The Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens

The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1701x1191, 1324 KB) The Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens, Melbourne. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1701x1191, 1324 KB) The Royal Exhibition Building in the Carlton Gardens, Melbourne. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated, and confirmed, for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. ... Schematic plan of Hoddles allotments for the village of Melbourne, March,1837 Each block was further subdivided into 20 allotments each 76 perches in area Map of central Melbourne Melbournes CBD. The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ... Carlton is an inner north-east suburb of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 3. ... Emblems: Pink heath (floral) helmeted honeyeater (bird) Leadbeaters possum (faunal) Motto: Peace and Prosperity Slogan or Nickname: Garden State, The Place To Be, On The Move Other Australian states and territories Capital Melbourne Government Governor Premier Const. ...

Description

The 26 hectare (64 acre) site contains the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning children's playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast. According to the World Heritage listing: The Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria. The Royal Exhibition Building, viewed from the west The Royal Exhbition Building, showing the fountain on the southern or Carlton Gardens side of the building The Royal Exhibition Building is located in Melbourne, Australia. ... The Melbourne Museum is located in the Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nicholson Street is a street in inner Melbourne. ...

Horticulture

The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian era horticulture with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park. The northern section contains the Museum, tennis courts, maintenaince depot and curator's cottage, and the children's playground designed as a Victorian maze. The Latin words hortus (garden plant) and cultura (culture) together form horticulture, classically defined as the culture or growing of garden plants. ... Binomial name Quercus robur The Pedunculate Oak or English Oak (Quercus robur L.) is native to most of Europe, and to Asia Minor to the Caucasus, and also to parts of North Africa. ... Binomial name Populus alba L. The White Poplar (Populus alba) is an aberrant species of poplar, most closely related to the aspens (Populus sect. ... Species See text. ... Species See text. ... Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ... Species Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani    var. ... Binomial name Quercus cerris L. The Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris) is an oak native to southern Europe and Asia Minor. ... Species See text Araucaria is a genus of coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. ... Binomial name Ficus macrophylla Desf. ...

The listing in the Victorian heritage says in part: The Carlton Gardens are of scientific (botanical) significance for their outstanding collection of plants, including conifers, palms, evergreen and deciduous trees, many of which have grown to an outstanding size and form. The elm avenues of Ulmus procera(English Elm) and Ulmus hollandica (Dutch Elm) are significant as few examples remain world wide due to Dutch elm disease. The Garden contains a rare specimen of Acmena ingens (an Australian Lillypilly), only five other specimens are known, an uncommon Harpephyllum caffrum and the largest recorded in Victoria, Taxodium distichum, and outstanding specimens of Chamaecyparis funebris and Ficus macrophylla, south west of the Royal Exhibition Building. Binomial name Ulmus minor var. ... Dutch elm disease is a fungal disease of elm trees, originally native to Asia. ... Species Taxodium ascendens - Pond Cypress Taxodium distichum - Bald Cypress Taxodium mucronatum - Montezuma Cypress Taxodium is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, one of several genera in the family commonly known as cypresses. ... Species Chamaecyparis formosensis Chamaecyparis lawsoniana Chamaecyparis obtusa Chamaecyparis pisifera Chamaecyparis taiwanensis Chamaecyparis thyoides The genus Chamaecyparis is one of several genera within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress (disambiguation). ... Species About 800, including: Ficus altissima Ficus americana Ficus aurea Ficus benghalensis- Indian Banyan Ficus benjamina- Weeping Fig Ficus broadwayi Ficus carica- Common Fig Ficus citrifolia Ficus coronata Ficus drupacea Ficus elastica Ficus godeffroyi Ficus grenadensis Ficus hartii Ficus lyrata Ficus macbrideii Ficus macrophylla- Moreton Bay Fig Ficus microcarpa- Chinese...

