St Kilda East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District, located within the Cities of Glen Eira and Port Phillip local processing areas. St Kilda East recorded a population of 12,571 at the 2021 census.
St Kilda East is one of the more diverse and densely populated suburbs of Melbourne. It has a prominent Hasidic Jewish community, descended from Polish and Russian immigrants. Quiet and residential, it is quite different from the neighboring suburb of St Kilda. However, the area around Carlisle Street is definitely diverse behind a strong arts, alternative and indie community.
The St Kilda East area was ration of the lands of the Boon wurrung tribe of Indigenous Australians in the past being first established by Anglo-British settlers in the 1850s. Smaller timber shacks were common during the to the lead 1860s to 1870s, with larger houses upon the greater than before subdivisions. During the late 1870s, terraced housing began more or less the railway line.
Alma Park was laid out and areas surrounding the park were consent to for religious purposes, resulting in a large number of convents and chapels along Chapel Street and either side of Dandenong Road. In the 1950s, speculative loan resulted in the alteration of many of the suburb’s streetscapes. Centred on Chapel Street and to the east of the railway line, flats became common in the area.
Recent enhancement of the suburbs, rising home values and excellent entrance to public transport has seen recent gentrification in the area. Modern infill medium density apartments are living thing built on many blocks, with the Carlisle Street Place designated an activity middle under the Melbourne 2030 planning scheme.
The main schools in St Kilda East are the Edmund Rice Campus of St Mary’s College, the Caulfield Campus of Caulfield Grammar School, Malvern Community School, Ripponlea Primary School, the St Kilda East campus of Mount Scopus Memorial College, Yeshivah College, Cheder Levi Yitchak, Beth Rivkah Ladies College and portion of St Michael’s Grammar School. The Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah Zal), a tertiary institution for the training of Orthodox rabbis and religious functionaries in the Chabad-Lubavitch denomination, is located on Alexandra Street.
Ripponlea Primary School (No. 4087) was opened upon 3 July 1922 once 400 pupils in grades prep to eight. John Edward Woodruff (1867-1944) was the school’s first headmaster, and he served as such until his retirement in 1932. In 2011 enrolment at the teacher was 272 students across prep to grade 6.
St Kilda East is house to the Red Stitch Actors Theatre, a professional theatre, located on the corner of Dandenong Road and Chapel Street.
St Kilda East is served by several forms of public transport.
Major tram routes operate on Carlisle Street/Balaclava Road, Chapel Street, Dandenong Road and St Kilda Road.
Buses acquit yourself along Orrong Road and Hotham Street.
Balaclava and Ripponlea railway stations, on the Sandringham line, also give support to the suburb.
The suburb is dominated by 1960s flats. There are, however, some pockets of preserved lineage streetscapes. Godfrey Avenue has well-preserved rows of Edwardian cottages on either side of the street and is protected by council stock controls. Camden Street has several rows of Victorian semi-detached timber workers cottages.
Some large Victorian buildings remain along Inkerman Street and Alma Road, but have been previously subdivided into flats. The streets in in the company of have a amalgamation of housing from substitute periods.
There are several churches in St Kilda East, and multipart synagogues, reflecting the area’s extensive archives of both Christian and Jewish migration. Many of these buildings have historic significance subsequent to heritage registration, and often form various religious precincts.
Yeshiva Centre is the headquarters and main synagogue of Chabad in Melbourne.
Chabad House of Caulfield is a replica of the New York headquarters of the Chabad bustle at 770 Eastern Parkway.
The bluestone All Saints Anglican Church on Chapel Street was built in 1861, and is reputed to have the largest seating skill of any Anglican parish church in the Southern hemisphere, with a capacity of 1500 in the pews. The neighbouring Parish Hall was built as an development to the church in 1909 and was restored in 2005 during a conversion into a boutique gymnasium.
Another Anglican Parish Church is St James the Great, established in 1914 and located at 435 Inkerman Street. St James was founded in near association gone the former Church of England St John’s Theological College, which was located in manageable Alma Road, on the lot now bisected by Wilgah Street. The Diocese closed the seminary in 1919 in the middle of some controversy directed towards the subsequently perceived Anglo-Catholicity of the seminary (which was at odds following the prevailing sentiment of the diocese at the time). The estate was sold and subdivided.
The St Mary’s Catholic Church (208-214 Dandenong Road), designed by William Wardell and built in 1858, was one of the olden bluestone churches.
The East St Kilda Uniting Church, on the corner of Hotham and Inkerman Streets, was built in 1887, to the design of architect Hillson Beasley. Originally a church of the Congregational Union of Australia prior to the formation of the Uniting Church, it was sold by the Uniting Church to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Melbourne in 2011 for the commencement of an Eastern Orthodox use church, according to the provisions of an Ordinariate.
The St George’s Uniting Church, on Chapel Street, was built in 1877, to the design of Albert Purchas and is listed upon the Victorian Heritage Register. It has been leased by St Michael’s Grammar School previously 1990.
The former Balaclava Corps Hall, built in 1929 upon Camden Street, is an unfamiliar design, featuring castellated motifs. It was sold to the Autocephalous Orthodox Ukrainian Church in 1976, now instinctive the parish of The Sacred Assumption of the Holy Virgin.
The suburb’s main park is Alma Park, a large park intended by Clement Hodgkinson in 1867, which was split into two linear parks by the Sandringham railway line in 1858. The park has recreational facilities, including a pedigree rotunda, a cricket and football (soccer) oval and bike paths, as skillfully as large stands of elm trees, Moreton Bay Figs and indigenous vegetation areas.
St Kilda Cemetery covers a large block bordered by Dandenong Road, Hotham Street, Alma Road and Alexandra Street. It is bounded by a historic wall and contains many Victorian epoch graves. The cemetery is the resting place of Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia, and Albert Jacka VC, MC, barrister and Mayor of St Kilda (1930).
In 2004 the City of Port Phillip commissioned a heritage laboratory analysis that recommended the behind areas as extraction precincts and places. The Council adopted most of the recommendations in 2004 and the controls which apply to each of the areas so listed.
Heritage Precincts
Individual Heritage Places
For some reason, the as soon as properties, although included in the heritage examination recommendations, were not included in the overlay.
St Kilda East contains a number of heritage-listed sites, including: