Wheelers Hill
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| Coordinates: 37°53′56″S 145°10′59″E / 37.899°S 145.183°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | Victoria | ||||||||||||
| City | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 10.3 km2 (4.0 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 20,652 (2021 census)[2] | ||||||||||||
| • Density | 2,005/km2 (5,193/sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 3150 | ||||||||||||
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Wheelers Hill is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the 2021 census.[2]
At 152m above sea level it includes one of the highest points in metropolitan Melbourne.[3]
History
Wheelers Hill was named after James Wheeler in 1888, who was an early settler in the Dandenong area.[3]
The Wheelers Hill Hotel was a post office and stopping point for farmers before a 6 to 8-hour drive to the city by horse to sell their goods. The Wheelers Mansion was destroyed by a fire in the late 1920s. The house was located somewhere to the south of the Wheelers Hill Library. The Post Office opened on 1 January 1869 and was called Mulgrave until 1888.[4]
Sport
- Mulgrave Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve
- Eastern Devils Women's Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve
Education
Secondary Schools
Primary Schools
Public library and art gallery
The Museum of Australian Photography and the Wheelers Hill branch of the Monash Public Library Service co-located in a building at the corner of Jells Road and Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill. The architect of the original 1990 Gallery was Harry Seidler.[5] Even though Seidler had designed a further whole cultural precinct beyond the gallery,[6]
See also
- City of Waverley – Wheelers Hill was previously within this former local government area.
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wheelers Hill (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wheelers Hill (Suburbs and Localities)". 2021 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
- ^ a b Dubecki, Larissa (30 July 2019). "Wheelers Hill: The surprising Melbourne suburb with million-dollar views". Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ Phoenix Auctions History, Post Office List, retrieved 1 April 2021
- ^ Whole cultural precinct designed by Harry Seidler likely in late 1987, as the commissioned Max Dupain photos of the model of the whole scheme date to February 1988. The Gallery was completed in 1990.
- ^ See "Waverley Cultural Centre" (scheme of 1988) page 356 of Harry Seidler: Four Decades of Architecture by Kenneth Frampton and Philip Drew (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992). This scheme was highly praised by modern architecture writer Kenneth Frampton in book's essay "1965-1991 Isostatic Architecture" being pages 86-111 at page 110