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Victoria (state)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Wilson Hall, 1885 - 1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3087D/22
Scope and Contents

199 x 146 mm. An exterior view of the hall, a building in English perpendicular Gothic style, modelled on Oxford and Cambridge College lines, and designed by Joseph Reed. The cost was borne by Sir Samuel Wilson. The building was completed in 1879, and described by Sir Redmond Barry as being ‘florid but pure in taste’.

Dates: 1885 - 1891
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