Category: Buildings
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Windows to the Past: Exhibiting the Story of Melbourne’s International House
Windows to the Past is a new project aimed at celebrating some of the historically significant buildings at Melbourne’s International House (IH). The project will create permanent exhibits at IH focussed on its three earliest purpose-built accommodation buildings: Clunies, Wadham, and Scheps. The exhibits will comprise photographs, illustrations, and building plans from the International House […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2025/04/08/windows-to-the-past
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The Dining Hall
The dining hall is a significant place in any residential college, providing not just meals but also memories. When International House opened in 1957, the dining hall was much smaller and more formal than it is today. ‘Men’ (as the residents were all male at that time) were required to dress formally for the evening […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2024/04/17/the-dining-hall
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Greycourt
International House’s ‘Greycourt’ stands out from the mid-century modern wings Clunies and Wadham and the quirky 70s Scheps. So how did Greycourt come to be part of IH? Greycourt, designed by the architects Henderson & Smart (Victorian Heritage Database, 2023), was built in 1882 and originally housed a school: Carlton College. Under the direction of […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2023/11/03/greycourt
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Ian Clunies Ross Wing
International House’s first accommodation building, now known as the Ian Clunies Ross Wing, had its beginnings when a group of University of Melbourne students and members of the broader community began discussing ways to ease some of the housing problems faced by the city’s international students. You can read more about the path to Clunies […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2023/04/05/ian-clunies-ross-wing
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The path to Clunies
The wet and windy conditions of 24 May 1958 did little to stifle the atmosphere of optimism at the official opening of International House’s first accommodation wing. Ian Clunies Ross (1899-1959), after whom the wing was named in 1962 (International House Council Minutes, 1962), commended all those who “worked for so long and so nobly” […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2022/12/16/the-path-to-clunies
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