Category: Buildings

  1. Fifty years of Scheps

    Larika Desai Larika Desai was a resident of International House from 2018 to 2020. In 2021, she undertook research into the Scheps Wing as part of an industry internship for the Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage at the University of Melbourne. As early as 1967, Melbourne newspapers started publishing articles with appeals and particulars […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2022/04/08/fifty-years-of-scheps

  2. ‘The most urgent need’: The IH Library

    When the first residents arrived at International House in 1957, there was no library as such. A small collection of books, newspapers and magazines near the common room provided reading materials, but a library was yet to come. Interviewed by the newspaper the Warrnambool Standard in 1957, the first Warden of International House Brian Jones […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2022/03/24/the-ih-library

  3. George Hicks Building

    George Lyndon Hicks was a resident at International House from 1958 to 1959. He first became interested in aspects of Asian politics and culture at school; his interests expanded while he was studying Arts at the University of Melbourne (Larkins, 2018, p. 27). In 1959, George Hicks became involved in the Immigration Reform Group, a […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2021/09/13/george-hicks-building

  4. The Samuel Wadham Wing: ‘A microcosm of the world’

    The second purpose-built accommodation wing at International House, ‘Wadham’, opened in 1963. Planning for Wadham had begun in earnest in 1960, when International House launched an appeal to raise money for a new building. The goal was to raise £250,000 (equivalent to more than 7.5 million dollars in 2020 1) to construct accommodation for an […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2021/03/22/the-samuel-wadham-wing

  5. What happened to the squash court?

    Now demolished, the International House squash court was on the site now occupied by the Multi-Purpose Study Room. Funding for the court was provided by the Sunshine Foundation (a charitable foundation established by the family of the industrialist H. V. McKay) and Dame Hilda Stevenson (H. V. McKay’s daughter and the foundation’s chair). The court […]

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/10/10/what-happened-to-the-squash-court

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