Rutherglen Heritage Walk
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Rutherglen Heritage Walk A Self-Guided Tour of Rutherglen’s Historic Streetscapes www.rutherglenvic.com 2 Redefining the traditions of one of the world’s best fortified wine regions We bear the name of one of the oldest and most recognised wine regions in Australia and our mission is to produce the most regionally typical premium wines most suited to the Rutherglen region. Our wines are produced entirely from fruit grown on our own Rutherglen vineyards. Rutherglen Estates is internationally celebrated for producing inspired alternative varietals and blends from Viognier, Marsanne, Fiano, Arneis, Savagnin, Shiraz, Sangiovese, Mourvedre, Grenache and Durif. Proudly regional | Estate grown Quality | Innovation & personality Cellar Door open 7 days 10am to 6pm 13–35 Drummond Street, Rutherglen Victoria 02 6032 7999 [email protected] www.rutherglenestates.com.au 01 Rutherglen Heritage Walk File name: heritage walk_A5_dec2011 For further information contact Tammie Miiller 02 6032 7999 C M Y K In the beginning... The area around Rutherglen was originally settled in 1836 by a number of squatters; John Foord, John Crisp from Wahgunyah, James Lindsay Brown, Thomas Clarke from Gooramadda and Joseph Bould from Boorhaman. The discovery of gold some twenty years later in the Where else nearby Chiltern area caused a great deal of excitement in the world and saw the beginning of exploration in the vicinity of what is now the corner of Main and Drummond Streets. could you Within weeks of the initial gold strike on September name a town 9th 1860, thousands had moved to the settlement. The entrepreneurial John Wallace anticipated the needs of the for the cost expanding settlement well and positioned the first major of a few establishment, the Star Hotel in its choice Main Street beers? location. The town grew quickly and by 1861 it had 21 hotels, a newspaper, three schools, a police station and a Over a few population of 20,000 people. Although it was gold which drinks, one drove the initial thrust of immigration, it is wine which John Wallace has made Rutherglen famous today. The first planting of was told grapes for wine in the district was undertaken by John “Shout the Lindsay Brown in the 1850s and more vineyards followed, whole bar after successes in overseas shows and a growing export and you can demand. call this town By 1890, Rutherglen was producing a quarter of whatever you Australia’s wine. However, tragedy struck in the form of like!”. And so he phylloxera and by the late 1890s, Rutherglen wineries, did, calling the along with many others throughout Australia, lost their new goldfields vines to the dreaded root-destroying pest which remains township in the soil to this day. Rutherglen after his native Follow the map and take a leisurely 90 minute stroll home town in around the Rutherglen township. Look up and see wonderful lead light and patterned glass, simple but Scotland. elegant features of a bygone era, and take in the style and structure of Victorian buildings reflecting the town’s long history of wealth and hard work. www.rutherglenvic.com 3 BARKLY ST D R S Rutherglen Map E H 38 A 37 N CULBERTSON ST HUNTER ST HUNTER N 36 REID ST HIGH35 ST 23 22 34 MAIN ST 2528 33 29 31 39 DRUMMOND ST 24 32 MURRAY ST 26 27 30 9 MURRAY VALLEY HWY 21 10 6 40 11 8 7 5 18 4 MURRAY VALLEY HWY 20 3 1 17 MURRAY ST 2 19 13 MAIN ST 14 12 16 15 CHURCH ST Legend 1 57 Main Street 22 Cairn commemorating the Discovery T 2 68 Main Street S of Gold 3 70 Main Street H 23 13-35 Drummond St IG 4 76/78 Main Street H 24 148-152 Main Street F TO CHILTERN & O 5 80 Main Street 25 143-145 Main Street, Grahams R 6 81 Main Street READY ST T HUME FWY Building U N 7 84 Main Street 26 120 Main Street E 8 A Pub with its own Morgue 27 Hitching Rail, outside 116 Main M Street S E T 9 83 Main Street 28 113 Main Street, Rutherglen ApothecarE y - H S 10 92 Main Street D 29 111 Main Street, Sun Printing Office P R A R 11 147 High Street E N D 30 104 Main Street IN G R 12 Rutherglen State and Higher S G ID 31 105 Main Street T E H Elementary SchoolR No. 522 U B S 32 130 High St R 13 The CommonS School U 33 High Street, Drinking Fountain S N O T 14 157 High StreetA - The Masonic Lodge H 34 108 High Street R ID R D 15 St Stephen’sR Rectory 35 100 High Street E E 16 RutherglenH Court House T 36 92 High Street 17 RutherglenS Memorial Hall H