Elsternwick

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coordinates
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pop_year
pop_footnotes
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dist110
location1Melbourne
dist23
location2Port Phillip
dist32
location3Caulfield Racecourse
near-nwElwood
near-nSt Kilda East
near-neCaulfield North
near-wRipponlea, Brighton
near-eCaulfield
near-swBrighton
near-sGardenvale
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| type = suburb | name = Elsternwick | city = Melbourne | state = vic | image = Shops - Elsternwick.jpg | caption = Victorian shopfronts on the corner of Glen Huntly & St Georges Roads | lga = City of Glen Eira | alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne | coordinates = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in metropolitan Melbourne | postcode = 3185 | pop = 10,887 | pop_year = | pop_footnotes = | elevation = 26 | area = 2.6 | est = 1861 | stategov = Caulfield | fedgov = Goldstein | fedgov2 = Macnamara | dist1 = 10 | location1 = Melbourne | dist2 = 3 | location2 = Port Phillip | dist3 = 2 | location3 = Caulfield Racecourse | near-nw = Elwood | near-n = St Kilda East | near-ne = Caulfield North | near-w = Ripponlea, Brighton | near-e = Caulfield | near-sw = Brighton | near-s = Gardenvale | near-se = Caulfield South | local_map = yes | zoom = 13

Elsternwick is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local government area. Elsternwick recorded a population of 10,887 at the 2021 census.

Administrative division

In terms of its cadastral division, Elsternwick is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke.

Location

Elsternwick is bounded by the Nepean Highway, Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road, and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road).

Formerly Elsternwick covered the area located in the City of Bayside bounded by Head/Bridge Street, Nepean Highway, Glen Huntly Road and St. Kilda Street. This includes the cricket ground (originally the home of the Elsternwick Cricket Club) and currently known as the Sportscover Arena. It is located within the larger area known as Elsternwick Park – located at the junction of the Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road – as is the former Elsternwick Park Golf Course.

Name

Similarly to how Ripponlea took its name from the Rippon Lea Estate of Sir Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick took its name from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden's house Elster (elster is German for 'magpie'). The area was previously known as Red Bluff.

The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek; and, when a village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix 'wick', meaning village, was added.

History

The Elsternwick village was proposed in 1851. Elsternwick was originally situated across three municipalities - Caulfield, Brighton and St Kilda. At the end of the 1880s unsuccessful attempts were made for Elsternwick to become administratively independent. Today it is in the Local Government Area of the City of Glen Eira. The postcode is 3185.

Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856, and Elsternwick Post Office opened on 22 June 1860.

In 1861 a railway line, operated by the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay Railway Company, was built from Melbourne to Brighton which included a railway station at Elsternwick. The first site of Caulfield Grammar School, founded in 1881, was adjacent to the Elsternwick railway station.

In the 1880s, Elsternwick railway station was also the Melbourne end of the railway line to the large-scale sugar beet processing mill at Rosstown (see Rosstown Railway) – now known as Carnegie – and beyond. This railway was seldom used, and it ceased to function in 1916.

A tramline was opened along Glen Huntly Road in 1889. Another tramline, running between Elsternwick and Point Ormond, was opened on 4 June 1915, and was closed on 22 October 1960.

The ABC studios in Melbourne were located in Gordon Street. The studios were built during the 1950s and 1960s and were decommissioned in 2017. Many programs were filmed and produced in the studios, such as Countdown, Recovery and Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight.

Today

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Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick has a variety of cafés and restaurants. Elsternwick was the home of perhaps the best-known brothel in Australia, and certainly Melbourne; Daily Planet, which was the first in the world to be listed on a stock exchange (the Australian Securities Exchange).

Hattam (Mens and Boys Wear) Stores, at 383 Glenhuntly Road, a long, narrow shop, is one of the last locations in Australia that still has a Lamson "Rapid Wire" Cash Carrier in place; it connects three locations in the lower section of the shop with the central cashier's desk.

The 2017 season of The Block was filmed in Regent Street.

Population

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In the 2016 Census, there were 10,349 people in Elsternwick. 65.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 3.9%, New Zealand 1.9%, India 1.7%, South Africa 1.7% and China 1.5%. 73.0% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Greek 2.6%, Hebrew 2.0%, Russian 1.9%, Yiddish 1.8% and Mandarin 1.7%. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 35.5%, Catholic 18.0%, and Judaism 17.8%.

Transport

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Elsternwick railway station on the Sandringham railway line is located on Riddell Parade next to Glen Huntly Road. For a number of years (in the late 1800s and early 1900s) it was also where the Rosstown Railway linked up with the Sandringham railway line. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Elsternwick_Park_Aerial_panorama_with_Yalukit_Willam_Nature_Reserve_and_the_Cricket_Club_in_the_frame.jpg" caption="Elsternwick Park Aerial panorama with Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve and the Cricket Club in the frame."] ::

Melbourne tram route 67 links Elsternwick to the Melbourne city centre. It travels along Glen Huntly Road from Carnegie, through Glen Huntly and Caulfield South to Elsternwick and, then, via Brighton Road and St Kilda Road to the CBD, via Swanston Street. It terminates at the University of Melbourne.

