an ancient pub and two buildings with gently Gothic windows

a red brick factory building with unusual horizontal decoration, and a balcony without handrails

a strange object above a house; a plaster male mask on an arch; the entry to a bluestone church with the green painted information sign

a long pilastered pub and details of the decoration

Melbourne’s first suburb #FitzroySt #Fitzroy: Victoria’s oldest pub, Devonshire Arms Hotel, 1843; Lyddy polish factory, Eric Nicholls, 1923; a world church HQ, Christian Israelite Sanctuary, 1861 (original blank windows); a rare hotel not on a corner, The Standard, 1865 (facade 1926, Harry Norris).

A glimpse from a tram showing the front corner of a rendered house with tiered Roman Doric and Ionic capitals in its arched front porch, with the brick side of a shop in front of it

A demolition on #FitzroySt #StKilda reveals a glimpse of one of the original C19th mansions now hidden by the shops built along the street in their front gardens.