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Construction, Manufacturing and Education and Training are also key industry sectors. Ballarat is in a key strategic position with four main highways the Western, Midland, Glenelg and Sunraysia connecting it to the industrial centres of Melbourne, Adelaide, Geelong and Portland; the regional cities of Bendigo and Mildura; and agricultural areas in the Mallee and Wimmera. Melbourne International Airport and the ports of Melbourne and Geelong are located within a one-hour travel time of Ballarat.

The RDV information portal has more detailed data and statistics on the Ballarat region and regional Victoria more broadly. Regional City of Ballarat. Culture and lifestyle Ballarat has a thriving arts, tourism and cultural scene. The lecture hall on the first floor was not finally completed until By the Institute was running out of space, so the Committee boldly decided to erect the existing, grand three-storey frontage to Sturt Street.

The design of architect J. Difficulties with the foundations, the architect and the contractors caused a substantial overrun in cost. The facade has a recessed central section flanked by two three storey bays with Greek and Roman classical motifs. The coved arch above the entrance is bordered by sculptural relief panels with two reclining figures, and to either side are shopfronts. The library floor has a central arched and fanned alcove with a slightly projecting balustraded balcony.

The central bay of the top floor is also recessed with a small balcony and above the parapet is a sculpture of Minerva, the Roman goddess associated with wisdom, symbolising the Institute's desire for knowledge.

The building is substantially intact internally. The library houses a vast collection of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century books, newspapers, journals, and Institute records dating from c. It includes early Ballarat and Australian colonial publications, and collections of notable individuals such as John Fawkner and JB Humffray. There are also tours, cultural events and exhibitions. The facade was completed that year and the rest of the building was constructed in the next few years.

The Victorian Heritage Database notes that: "The hotel facade is composed on the upper floor of French doors surmounted by austerely detailed Renaissance heads on consoles, and on the centre door a pediment. The building has a particularly elegant and early veranda and balcony, which tend to over-shadow the facade.

It is a two storey version of the early single storey flat roofed and balustraded post verandas. The original elements are from ground up : the slender cast iron columns with Corinthian capitals; ground floor brackets, swag bellied balcony panels; the double timber balusters with frieze iron inserts; cornice and brackets Early photographs and etchings show the hotel as an opulent structure which was originally luxuriant with potted palms on the first floor level This building, and especially its veranda, is of great interest in a state wide context.

This is the only remaining two storied veranda of this form. The Victorian Heritage Database notes that: "The building is a sizeable composition with mixed Renaissance and Venetian Gothic characteristics, including recessed loggias on the three upper levels, with trefoil Gothic arches to two levels and very unusual cusped stilted segmental arches on the top storey.

From the roof projects an openwork octagonal structure, formerly domed with pinnacles at the corners. Sugg Lamp Notice the remarkable street light in the centre of the road at the corner of Lydiard and Sturt Street.

It is known as a Sugg Lamp. The Ballarat Revealed website notes: "In the City of Ballarat introduced 20 gas lamps - this is one of two 'original' Sugg lamps in Ballarat the other one is at the junction of Sturt and Grenville Streets , the oldest of their kind in the world. It is particularly rare because these English sided lamps were built large enough to house candles, pre-dating piped gas systems when street lights became much smaller. In William Sugg became the first person to make and lay a gas pipeline for lighting, and the Sugg company which designed and manufactured gas lighting was for a time one of the biggest such companies in the world.

The symmetrical facade decorated with a trabeated system of pilasters, is dominated by the dome roofed clock tower, which has a peal of bells and pedimented end towers with fan-shaped windows The building is one of the earliest very substantial town halls in the State and is one of the very few with a central clock tower.

Ballarat Town Hall is believed to be one of a few in the world with a peal of bells. The detailing of the corner towers is most unusual. Parts of the interior are intact. The GPO in Melbourne was larger. A telegraph office and treasury was added to the Lydiard Street north frontage in , followed by further offices and a clock tower in Camp Street In the s a Government Camp hence the name was established on this elevated site to give troopers an open view of the gold diggings below.

