Building 19 (Former City Watch House) (1908 - )

From: 1908
Website: https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-heritage/historical-buildings/former-city-watch-house
Summary: Building 19 is Melbourne's former City Watch House. It was designed by the Public Works Department architect George B. H. Austin in a Romanesque Revival style. The building was constructed in 1907/08 by F. G. Shillabeer on an old cell block of the Old Melbourne Gaol (National Trust of Australia (Victoria), undated; Edquist and Grierson, 2008, p. 202). The City Watch House was purchased by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in 1997 (RMIT University, undated).

Magistrates' Court & Heritage Precinct - 16/6/97 - 21/6/01, 1997 - 2001, Item no. A0301587, Accession 1998/015; Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University Library. Details

Edquist, Harriet and Grierson, Elizabeth, A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind: A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, 2008. Details

Heritage Assets Branch, Building Services Agency, Department of Infrastructure, Melbourne City Watch House "RMIT Historic Legal Precinct" Conservation Plan, Melbourne, Victoria, February 1998, 73 pp. Also available at https://vgls.sdp.sirsidynix.net.au/client/search/asset/1268349. Details

Sources used to compile this entry: Edquist, Harriet and Grierson, Elizabeth, A Skilled Hand and Cultivated Mind: A Guide to the Architecture and Art of RMIT University, RMIT University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, 2008; City Watch House - Part of Group Classification, National Trust Heritage Register, undated, http://vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/search/nattrust_result_detail/65555; Building 19 (Former City Watch House), undated, https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-heritage/historical-buildings/former-city-watch-house.

Created: 21 December 2021, Last modified: 10 December 2024