Fitzroy North, Victoria
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| Fitzroy North Melbourne, Victoria |
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 Fitzroy Memorial Rotunda, in Edinburgh Gardens |
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| Population: | 11,069 (2006) [1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3068 | ||||||||||||
| Area: | 2.4 km² (0.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| Property Value: | AUD $547,700 [2] | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 4 km (2 mi) NE of Melbourne | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | City of Yarra | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Brunswick, Richmond | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Melbourne | ||||||||||||
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Fitzroy North is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is mostly in the Local Government Area of the City of Yarra, with a few streets in the Local Government Area of the City of Moreland.
Housing stock includes many fine one and two storey terraces, many dating to the late Victorian period and including characteristic ironwork, verandahs, and stone embellishments. This is one of Melbourne's finest, and most expensive, inner-city locations. There is a large park called Edinburgh Gardens with a famous football oval, bordered by Freeman Street, Brunswick Street, St. Georges Road and Alfred Crescent. The Brunswick Street Oval was the home ground until 1967 of the Fitzroy Football Club playing in the Victorian Football League. A linear park, incorporating a section of the Capital City Trail bike path, runs along much of the northern edge of the suburb, on the easement for the Inner Circle railway line, which closed in 1948.
Merri Creek delineates the border between Fitzroy North and the neighbouring suburb of Northcote. Smith Street and Queen's Parade form the border with Clifton Hill.
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[edit] Description
Fitzroy North (often called North Fitzroy) is theoretically joined to Fitzroy, but in reality the two are as separate as any suburbs in the inner city. They were always bisected by the width of Alexandra Parade (earlier Reilly Street), but with the building of the Eastern Freeway in the 1970s and its connection the Parade, the volume of traffic became an overwhelming barrier. Fitzroy North is also distinct in character, with less commercial activity, wider, quieter, leafier streets, and clear delineation to the east provided by the green Merri Creek corridor.
[edit] Residential Architecture
Most of Fitzroy North is single and double storey Victorian and Edwardian housing, comprising rows of terraces with a mixture of semi-attached and freestanding houses on small to moderately sized blocks. Large parts of the suburb are protected by heritage controls. The suburb is relatively intact and consistent in character, having had far less industrial and commercial development in its formative years than its southern namesake.
Fitzroy North also has some distinctive apartment complexes, mostly built within the last 15 years. One, at 682 Nicholson Street, is officially called Nicholson Gardens, but is nick-named Melrose Place by its many student and overseas residents due to its design. Another, on St Georges Road at Park Street, is a redevelopment of the old Fire Station, with an extension at the back reminiscent of three concrete grain silos.
[edit] Commerce
The main commercial activity in Fitzroy North is on Brunswick Street, St. Georges Road and the northern side of Queen's Parade, the latter having particularly wide footpaths for a Melbourne commercial strip. Piedimontes, at the corner of St. Georges Road and Scotchmer Street is a well-established independent supermarket well-known for its continental delicatessen.
[edit] Transport
To get to North Fitzroy from the Melbourne CBD, you can travel on the
- Number 96 tram from Bourke Street, along Nicholson Street or the
- Number 112 tram from Collins Street, along Brunswick Street and St. Georges Road , or the more "colourful" route on
- Number 86 tram from Bourke Street, which also travels a short distance along Nicholson Street, turns at Gertrude Street, turns again into Smith Street and again into Queens Parade.
- Alternatively, take the train to Rushall Station, on the Epping Line. Rushall Station is located on Rushall Crescent, in the north east of the suburb.
[edit] Education
The suburb contains three schools - Fitzroy High School, Fitzroy Community School[3] and North Fitzroy Primary School. North Fitzroy Primary School has received state media attention for its canteen's healthy menu.[4] It also has a LOTE program for Italian language which is undertaken by all students, and hosts large Italian-related events such as Carnevale.
[edit] See also
- City of Fitzroy - the former local government area of which Fitzroy North was a part.
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). Fitzroy North (State Suburb). 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved on 2007-09-26.
- ^ Fitzroy North, accessed 3 June 2007
- ^ FCS - Fitzroy Community School, Independent Alternative Primary School
- ^ Wilmoth, Peter. "It's all fit for eating at North Fitz", The Age, 21 August 2005. Retrieved on 2007-06-03.
[edit] External links
- Fitzroy North, Victoria is at coordinates Coordinates:
- History of North Fitzroy
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