Christopher Porter ( – 1874) was an architect who was prominent in

Geelong, Victoria Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ...

in the late 1850s and 1860s, and later in

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(now within Australia). Porter migrated to Victoria with his family in 1851, worked as an architect in Geelong and then Brisbane, where he was appointed City Surveyor, and then turned to farming. He designed: * Bell & Son Bakery in Geelong * Geelong Chamber of Commerce building in Moorabool Street in 1858The "Geelong Album" photographed by E. de Balk, Geelong, 1866
/ref> * Ballarat Chamber of Commerce in 1859 *

Kedron Lodge Kedron Lodge is a heritage-listed villa at 123 Nelson Street, Kalinga, Queensland, Kalinga (formerly in Wooloowin, Queensland, Wooloowin), City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect Christopher Porter (architect), Chr ...

in Brisbane 1860 * Normal School in Brisbane in 1860, becoming the Queensland Board of Education's first general architect * Ballarat Benevolent Society in 1866 The Geelong Chamber of Commerce was built by Boynton and Conway, demolished 1955), described as "...a Barrabool freestone building of two storeys with an elaborate facade which included giant Corinthian order columns". The design of the Normal School was later thought to have included a subtle joke with " l doorways and windows had wide key stones and copings forming the shape of the dreaded broad arrow of convict days." Porter also had an interest in a pottery and brickworks for the manufacture of tiles and hollow bricks at Mopoke Gully near Ballarat in the 1860s, which may have been connected to his contracting works. He lived in his final years at Doughboy Creek (now in Hemmant), and died in 1874, and was buried in Tingalpa Church Cemetery. He lived in his final years at

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, and died in 1874, and was buried in Tingalpa Church Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Porter, Christopher 1800s births 1874 deaths People from Geelong Architects from Brisbane 19th-century Australian architects British emigrants to the Colony of Victoria