Christopher Porter (architect)


Christopher Porter was an architect who was prominent in Geelong, Victoria in the late 1850s and 60s, and later in Brisbane, Queensland.
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:
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 ll 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, and died in 1874, and was buried in Tingalpa Church Cemetery. He lived in his final years at Doughboy Creek, and died in 1874, and was buried in Tingalpa Church Cemetery.