HERRONS RD G 37 Corner High and Culbertson Streets, 18 Rutherglen Memorial Gardens U Mount Carmel Convent A 19 Rutherglen Swimming Pool L 38 The Water Tower 20 Lake King and Viewing PlatformS 39 The Wallace Cairn 21 Rutherglen Golf Club 40 Rutherglen Railway Station TO SPRINGHURST & HUME FWY 4 Rutherglen Heritage Walk We suggest you start at... 1 57 Main Street Cross over at the roundabout to This building, which now houses the left hand (south) side of Main the Rutherglen Wine Experience Street and commence your historic and Visitor Information Centre, was walk. One of the first things you erected in 1862 as a drapery and may notice is a red and white tiled general store. The Aitken & Fullerton entrance in front of a vacant lot. sign displayed on the wall comes This lot was once the ‘Red Boot from the original grocery delivery Shop’ which was, naturally enough, cart and the original building a footware store that dated to finished where the information the 1860’s. It was demolished counter now stands. It was around sometime after WWII, and no this area that the cashier sat receiving payment for purchase trace remained until a wild storm via an old shuttle wire system. uncovered the tiled entrance in the Additions and the verandah were mid 2000’s. added in 1896. 2 68 Main Street Built in 1896 as the Standard Bakery by Conrad Huhs, a German immigrant, the building originally had a full upstairs balcony. A typical Victorian building of considerable style. Rutherglen Wine Experience The Rutherglen Standard Bakery www.rutherglenvic.com 5 Next door on this same side is a 4 76/78 Main Street unique example of architectural style Formerly the Glen Bakery, this shop, at: residence and bake house was erected in 1932 by Alex Highland. 3 70 Main Street The facade, lead-light and wrought iron depict the Art Deco building The original site of the Crown Hotel. style of the day. The Rutherglen The current building was built in Brass Band was formed on this site 1906 as a Doctor’s Surgery and in 1885. residence for Dr H Bush. It remained a Doctor’s Surgery until 1983. The pressed metal verandah sides are 5 80 Main Street a very unusual feature and were This building was erected in 1899 for probably requested by the original the Bank of Australasia and opened owner. for business in January 1900. The style, size and layout of the building Continue walking, taking note of the was typical for this company’s small exterior of Number 74 Main Street, to medium size branches. where the wall tiles are typical for a In 1951 the Bank of Australasia and butcher shop of the 1930s. Notice the the Union Bank of Australia merged blue tiles on the wall at each end of the to form the Australia and New window depicting the various sources Zealand Bank (ANZ) and the building of the products available for sale. continued to operate as an ANZ branch until 1996. Bank of Australasia circa 1910 6 Rutherglen Heritage Walk Opposite on the north side of Main 8 A Pub with its own Morgue Street, you will find a double-storey This wonderful hotel was designed building. by Gordon & Gordon and built by a Benalla builder George Diggle for 6 81 Main Street Mr S P Gollings. Opened in 1894, it replaced a 14 room wooden hotel Built in 1860, this property was that had stood on the site from the the first two-storied building early 1860s. Three hundred and fifty in Rutherglen. A number of thousand bricks were required to photographic glass negatives found complete the work! At night a large in the ceiling of this building are acetylene lamp outside the front now on display at the Historical door was turned on, lighting the Museum. street and the laneway opposite to encourage travellers to head for the As you continue to walk along Main hotel. The lamp is currently in the Street, on your left is: Historical Society’s care and may be viewed in the Common School Museum. 7 84 Main Street If you look through the carriage This single fronted Victorian shop gates you will see a small brick was once a photographic studio building to the left. This was the where Henry Hugen operated his town mortuary and dates back to business from 1904 to 1916. Look the early 1860s. The usual custom in up at the verandah roof and you will the country was for the local hotel see the original photographic sign. to offer a room, when required for the coroner and undertaker to carry A few metres further and you will out their work. It seems Mr S. P.