It was from this point that government troopers left to march to the Eureka Stockade on 3 December, Summerscales Building Occupying the corner of Lydiard Street and Camp Street, and with a number of shops under the awning, the Summerscale Building was constructed in by bookseller, H.

The shop he built included part of the Mining Board Room and was extended in After courtrooms were provided in the new state government offices. Ballarat Police Station also known as Huyghue House Located at 15 Camp Street, and uniquely defined by its decorative cast iron veranda, this Italianate multi-coloured building was constructed between and on a bluestone base.

The old police station was renamed after S. Huyghue, a Canadian-born novelist, poet and essayist who witnessed the events of the Eureka Stockade. The northern single storey wing was apparently added at a later date. The brown brickwork is relieved by bands of cream, and rough-faced bluestone is used below grounds floor level along Camp Street. A raised single storey verandah with cast iron columns and balustrading complete the camp street elevation.

The use of decorative cast iron of a type more commonly seen in residential work makes this police station unique in Victoria. The building now forms part of the Art Gallery of Ballarat, housing offices and meeting rooms. The Victorian Heritage Database notes that it is "a rare example of a two-storey masonry warehouse of the midth century. In its original form, with pulleys, hooks, and hoists, it exhibits the type of warehouse structure of the day The facade is also notable for its unusual false and real chimneys, used to establish the symmetry on the Mair Street side.

Built on an unusually shaped and sharp block, the building has a complex design that utilises the tight space. Designed in Federation Queen Anne style the building features a pepper pot dome and an impressive sheer wall disappearing down Field Street. It features a profusion of stained glass windows on all facades, an open bay with Art Nouveau fretwork and circular accented balustrading along the roofline.

Built in on land which was given by John W. Queen Anne was mostly a residential style inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement in England, but also encompassed some of the more stylised elements of Art Nouveau, which gave it a more decorative look.

Queen Anne style civic buildings are a rarity in Australia. The red brick from which the YMCA is built is typically Arts and Crafts as is the the roughcast wall treatment over the portico, on which the Young Men's Christian Association's name appears in stylised lettering. The beautiful stained glass windows on the other hand are very Art Nouveau in design, as is the fretwork around the open upper floor bay. The pepper pot dome is made of pressed metal in a "fish scale" pattern, which was made very popular by the worldwide craze for all things Japanese in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries after Japan opened its borders to Westerners.

The Victorian Heritage Database notes: "It is a three-storey brick building set on a sharply angled site. Its rendered facade is executed in a grandiose mannerist design using giant Corinthian orders and broken pediments. The hall is located on the ground floor with offices at the front and the central bluestone stair leads to more office space on the 1st floor and a meeting room on the second. With the exception of the facade, the building is simple, functional and unadorned.

Only Ballarat tradesmen were allowed to work on its construction. The ANA was established in Australia in the middle of the 19th century to provide medical and other services.

By , it had 17, members, mostly in Victoria. It was built between and in textured cement with impressive columns on either side of the entrance and an original ornate fence that surrounds the building. The Ballarat State Bank opened for business in and this impressive two-storey building was constructed in It remained with the State Bank until this branch closed in It is worth observing the first floor windows which are alternately triangular and curved.

It is a remarkable example of an art nouveau-influenced building. It was built in and known as the Camp Hotel. The building features wrought iron lamp brackets on the top and from a distance the first floor has two windows that look like eyes and a central window which looks like a nose. Lydiard Street Walking Trail Lydiard Street is regarded as one of Australia's most beautifully preserved historic thoroughfares. It has some of the country's finest examples of colonial architecture and is often used as an historic setting for movies and advertisements.

At the end of the mall, at 5 Lydiard Street, is the Ballarat Gaol which was built around and housed prisoners until The gaol's prisoners included Captain Moonlight Andrew Scott who escaped and at least 12 people who were executed. The Victorian Heritage Database explains its significance: "The former Gaol, Lydiard Street South, Ballarat, was constructed to designs by the Public Works Department of Victoria; the first cell blocks in , gaolers and warders quarters, towers and walls all in The cell blocks have been demolished.

