3rd of September 2016 To 4th of September 2016Como House is open for guided tours covering the history of Como House and the families that have lived on the property.
They run for approximately 45 minutes.
Tickets will be available for purchase online (below) and from Como Shop in the serv Read more..Online | View Profile | South Yarra | Como House & Garden Cooks' Cottage | Open & ToursEvery Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Cooks' Cottage is rebuilt in the picturesque Fitzroy Gardens to commemorate the voyages of Captain James Cook discoverer of Australia.
Opening hours
Monday to Sunday: 9am to 5pm
Cooks' Cottage is not open Christmas Day.
Last visitor admitted 4. Read more..View Profile | East Melbourne | Cooks' Cottage Coolart HomesteadCoolart Homestead is a magnificent late Victorian mansion situated on the shores of Westernport. In the superb grounds are ever-changing wetlands that you can view from the observatory, and a lagoon where thousands of Australian white ibis nest every Read more..View Profile | Somers Coolart Homestead | OpenEvery Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Coolart Homestead is a magnificent late Victorian mansion situated on the shores of Westernport.
Opening Hours:
Coolart is open 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM daily except Christmas Day New Years Day and Good Friday. Access is via Lord Somers Road Somers Read more..View Profile | Somers | Coolart Homestead Coombe | Melba EstateOnce the home of Dame Nellie Melba, Coombe is a property with an unrivalled provenance.
Seven acres of stunning gardens and beautifully appointed facilities in the restored motor house and clock tower offer a truly unique gourmet and cultural exp Read more..View Profile | Coldstream Cooper's SettlementCooper's Settlement is located in the largest park in the Northern suburbs, Bundoora Park - 15 kilometres from the centre of Melbourne. When you visit the Settlement you can experience a variety of activities that children will want to revisit and fa Read more..View Profile | Bundoora Cooper's Settlement | OpenEvery Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday Cooper's Settlement is open 7 days a week all year round.
Cooper's Settlement is located within the largest park in the Northern suburbs Bundoora Park.
When you visit the Settlement you can experience a variety of activities that children will Read more..View Profile | Bundoora | Cooper's Settlement David CollinsColonel David Collins (3 March 1756 – 24 March 1810) was the first Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, founded in 1804 (Tasmania).
Collins established the first ever settlement in the state of Victoria at Sullivan Bay in 1803. S Read more..View Profile | Sorrento DromkeenGallery – Cafe/Tea Room – Event Venue -
Built in 1889, Dromkeen was once the country estate of Judge Arthur Chomley and later became home to the world famous Dromkeen Picture Book Art Collection.
Nestled in the Macedon ranges in the tiny hamle Read more..View Profile | Riddells Creek Duneira EstateThe 1875 historic Victorian homestead is in excellent condition and is warm and inviting as it is still a much-loved family home.
Built in 1875 by Suetonius Officer, Duneira is a renovated homestead that tells the tale of its subsequent owners.
Read more..View Profile | Mount Macedon Emu Bottom HomesteadThe story of Emu Bottom Homestead begins on August 30 1835, when the schooner Enterprize sailed up Port Phillip Bay.
On board was the first party of settlers who built the huts of the banks of the Yarra from which the City of Melbourne then Read more..View Profile | Sunbury Enterprize WharfStanding on the banks of the Yarra River next to Queen's Bridge is one of our favourite Melbourne locations, Enterprize Wharf.
Enterprize Landing is the birthplace of Melbourne, when on Sunday 30th August 1835, settlers on the tall ship schooner Read more..View Profile | Melbourne Esplanade VaultsThe Esplanade Vaults that once housed 10 shops are located on the Lower Esplanade across from the St Kilda sea baths.
In the 1890s, public transport on the Esplanade was upgraded with a new cable tramway. The upper Esplanade roadway needed to be Read more..View Profile | St Kilda Eynesbury HomesteadEynesbury Homestead is a bluestone homestead built for Samuel Thomas Staughton dating from the early 1870s.
The single storied bay windowed side wings date from the 1880s as does probably the concave timber verandah. Quoins, widows walk and the e Read more..View Profile | Eynesbury Flagstaff Hill Maritime VillageFlagstaff Hill Maritime Village & Shipwrecked Sound and Laser Show
Flagstaff Hill Maritime Village invites you to embark on the journey that resulted in one of Australia's most infamous maritime disasters when you experience Shipwrecked, an enthra Read more..View Profile | Warrnambool Fontainebleau | Frederick McCubbinHidden away on the north side of Mount Macedon, Fontainebleau is the former country property of the much-loved Australian painter Frederick McCubbin.
24 September 2010 marks the Centenary of the purchase of 'Fontainebleau', the McCubbin family pro Read more..View Profile | Mount Macedon Fountains of MelbourneMelbourne has some delightful water fountains (or should we say 'water features') and thanks to the current lord mayor Robert Doyle, many are being turned on after being turned off because of water restrictions.
The fountaints are designed to be l Read more..View Profile | Melbourne GlenfernGlenfern once stood in more than four acres of ornamental pleasure grounds and orchard complete with stables, pigsty and cows. Even today it boasts a spacious though more modest garden.
