Category: Places
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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
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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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When did the Founders’ Building open?
Built on the site of the old International House squash court, the building we know as Founders’ was completed in November 2004 and opened on 11 February 2005 (Larkins, 2018, 165).1 But the building wasn’t yet called Founders’; instead it was simply the ‘New Building’ (Munro, 2008, 3). The building was named in 2008, after […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/27/when-did-the-founders-building-open
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Why are there three buildings in the picture?
This promotional postcard held in the International Archives shows three buildings all of which appear to be ‘Clunies’. Early discussions about International House included plans and costings for three wings. Each was to house around forty-two residents with one building only for women. Insufficient funds meant that only one wing (pictured below, shortly after its […] -
Where did IHers go shopping?
Brunswick’s Barkly Square has long been a popular shopping destination. But what were the shopping options for IHers in the 1960s and 1970s? In 1961, the first Selamat Datang recommended a group of shops on Royal Parade near ‘Naughtons’: a newsagent, grocer, chemist, and barber. Closer to IH there was ‘The Dugout’, a food shop […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/international-house-melbourne/2020/08/07/history-mystery-shopping
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