The entrance front comprises the two storey quarters blocks about a central entrance, with side walls and entrances and a corner lookout tower.

Construction is in brick with basalt dressings. The former Gaol is a building of considerable historical importance and forms an essential part of the streetscape and historic townscape of Ballarat.

Architecturally the building is a representative example of nineteenth century prison design by the Public Works Department of Victoria and is essentially Classic Revival stylistically, with 'medieval' detailing to the corner tower. It is the oldest remnant of a school of mines in Victoria and in Australia having been constructed in to provide a scientific and practical education in mining and related fields.

The School of Mines became especially famous for its science, engineering, metallurgy, chemistry and geology courses. The Heritage Database notes its significance as "The Ballarat School of Mines Federation University Australia is architecturally significant and demonstrates most of the principal characteristics of the class of further education campuses since the s.

It is a notable example of the class as demonstrated through its combination of purpose built and adapted buildings featuring a range of construction eras and built forms and spread over a diverse topography.

The Ballarat School of Mines Federation University Australia also includes fine two-storey brick and rendered buildings along the former School of Mines' boundary on Lydiard Street South which contrast with buildings constructed at later periods across the balance of the campus.

The elaborate structure of polychromatic brickwork with geometric tracery around the windows includes stunning amphitheatre-style seating.

The Victorian Heritage Database notes: "The Gothic design of the former Wesleyan Church, which skilfully handles a difficult site, is important as a striking example of polychrome brickwork. The elongated windows of the former Wesleyan Church, with geometric tracery, are also of significance for their notched brickwork diaper patterns, together with the horizontal wall banding the lozenge motifs.

It is particularly rare because these English 12 sided lamps were built large enough to house candles, pre-dating piped gas systems when street lights became much smaller. The sanctuary and transepts, designed by Edward James, were added in There is an impressive stained glass window to St George which was installed in Chancery House Located at 38 Lydiard Street South, Chancery House is an impressive Renaissance Revival building which still has its original floor, chimney, roof, Doric columns and frieze.

It was built in Ansonia Located at 32 Lydiard Street, and originally known as Furnival Chambers, it was originally an office building in the mid s which was subsequently converted into a boutique hotel. Fraser, Nevett, Frawley Located at 41 Lydiard Street South, this solid Renaissance revival building was originally a bank with nine arched windows on the first floor.

Described by the Ballarat Courier as "Constructed in as a single-storey building and expanded around to its current two storeys, the building retains many of the features that a wealthy Victorian would have thought de rigueur. Tesselated tile floors, inlaid fireplaces and sizeable rooms marked the building as the office of a person of considerable influence. The inadequacy of the trial was an important event in the lead-up to the Eureka Stockade.

It evolved from Bath's Hotel which was built in by Thomas Bath who received the first hotel licence of the Victorian diggings.

Walter Craig bought the hotel in He added the present three-storey Lydiard Street brick facade in , the corner tower and three-storey western section in and the portico in American writer Mark Twain stayed at Craig's Hotel during a visit in the s and Dame Nellie Melba famously sang from its balcony in Cuthbert, the north wing from by James and Piper, and the cast iron porch in by Smith and Malloy.

The south wing comprises a ground flour of banded rustication surmounted by two storeys of loggias with two towers above. The north wing features and octagonal tower with pointed roof and window' walk. Craig's Royal Hotel, 10 Lydiard Street South, Ballarat, is a hotel of considerable architectural importance, has substantial historical associations and forms an essential part of the streetscape and townscape of Ballarat.