The main section was built in 1857, the east wing perhaps som Read more..View Profile | East St Kilda Government HouseGovernment House is the official residence of the Governor of Victoria, and is located in the precincts of the Botanical Gardens.
Government House History
Melbourne was founded on the east-west axis of the Yarra River. At first, the north bank wa Read more..View Profile | Melbourne Grand Carousel | Luna Park Merry Go RoundLuna Park's Merry Go Round, the Grand Carousel original home was White City in Sydney before coming to Luna Park in 1923 where it has remained ever since and is fondly remembered by generations of Melburnians.
PTC#30, the thirtieth machine made by Read more..View Profile | St Kilda Greenvale SanatoriumThe only way to describe today the former Greenvale Sanatorium is spooky!
The former Greenvale tuberculosis sanatorium was opened in May 1905 as the first purpose-built public tuberculosis institution in Victoria. It was particularly important in Read more..View Profile | Greenvale Gulf StationYarra Valley's Pioneer Working Farm
Gulf Station began in the 1840’s as part of a 25000 acre run known as the Gulf. The Bell family began their lives here in the late 1840’s and the homestead and outbuildings are a part of the legacy that the fam Read more..View Profile | Yarra Glen Gulf Station | OpenEvery Thursday, Saturday, Sunday Yarra Valley's Pioneer Working Farm
Located less than an hour away from Melbourne’s CBD in the picturesque Yarra Valley, Gulf Station is one of the oldest and most intact timber farm complexes in Australia.
The numerous original farm outbuild Read more..View Profile | Yarra Glen | Gulf Station H.M.V.S. Cerberus | Historic ShipwreckHMVS (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship) Cerberus has rested in three metres of water at Half Moon Bay since being scuttled to form a breakwater in 1926.
To the casual observer there appeared to be no deterioration until a major collapse took place in Read more..View Profile | Black Rock Harrick's CottageHarrick's Cottage is of cultural significance as a rare surviving example of a pole constructed, tent shaped dwelling and is an example of an Irish immigrant settler's hut dating from the early 1860s.
The pole and scantling tent structure built i Read more..View Profile | Keilor Park Heritage Hill Museum & Historic GardensTake a trip back in time and discover Dandenong’s unique social history
through a visit to Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens.
Heritage Hill is comprised of three historic buildings, and approximately 1.5 acres of landscaped gardens.
Read more..View Profile | Dandenong Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens | OpenEvery Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday Take a trip back in time and discover Dandenong’s unique social history
through a visit to Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens.
Read more..View Profile | Dandenong | Heritage Hill Museum & Historic Gardens HeronswoodHeronswood is a historic property that was built in 1864 and is located in Dromana, Victoria. A Gothic Revival house built in 1874, and highly picturesque, it incorporates the original shingled roofed cottage that was the first structure built on 46 Read more..View Profile | Dromana HM Prison GeelongThe Old Geelong Gaol, formerly a high security prison, remains much the same as when it ceased operation in July 1991.
The basalt (locally known as bluestone) walls and masonary together with the finely laid brickwork are among the best examples Read more..View Profile | Geelong HM Prison Geelong | OpenEvery Saturday, Sunday The Old Geelong Gaol formerly a high security prison remains much the same as when it ceased operation in July 1991.
Open to the public each Saturday and Sunday school holidays and public holidays
Closed Christmas Day Boxing day New Year's day a Read more..View Profile | Geelong | HM Prison Geelong KaroriKarori is one of Mt Macedon's most intact and important 19th Century hill station properties. Karori is of architectural importance and the gardens of state significance.
Karori is a 6 acre hill station property on the Southern slopes of Mount Mac Read more..View Profile | Mount Macedon La Trobe Cottage | OpenEvery Sunday On SUNDAYS between 2pm and 4pm (October to April) historic La Trobe's Cottage, home of Victoria's first Governor and his family, will be open for guided tours.
The modest yet elegant family home contains many pieces of La Trobe’s furniture and ot Read more..View Profile | South Yarra | La Trobe's Cottage La Trobe's CottageLa Trobe's Cottage was Victoria's first Government House.
La Trobe's Cottage was home to Charles Joseph La Trobe, his wife Sophie and their children from 1839 to 1854. Charles La Trobe arrived as Superintendent of the Port Phillip district of N Read more..View Profile | South Yarra LabassaLabassa is an outstanding Victorian era mansion with opulent architectural features.
Originally called ‘Sylliott Hill’, it was renamed ‘Ontario’ in the 1880s reflecting its new owner Alexander William Robertson’s Canadian heritage.
Robertson Read more..View Profile | Caulfield North Labassa | OpenEvery 3rd Sunday With its opulent architecture and largely intact decoration Labassa in Caulfield is one of Australia's most outstanding 19th century mansions.
Open every third Sunday of each month from 10.30am to 4.30pm.
House tours at 11am, 2pm and 3pm.
There Read more..View Profile | Caulfield North | Labassa Lionel Launch's Living Culture ToursWhen: |