9. 66 LEARMONTH STREET |
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This house in Learmonth Street was built 1868 – 1870. The architect and builder are unknown. It has an unusual design with semi-circular arched windows. The land was purchased by Port Phillip’s first official pilot, George Tobin, who in 1863 constructed a two-room timber hut in the centre of the block and a four-room timber house at the side. New ownership in 1868 by William Henry O’Neil, another sea pilot, saw the construction of a shop with an attached dwelling added in the next year. A butcher’s shop operated here for 30 years, then later a shoe shop. The building represents a typical commercial design used in Queenscliff during the 1870s. Earliest shops developed before any local Government control, and it was common practice for people to build shops with attached dwellings wherever they wished. |
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