The south wing is an important and substantial example of the Italianate style, of note particularly for its double storey loggias, towers and detailing. The north wing has been sympathetically added yet is distinctively late boom style. Today, concerts and live shows are still held on the stage where Dame Nellie Melba once performed. The theatre has been owned by the City of Ballarat since The Victorian Heritage Database notes "it is the most substantially intact of our remaining 19th century theatres, which include the Theatre Royal in Hobart, the Princess in Melbourne and Her Majesty's in Brisbane Its double horse-shoe shaped balconies supported on columns, added from the designs of the notable architect William Pitt in , are the last example of this type of theatre design in the State.

The Victorian Heritage Register notes: "This two storey building constructed of stuccoed brick has a five bay facade.

The fluted Doric columns of the ground floor colonnade are in the Greek manner, without bases. This colonnade is grandly matched by an upper floor colonnade of unfluted Corinthian columns supporting an entablature with dentillated cornice below a balustraded parapet.

Behind the colonnades is a conventional Terry facade, with a rusticated ground floor of ruled masonry courses, and hooded windows in the piano nobile with projecting balconettes. The Greek revival character is maintained by the diagonal patterned transom lights above the entrance and the iron scroll work of the balconettes.

From the roof projects an open work octagonal structure, formerly domed with pinnacles at the corners. Former Bank of Australasia Located on the corner of Lydiard Street North and Sturt Street currently a jeweller and a cafe , the former Bank of Australasia was designed by architect Leonard Terry who designed at least 50 other banks in Victoria.

It is an extraordinary and imposing Italian Palazzo-style building, which was constructed in Note the elaborate 18 ceiling, distinctive balustrades and decorative arch windows. The Victorian Heritage Database notes: "The two storied structure is stuccoed with a bluestone plinth.

The ground floor facade features smooth rustication to arch springing level with a smooth surface above, decorated with voussoirs and quoins. The smooth surfaced upper storey is decorated with segmental window hoods, string courses and quoins and a balustraded parapet.

Mining Exchange Located at Lydiard Street North, and clearly marked "Mining Exchange", this classical building with wide elliptical entrance was erected between The Victorian Heritage Database explains: " It was designed by the local architect Charles Figgis, and replaced an earlier stock exchange established at the corner of Sturt and Lydiard Streets. As early as , the buying and selling of shares took place as a result of the formation of mining companies, necessary to finance the costly deep sinking of mines The Mining Exchange building comprises a two storey block of shops at the front and a large single storey exchange hall at the rear.

A central entrance in the symmetrical front facade leads to the main exchange hall, which is itself flanked internally by arcaded brokers' booths with arched clerestorey windows above, and a call room at the rear.

The bull nose, corrugated iron roof of the main hall is supported on light trusses, principally formed of tension rods. Internally a bow fronted balcony projects above the entrance, set within an open elliptical archway with matching archways either side.

Designed in the typical classical 'boom' style of the late s, the facade of this dark brick building utilises render to provide contrast. Shops are paired either side of a central wide elliptical entrance and prominent rusticated arches dominate the facade at street level.

At first floor level, modified Palladian motifs form openings with emphasis placed on that of the central bay. A pedimented window and pediment placed centrally in the balustraded parapet above further emphasise the central bay. The Mining Exchange recorded 98 members when it opened and when gold mining declined, the elaborate building was used as a garage, bus depot and craft market.

The Avenue of Honour is a grand boulevard in Ballarat which commemorates local soldiers who fought in the First World War. It commences 4 kilometres west of the city centre, at the junction of Sturt Street and Learmonth Street, where a 17 metre high cement and brick arch was built over the roadway in From here, the boulevard extends 22 kilometres westwards, lined with over 3, trees, each with a bronze memorial plaque listing the name of a soldier. Step back in time to Ballarat's gold mining days at Sovereign Hill which is a recreated gold township of the s where you can experience life in that era.

The Eureka Centre is situated close to the site of the Eureka Stockade Rebellion where miners and officials engaged in a bloody battle over miner's rights. An important asset to Ballarat is Lake Wendouree, a man-made lake covering hectares, located a couple of kilometres west of the town centre. The lake hosted rowing events during the Olympic Games, commemorated by the Olympic Rings monument at the south-western corner of the lake.