Sport

The Elsternwick Club Sandham St est 1919 includes Lawn Bowls on Tiff Dwarf green and various function rooms.

The Elsternwick Cricket Club was founded in August 1901. The Elsternwick Main Oval, now known as Sportscover Arena or Elsternwick Park, was established shortly after the club's foundation. The 'Wickas', as the club is affectionately known, plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.

Golfers played at Elsternwick Park Golf Club, also known as Royal Elsternwick, on Glen Huntly Road until 2018, when the course closed to be used as passive open space.

The Elsternwick Croquet Club, founded in 1911, is situated in the Hopetoun Gardens.

Schools

State Schools

The Elsternwick Primary School – once officially located in "Brickwood Street, Elsternwick" – is now, without any shift in its physical position, officially located in Murphy Street, Brighton. Consequently, the suburb currently has no government schools.

Private Schools

Heritage sites

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Built as a public hall in 1888 and converted into a cinema in 1911, Classic Cinemas is claimed to be Melbourne's oldest continuously running cinema.

Elsternwick contains a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

Notable people

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Residential architecture

Image:Lisbon house elsternwick.jpg|"Lisbon House", 70 Orrong Road, is a grand Victorian terrace home. Image:Remodelled Victorian Terraces - Elsternwick.jpg|1930s remodelled Victorian terraces, Glen Eira Road (opposite Caulfield Grammar School) Image:Elsternwick new townhouses & apartment in Horne St.jpg|Elsternwick railway station warehouses converted to townhouses and apartment in Horne Street Image:Elsternwick Retirement Apartment - Victoria By The Park.jpg|Elsternwick Retirement Apartment (Victoria by the Park) next to Hopetoun Gardens

Non-residential architecture

Image:Elsternwick Hotel.jpg|The Elsternwick Hotel (built 1856), corner of Glen Huntly and Brighton Roads Image:Jewish holocaust museum elsternwick.jpg|Jewish Holocaust Museum, Selwyn Street Image:Elsternwick post office and caulfield city rifle club.jpg|Former Elsternwick Post Office and former Caulfield City rifle club buildings Image:Elsternwick Former Fire Station.jpg|Former Elsternwick Fire Station Image:Tudor Style Building - Elsternwick.jpg|Tudor style dominates Glen Eira shopping village (Corner of Glen Eira & Orrong Roads) in Elsternwick Image:Caulfield RSL b.jpg|Rsl Elsternwick

Open space

Image:Elsternwick Park.jpg|Elsternwick Park Golf Club Image:Elsternwick Hopetoun Gardens.jpg|Elsternwick Hopetoun Gardens in Glen Huntly Road (cannons made in England 1866) Image:Nepean HWY - Elsternwick.jpg|Nepean Highway in Elsternwick (9 km towards Melbourne CBD)

References

References

  1. {{Census 2021 AUS
  2. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/168732614 Victorian Place Names] ''[[Truth (Sydney newspaper). Truth]]'' 30 November 1913 page 9
  3. [http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/Sept_2004.pdf See] {{webarchive. link. (1 October 2006)
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  6. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/154960180 Electric Tramways] ''[[The Age]]'' 5 June 1915 page 13
  7. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138699508 Opening of the Elsternwick to Point Ormond Electric Tram Line] ''[[Melbourne Punch]]'' 10 June 1915 page 20
  8. [https://www.afr.com/property/abc-puts-historic-elsternwick-studios-on-the-market-20180926-h15vef ABC puts historic Elsternwick studios on the market] ''[[Australian Financial Review]]'' 25 September 2018
  9. [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/23/1027332350496.html Sex and the market]
  10. [http://www.cashrailway.co.uk/hattam.htm The Cash Railway Website: Hattam Stores, Elsternwick] {{Webarchive. link. (4 March 2016 .)
  11. "Is this Elsternwick site the new location of The Block?] ''[[Herald Sun]]'' 17 March 2017]".
  12. {{Census 2016 AUS
  13. [https://yarratrams.com.au/route-guides/route-67 Route 67] [[Yarra Trams]]
  14. [http://www.eslternwickclub.com.au Eslternwick Club]{{Dead link. (November 2025)
  15. [http://elsternwickcc.vic.cricket.com.au/content.aspx?file=408%7C22729s Eslternwick Cricket Club]. Retrieved November 2010
  16. (17 May 2018). "Elsternwick Golf Course soon to be transferred to open space".
  17. "Classic History: Celebrating 100 Years of Storytelling".
  18. "Rippon Lea House and Garden". Department of the Environment and Energy.
  19. "Rippon Lea". Heritage Council of Victoria.
  20. "Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station (former), 2-4 Selwyn St, Elsternwick, VIC, Australia". Department of the Environment and Energy.
  21. "Former Elsternwick Fire Station". Heritage Council of Victoria.
  22. "Former Union Church". Heritage Council of Victoria.
  23. "Former Elsternwick Tram Substation". Heritage Council of Victoria.
  24. "Former Elsternwick Post Office". Heritage Council of Victoria.
  25. [http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/perth-confidential/cousins-settles-into-new-house/story-e6frg30u-1111118928547 Ben Cousins Settles into posh new Melbourne house] {{Webarchive. link. (26 March 2012 . Retrieved 8 July 2010)
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