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The Fitzroy Gardens are 26 hectares (64 acres) located on the southeastern edge of the Melbourne central business district in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Clarendon Street, Albert Street, Lansdowne Street, and Wellington Parade with the Treasury Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west.
The Fitzroy Gardens are one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia designed by Clement Hodgkinson, located across Lansdowne Street from Treasury Gardens. Within the gardens are Captain Cook's Cottage, an ornamental lake, kiosk and café, Model Tudor village, the fairy tree, and a tree scarred by the original Wurundjeri ...
Cooks' Cottage, also known as Captain Cook's Cottage, [7] is located in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia.The cottage was constructed in 1755 in the English village of Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, by the parents of Captain James Cook, James and Grace Cook, [8] and was brought to Melbourne in 1934 by the Australian philanthropist Sir Russell Grimwade.
Fitzroy Memorial Rotunda, built 1925 in honour of Fitzroy casualties of World War I Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, 1935. The population of Fitzroy in 1901 was 31,610. [17] Before World War I, Fitzroy was a working-class neighbourhood, with a concentration of political radicals already living there. Post-war immigration into the suburb resulted in ...
A Statue of James Cook is located by Cooks' Cottage in Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne. It was originally created by Marc Clark in 1973 and moved to its current location in 1997. It was erected in 1974 to help promote the housing estate of Endeavour Hills in south-eastern Melbourne. [ 1 ]
The sign reads:The Renaissance style figure of a river god was created by Victoria’s most important sculptor of the period. The fountain concept was by Clement Hodgkinson, Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey and designer of the Fitzroy Gardens.
Ola Cohn (born Carola Cohn; 25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist, author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture in a modernist style, and famous for her Fairies Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. [1] [2] [3]
English Elm Tree avenue, Fitzroy Gardens. East Melbourne has many impressive Victorian era gardens with well-established plantings, the largest of which are the Treasury Gardens and the Fitzroy Gardens. Yarra Park in Jolimont is used for picnicking and, controversially, car parking for the MCG. Parliament Gardens, a small square with a fountain ...