Gibbons
East Melbourne, Gipps Street 013 - Burchett
built 1869 by W H Kelly for self - 8 room house.
2870 John Kelly - owner, John King - occupant
1874 occupied by Sydney Gibbons, Fellow Chemical Society and analyst.
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East Melbourne, Gipps Street 015, Faraday House
Two storeyed, single fronted house with cast iron balcony, in the style of a terrace house.
The 1870 Rate Books list John Kelly as the owner, and describe the house as having '6 rooms bathroom 2 kitchens servants room and shed'. Thereafter it is listed simply as 8 rooms. In 1873 William Sydney Gibbons appears for the first time as the owner. He lived there with his family until his death in 1917. Gibbons was an analyst, and for many years, the government analyst.
East Melbourne, Hotham Street 079
One of three similar double fronted houses, single storey to the street but with a two storey section at the rear.
The builder of the house and its first owner was Thomas Murray. The house was initially built with six rooms but by 1888 had increased to eight rooms. Murray owned the house until his death in 1892. According to the Inventory of Assets in the probate papers, as well as the eight rooms the house had a bathroom, pantry and outhouses and was let at £6.10.0 per month.