan in thesis by Richard Peterson, annotated by GB.
> Subdivision plan, Glanville Estate, Keelbundora
> Copy of Grant by Purchase, by Charles Callow, referring to land of above plan, in the Village of Warringal, parish of Keelbundora, in the vicinity of Burgundy Street and Buckland Street.
> Subdivision plan, area covering Powlett and Martin Streets, and Stradbroke Avenue.
> Subdivision plan, Heidelberg Heights Estate, part of crown portion 3, Parish of Keelbundora.
> Plan of "Taruna", 579 Upper Heidelberg Road, Heights Estate, Heidelberg West [mislabelled as Lower Plenty Road]
> Copy of contract of sale of 10 acres of land comprising Crown Allotment 148 in the Parish of Jika Jika, from Adam Landells to John Harris on 28 March 1877, Registrar General's Office, No.308, Book 265.

FOLDER 16: Beauview Estate
> Glossy copy of cover of Beauview Homes promotional guide.
> Copy of AV Jennings Beauview Homes estate promotional guide, including some annotations on cover page.

FOLDER 17: 1956 Olympic Village
> bound copy, "Housing Commission, Victoria presents The Olympic Village, Heidelberg, Victoria" for the XVIth Olympiad, Melbourne 1956, 18 pages.

FOLDER 18: Heidelberg Artists
> Extract of Smike to Bulldog: letters from Sir Arthur Streeton to Tom Roberts, edited with annotations by R.H. Croll, 2 pages.
> Extract of chapter 3 of Australian impressionist painters; a pictorial history of the Heidelberg School by William Splatt and Susan Bruce, 8 pages.

These items are part of the Butler Collection, a large archive of conservation studies, photographs and related reference material.

Date Madec.1985

Subject and Association KeywordsHeritage and conservation studies

Subject and Association KeywordsHeidelberg (Vic.)

Subject and Association KeywordsBanyule (Vic.: City)

Subject and Association KeywordsHistoric buildings and sites

Subject and Association KeywordsIvanhoe (Vic.)

Subject and Association KeywordsArchitecture

Subject and Association KeywordsEaglemont (Vic.)

Subject and Association KeywordsMount Eagle

Subject and Association KeywordsDesbrowe-Annear, Harold, 1865-1933.

Subject and Association KeywordsArt and artists

Named CollectionButler Collection

Credit LineDonated by Graeme Butler, 2023.

Object TypeBook

Object numberRG03-04-003-1

Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved