Description

North Melbourne, also known during the nineteenth century as Hotham, developed quickly as a predominantly residential suburb from the 1850s. Historically, it has been a place with a strong sense of itself, a place connected by proximity to the city and the surrounding inner suburbs, but also separate, with its own identity and character formed by decades of municipal separation that lasted from 1859-1905.

What's On

Join a historian and heritage landscape specialist to engage with places that mark twentieth century change in this predominantly nineteenth century suburb. Drawing on work undertaken for the North Melbourne Heritage Review for the City of Melbourne, the tour will consider models for social housing, landscape and urban change, the influence of post-war migration and the expression of religion.

This tour will take attendees away from the commercial centre of North Melbourne to its suburban heart, providing an opportunity for discovery of a diverse range of places. Attendees will be introduced to alternative approaches to streetscapes, housing developments and churches established during a period characterised by slum clearance and demographic changes in the inner suburb.