Wildlife includes possums, ducks and ducklings in spring, Tawny Frogmouths, and other urban environment birds. Superfamilies and Families Phalangeroidea Burramyidae Phalangeridae Petauroida Pseudocheiridae Petauridae Tarsipedidae Acrobatidae A possum is any of about 63 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupials native to Australia. ... Binomial name Podargus strigoides Latham, 1802 The Tawny Frogmouth, Podargus strigoides, is an Australian variety of Frogmouth found throughout the Australian mainland, Tasmania and southern New Guinea. ...

The gardens contain three important fountains: the Hochgurtel Fountain, designed for the 1880 Exhibition by sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel; the French Fountain; and the Westgarth Drinking Fountain. 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Carlton Gardens south

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History

• 1839 - Superintendent Charles La Trobe first planned the site as part of the green belt encircling Melbourne which included Batman's Hill, Flagstaff Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens and the King's Domain.

• 1856 - Edward La Trobe Bateman designed the original layout of the ornamental gardens.

• 1870s - The gardens were redesigned for the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880 by the states leading landscape designers and horticulturalists including Clement Hodgkinson, William Sangster, Nicholas Bickford, and William Guilfoyle.

• 1880 - Exhibition Building completed for the Melbourne International Exhibition that year. Temporary annexes to house some of the exhibition in the northern section were demolished after the exhibition closed on 30 April 1881.

• 1888 - Melbourne Centennial Exhibition to celebrate a century of European settlement in Australia.

• 1891 - The curator's Lodge was completed and lived in by John Guilfoyle.

• 1901 - First Parliament of Australia opens in the Exhibition Building. The west annex of the Building becomes the site of the Victorian Parliament for the next 27 years.

• 1919 - buildings became an emergency hospital for influenza epidemic victims

• 1928 - Perimeter fence removed leaving the bluestone footings.

• Second World War the buildings were used by the RAAF.

• 1948 to 1961 - part of the complex was used as a migrant reception centre.

• 2001 - Taylor Cullity Lethlean with Mary Jeavons wins a landscape award for design and building a new children's playground of elegant yet robust resolution. The Jury described the design as a distinctive and unified design that respects its historic setting and addresses the demands of creative play for spatial and visual variety.

• July 2004 - After several years of lobbying by the Melbourne City Council, The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, were inscribed on the World Heritage List at the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Suzhou, China.

The Exhibition Building is still used for exhibitions, including for the annual Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, opened in 1996 at Southbank, provides more modern facilities and has become Melbourn'e prime location for exhibitions and conventions. It also hosts the exams for University of Melbourne in recent years. Charles La Trobe (March 20, 1801 - December 4, 1875) was the first lieutenant-governor of the state of Victoria. ... The Batmans Hill in Melbourne was named for the Tasmanian adventurer and grazier John Batman. ... Flagstaff Gardens is the oldest park in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, first established in 1862. ... Cooks Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens. ... The Treasury Gardens consist of 58,000 square metres on the south-eastern side of the Melbourne Central Business District, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Kings Domain is part of the Domain Parklands in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on the south side of the Yarra River, that incorporates the Alexandra Gardens, Queen Victoria Gardens and the Royal Botanic Gardens. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... Clement Hodgkinson, 1818 - 1893, was born in England, and became a notable Australian naturalist, explorer and surveyor. ... William Robert Guilfoyle (December 8, 1840 - June 25, 1912) was a landscape gardener and botanist in Victoria, Australia, acknowledged as the architect of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne and was responsible for the design of many parks and gardens in Melbourne and regional Victoria. ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... This article is about the continent. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Parliament House Canberra: The main entrance and the flag The Parliament of Australia is the legislative branch of Australia. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is held in early April each year, in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia). ... The Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre is located in Southbank to the south of the CBD. The Centre was built as a replacement for the Royal Exhibition Building and it consists of the Convention Centre and the Exhibition Centre, both were opened at diffenrent times. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Southbank, across the Yarra from Melbourne City Southbank is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia in the state of Victoria. ...

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