Milston, Ernest Edward

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Agent TypePersonIdentifierUMA-AG-000001601Place of BirthPragueActivities & OccupationsArchitectsHistoryBorn Arnost Edward Mühlstein in Prague 1893 and educated at the Univ. of Prague 1910-1916 and the Academy of Fine Arts 1918-1919. After graduation Muhlstein worked as an architectural draughtsman in Vienna and then joined as a principal in partnership with Victor Furth Architects firm in Prague from 1920 to 1939. In 1940 Muhlstein migrated to Australia and was briefly employed as an architectural draughtsman, a civilian draughtsman for the Army and then enlisted in the Australian Military Forces. After he was discharged in 1946, Milston designed a range of buildings throughout Vic. and Australia, some in partnership with D.H. Fulton, including the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance forecourt and the Mary Kathleen Uranium New Town Project.Search records of this agent

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[Shrine Forecourt, showing Cenotaph pedestal]

[Opening of Shrine Forecourt 1954]

Certificates of election as Associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects

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[1976.0025] PAPERS OF ERNEST EDWARD MILSTON

Dates

Date11 June 1893 - 4 July 1968

Names

Given NameErnestMiddle NameEdwardFamily NameMilstonOther NamesArnost Edward Mühlstein

University of Melbourne Archives

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Milston, Ernest Edward