Melbourne Teachers College Tartarian Hunters

This false history gets boring after you read the same basic story over and over and over again. Why build such elaborate buildings for such tiny purposes? But here we go again....

Melbournes Teachers College
The 1888 Building (Former Teachers’ College) eventuated from talks between the Education Department and Minister for Lands for the establishment of a college for training teachers, beginning in 1877. After years of negotiation, the land was eventually handed over from University property to the Education Department in 1887. Constructed in three stages between 1889 and 1892 by the Public Works Department (PWD, forerunner of the Metropolitan Board of Works), the building became a boarding school for University High School in 1893 after it was leased following government cuts. The building returned to the Education Department in 1898, reopening in 1900 as a training institution for teachers. The college and land returned to the University in 1989.

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