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 * When we visited the Tasma Terrace it was a gift shop and the Victorian head quarters for the National Trust. What I want to now was what the Tasma Terrace was before it became a gift shop? Tasma Terrace is the headquarters of the National Trust, which led a campaign to save the treasure from demolition in the 1970s. Designed by the prolific architect Charles Web, the rendered brick structure with a fine cast iron verandah and iron palisade fence and piers is one of the finest terraces in Melbourne. Constructed in two stages, the first three houses were built in 1878-79 for George Nipper, grain merchant and ship-owner. He overstretched his investments however with the construction of the nearby Windsor Hotel, and had to sell both in 1885 to Joseph Thompson, a flamboyant bookmaker, who extended the terrace to the corner in 1887. I have now discovered what the Tasma Terrace was before it became a gift shop it was a Melbourne’s best-known up market boarding house as well as selection of lodging houses from the 1870s. Many of boarding houses were run and rented by women as this was seen as a respectable job for women as it offered safe housing with meals, laundry and housekeeping services. Directly across road from Tasma Terrace is modern sculpture. I had no idea what is was, but what i found interesting initially was the oldness of the Tasma terrace houses, and very modem sculpture the "Monster Petition" . This was a giant petition with 30,000 signatures offered to the Victorian Parliament in 1891 as evidence of widespread support for equal voting rights for women. The artwork commemorates 100 years of women being allowed to vote in Victoria and celebrates the achievements of all Victorian women and suffragists. Great Petition was designed by the artists Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee, and commissioned by the State Government in collaboration with the City of Melbourne. The suffrage petition was signed by 30,000 women was presented in parliament in 1891. When the suffrage petition was signed it was because of the strong political interests in Victoria was the last state in to grant women’s suffrage in 1908. **

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