Other properties
classified by the National Trust include:
Government
House, Melbourne, one of the finest examples of Italiante architecture
in Australia
Gulf Station,
Yarra Glen, one of the pioneer farms of the yarra valley
McCrae Homestead
& Museum, one of Victoria's oldest homestead's
Mulberry
Hill, an American Colonial style residence built in the late 1920s
Briars Historic
Park, one of the oldest pastoral properties on the Mornington
Peninsula, featuring the Dame Mabel Brookes Collection of Napoleonic
artefacts
Heights Heritage
House & Garden,the largest German prefabricated building in
Victoria
Barwon Grange,
Geelong, an elegant, intact brick home dating from Geelong's earliest
riverside settlement
Partarlington
Mill, one of the few once-common flourills now open to the public
Barwon Park,
Winchelsea, is a majestic 42-room bluestone mansion and stables
Joss House,
Bendigo, the only surviving Chinese building of it kind in regional
Victoria
Mooramong
Homestead, Skipton, was built in the early 1870s but altered in
1937 to conform to American tastes
Steam Packet
Inn, Portand, was built in 1841 and is one of the oldest buildings
in Victoria
Dow's Pharmacy,
Chiltern, was built in 1859 and is now a museum
Lake View
Homestead, Chiltern, is distinguished because of its associations
with the author Henry Handel Richardson
Federal Standard
Printing Works, Chiltern, is one of the few substantailly intact
provincial newspaper printeries remaining from the gold mining
era
Powder Magazine,
Beechworth, was built in the 1850s to safely house blasting powders
used in gold mining
Most of these
properties are situated in country locations not too distant from
Melbourne and accessible as day trips. Others, such as the Steam
Packet Inn and Powder Magazine, are hundreds of kilometres from
Melbourne and more suited as weekend or multi-day excursions.
Information on all these properties can be obtained from the National
Trust (Victoria)
