| House | $1,883,300  |
| Unit | $799,000 |
| Land | $987,500  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Burnley | $1,272,500 |
| Cremorne | $1,323,300 |
| Melbourne | $590,000 |
| Prahran | $1,627,600 |
| Richmond | $1,454,900 |
| Toorak | $2,045,700 |
| House | $1,130 |
| Unit | $636 |
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| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - September 16, 1999 What is significant? Melbourne High School was erected in Alexandra Avenue, South Yarra in 1927 to designs by the chief architect of the Public Works Department, Edwin Evan Smith and departmental architect, Raymond Clayton Davey. Located on a twelve and a half acre site, known originally as Forrest Hill, it was designed to accommodate about seven hundred boys. The school was the successor of the Model and Training School established in Spring Street in 1854 on the site now occupied by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The Model School became the first state secondary school in 1905, initially known as the Melbourne Continuation School, and renamed Melbourne High School in 1912. The condition of the school building, and the lack of space and facilities, resulted in a search for a new site for the school after World War One. It was not until October 1927 that two schools were formed, Melbourne Boys High School and Melbourne Girls High School, with the senior boys finally moving from Spring Street to the new site in South Yarra that year. The girls remained at Spring Street and moved to MacRobertson Girls' High School, Albert Park in 1934. Municipalities were eager to attract the new elite state high school facility and a highly prominent site was selected for its construction. It was part of seventeen acres purchased and settled by Charles Forrest in 1840, and included a section of elevated land and adjoining low-lying swamp land. In February 1926, the builder G.S. Gay began construction of the school on the prominent, elevated section of land to the east of the site. The school was officially opened in June 1928. Frank Tate, Director of Education from 1902 to 1928, and Alexander Peacock, Minister of Public Instruction, were both instrumental in the establishment of the school and gargoyles of these two men are placed either side of the front door. The Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools, Peter Martin Hansen, had undertaken a study tour of overseas schools in 1922-23 and was impressed by both the popular Collegiate Gothic style and the incorporation of landscape into the design of schools and universities in the U.S.A. This was to have a profound influence on the design of Melbourne High School, which clearly relates to the work of William B. Ittner, in particular the design of Grover Cleveland High School in St Louis, Missouri (c1915). The main school building is constructed of bricks which were made on site from local clay. Contrasting render is used to highlight openings, crenellations, and panels, and the building is roofed in slate. Designed in the Collegiate Gothic style, the symmetrical front facade contains a central tower entrance bay with octagonal crenellated turrets, and flanking parapetted wings which terminate in protruding end bays. |
| 07 Oct 2010 |
| Temporary use of the land as a heliport in a Public Use Zone |
| (Source: City of Stonnington, reference no: 0818/10) |
| 07 Oct 2010 |
| Heli - Port for Melbourne Cup Carnival |
| (Source: City of Stonnington, reference no: 0820/10) |
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