| House | $1,454,900  |
| Unit | $677,300 |
| Land | $948,300  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Abbotsford | $1,207,300  |
| Collingwood | $1,134,500 |
| East Melbourne | $3,052,500 |
| Hawthorn | $2,343,700 |
| Kew | $2,327,900 |
| Melbourne | $590,000 |
| South Yarra | $1,883,300 |
| House | $882 |
| Unit | $579 |
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| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - January 1, 2014 Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Bowen Street, Egan Street, Erin Street, Freeman Street, Highett Street, Hoddle Street, Kingston Place, Leeds Street, Lennox Street, Moorhouse Street, Muir Street, Normanby Place. Statement of Significance What is significant? Early subdivision and development The West Richmond Heritage Overlay Area is part of the two allotments purchased from the Crown in 1839 by William Highett and R W Wrede. Highett, an early settler from Tasmania, was a squatter, merchant and banker. In the early 1850s, Highett erected the mansion Yalcowinna on the south side of Erin Street, where the Epworth hospital now stands. William Hull purchased a section of Highett's allotment and built a large stone residence in the early 1850s on the Bridge Road frontage. Next door was George Jame's residence (both demolished). (139) Opposite Yalcowinna, on the north side of Erin Street, a pair of semi-detached houses was built in the 1850s-1860s. One was owned by the pioneer Presbyterian the Rev. Dr Adam Cairns and the other by merchant William Muir (see Muir St). R W Wrede immediately sold his 1839 allotment to James Hodgson (one of the first members of the Legislative Assembly).(140)By 1855 it had been subdivided into the present street layouts. (141) There were two houses on the south side of Highett Street at this time, set back from the street with formal gardens, as are the existing houses. The Edwardian-era houses at 44 and 46 Highett Street have early wings at the rear as an indication of this earlier phase. 1870s-1880s development In 1889 the mansion Yooralbyn (29 Erin St, later renamed Elim) was built for merchant William Harper (see HO257). Further subdivision occurred on the north side of Erin Street in the 1870s and the south side was subdivided in the early 1880s. In the 1880s the mansion Millew was built for Robert Hoddle's widow near to Yalcowinna. This was leased by the Salvation Army in 1903 as the Bethesda hospital, then purchased and extended by them in 1912. On the south corner of Erin and Hoddle Streets is the unusual Urbrae (171 Hoddle Street, on the Victorian Heritage Register), the combined mansion houses of Dr. Tom Boyd and Dr. William Boyd. By the late 1890s the MMBW Detail Plans showed most of the area developed as residential, with the accumulation of private subdivisions (and the later imposition of the railway |
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