A SELECTION OF SIGNIFICANT BALLARAT BUILDINGS
by Dr.Gay Sweely, Architectural Historian

(Each category is in alphabetical order.
Key: BOLD TEXT = highly significant


GENERAL BUILDINGS

  • Alexandria Tea Rooms
  • Arch of Victory
  • Australian Natives' Association Building (original)

Lydiard Street
BANK PRECINCT LYDIARD STREET (
PICTURE :RM)

  • Bank Precinct, Lydiard Street (by Leonard Terry - all four)
  • Brazenor's Buildings
  • Cattleyards (Ballarat Corporation) and Railways (extensions)
  • Electra Hall
  • Alfred Hall

    Fine Art Gallery
    PICTURE: RM

  • Fine Art Gallery (PICTURE ABOVE)
  • Fire Tower, Ballarat East
  • Fire Tower, Sturt Street West
  • Grandstands (sports and horseracing around Ballarat)
  • Her Majesty's Theatre
  • Mechanics' Institute
  • Ballarat Public Library (former, Camp Street)
  • Military Barracks (Hall)
  • Mining Exchange
  • National Mutual Building
  • Observatory
  • Police Barracks, Camp Street
  • Post Office, Ballarat East
  • Post Office, City of Ballarat (West)
  • Railway Station, (East and West Railway Precincts and gates)
  • Mitchell’s Building (now Myer Department Store)
  • Regent Theatre
  • Reid's Coffee Palace
  • Town Hall
  • Town Hall, Ballarat East
  • Train Station Buildings, (Lydiard Street)
  • YMCA Building (Camp Street -- front portion)


    WAREHOUSES

  • Angel and Lister's Warehouse
  • Dunn's Warehouse
  • Irwin's Buildings (later St. Paul's Technical School, now Ludbrook House)
  • Pratt's Warehouse
  • Train Warehouses (bluestone) at Ballarat East and West Train Stations


    RESIDENCES

  • Bailey's Mansion
  • Montrose Cottage
  • Old Colonists' Homes (off Gillies Street)


    HOTELS

  • Camp Hotel (now Irish Murphy's)
  • Craig's Royal Hotel
  • George Hotel

Provincial Hotel
PICTURE: RM

  • Provincial Hotel (PICTURE ABOVE)
  • Unicorn Hotel


    SCHOOLS

  • Ballarat and Clarendon College (main building, Sturt Street)
  • Ballarat and Clarendon College's Junior Campus (Mair Street)
  • Ballarat and Queen's Anglican Grammar School (main building by George Clegg)
  • Ballarat High School (formerly Ballarat Agricultural College)
  • School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat (Gaol, Courthouse, Art Building, etc.)
  • Aquinas Campus, Australian Catholic University


    PAVILIONS

  • Alexandra Bandshell (Sturt Street)
  • Pavilions and Kiosk around Lake Wendouree
  • Pavilions at the Ballarat Old and New Cemeteries
  • Statuary Pavilion, Ballarat Botanical Gardens


Titanic Bandstand
PICTURE: RM

  • Titanic Memorial Pavilion (Sturt Street) (PICTURE ABOVE)

    CEMETERIES


  • Ballarat Old and New Cemeteries
  • Chinese Areas
  • Early Settlers
  • Eureka Stockade Monument and Burials (miners and soldiers)


    RELIGIOUS HOUSES OF WORSHIP

  • Anglican Cathedral Complex (Diocesan Centre)
  • Baptist Church (Dawson Street)
  • Catholic (Roman), St. Patrick's Cathedral Complex
  • Congregational Church (former)
  • Ebenezer Presbyterian Church
  • Jewish Synagogue (oldest Jewish House of Worship in the Southern Hemisphere)
  • Lutheran (German) Church Complex
  • Methodist Church Complex (Neil and Macarthur Streets)
  • Presbyterian (St Andrews Kirk)
  • Salvation Army Complex (Alfred Street South)
  • St. Alipius Church Complex
  • St. Patrick's Cathedral
  • St. Paul's Anglican Church
  • St. Peter's Anglican Church
  • Wesleyan Complex (Lydiard and Dana Streets)


    RECONSTRUCTION

  • Bakery Hill
  • Bridge Mall
  • Sovereign Hill

    MISCELLANEOUS

  • Boomgates (Lydiard Street Train Station)