January 08 2009
Eastern Hill Fire Station
East Melbourne
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Eastern Hill is located at the east end of Melbourne CBD.
From Spring street through St Patrick Cathedral to around world heritage
Exhibition Building.
From the beginning stage to now, eastern hill have been capital area for
Victorian colonial capital, Capital of the Commonwealth of Australia and
the state of Victoria state.
As the government buildings have been standing this capital area, eastern
hill fire station has been carrying important role to keep capital buildings
from fire and emergency.
Address:48 Gisborne Street (corner of Victoria Parade)
Construction:1892-1893
Costruction period: Edwardian
Construction Style:Neo Gothic, Queen Ann
Application:Fire Station
Architecture:Smith & Johnson VHR No: H1042 Walking Melbourne
From VHR The Eastern Hill Fire Station is a two storey brick building with accompanying watch tower built on an elevated with a wide panorama of the City. Architectural firms Tayler & Fitts, and Smith & Johnston designed the fire station in collaboration as a merger of two competition winning designs. Thomas Cockram & Co. constructed the building at a cost of nearly ?16,000. The fire station was opened in 1893 as the headquarters station for the newly established Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board.
Residential and workshop extensions, made to the rear of the building
in the 1920's were replaced by a new head station building in 1978, and
in later years the west wing of the original building was demolished. The
Eastern Hill Fire Station displays some traces of the Queen Anne revival
style that was popular in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s. The contrasting
materials of red brick and cement, the use of parapeted gables with flanking
scrolls, the steeply pitched roof and tall chimneys all contribute to this
style. The building remains essentially a composition in the classical
style, combining arcuation and trabeation. The Eastern Hill Fire Station
is composed of two two-storey arcades flanking a central pavilion.
The ground floor arcade is raised on a bluestone plinth. The upper storey
arcade has depressed arches. The tower, with a cast iron and glass lookout
and a projecting lower balcony is 150 ft. high. It was served by a direct-current
electrical lift. The tower's style, with arched openings and niches, is
reminiscent of Italian Romanesque campaniles.
Eastern Hill is located at the east end of Melbourne CBD. 
Residential and workshop extensions, made to the rear of the building
in the 1920's were replaced by a new head station building in 1978, and
in later years the west wing of the original building was demolished. The
Eastern Hill Fire Station displays some traces of the Queen Anne revival
style that was popular in Britain in the 1870s and 1880s. The contrasting
materials of red brick and cement, the use of parapeted gables with flanking
scrolls, the steeply pitched roof and tall chimneys all contribute to this
style. The building remains essentially a composition in the classical
style, combining arcuation and trabeation. The Eastern Hill Fire Station
is composed of two two-storey arcades flanking a central pavilion. 
The ground floor arcade is raised on a bluestone plinth. The upper storey
arcade has depressed arches. The tower, with a cast iron and glass lookout
and a projecting lower balcony is 150 ft. high. It was served by a direct-current
electrical lift. The tower's style, with arched openings and niches, is
reminiscent of Italian Romanesque campaniles.