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Hobart: Australia's Heritage Capital

Architecture

How to read a building

As part of the Open House Hobart weekend in November each year, I lead a walking tour of the Hobart CBD, called What Style is it? On this walk we explore and discover Hobart’s fabulous colonial architecture of the CBD. Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsNovember 13, 2019 ago
Buildings

“A more hopeless class of subjects?”

A seminar in Hobart on female convicts: In 1859, the Commissioners of the Hospital for the Insane at New Norfolk wrote, ‘It must be borne in mind that a large majority of the patients … confined in the asylum have Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsSeptember 18, 2019 ago
RSV Aurora Australis
Events

Happy 30th birthday to the big orange roughy.

On Sept 18th 2019, RSV Aurora Australis will turn 30. Within a year RSV Aurora Australis will be replaced by the RSV Nuyina. Nuyina (noy-yee-nah) means southern lights in palawa kani, the language of the Tasmanian Aborigines. Southern lights are Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsSeptember 6, 2019 ago
People

Getting rid of the Governor

Over the past 216 years Tasmania has had 55 men and 1 woman in the role of governor. Originally the role was titled Lieutenant Governor (1803 – 1855). With responsible self-government, and the name change from Van Diemen’s Land to Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsAugust 15, 2019 ago
People

Get to church!

In the early days of Hobart, the only religious instructor permitted in the colony was the Church of England preacher, Robert Knopwood, who was in the employ of the governor. British settlement was seen as opportunity to instill in the Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 16, 2019 ago
Buildings

Macquarie Street: number 103 – Commercial Bank (former)

1866
Victorian Era
Academic Style

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 9, 2019 ago
Buildings

Elizabeth Street: number 18 – Colonial Mutual Life

1936
Inter-War Era
Stripped Classical Style

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 9, 2019 ago
Architecture

Tennis, anyone?

Through the warm summer months, Hobartians find themselves keen to spend as much time outdoors as possible. The cry goes up: get as much sun as you can! We are aided and abetted in this project by obligingly long daylight Read more…

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 3, 2019 ago
Buildings

Elizabeth Street: number 9 – General Post Office

1905
Federation Era
Edwardian Baroque

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 2, 2019 ago
Buildings

Argyle Street: number 16 – Maritime Museum

1907
Victorian Era
Free Classical Style

By Robyn Everist, 6 yearsJanuary 2, 2019 ago

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