Category: Places
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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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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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‘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
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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
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