Carnegie, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Carnegie
city = Melbourne
state = vic


caption =
lga = City of Glen Eira
postcode = 3163
pop = 15,084 (2006)Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21145 | name = Carnegie (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2007-09-26 | quick = on]
area = 3.8
est =
propval = $585,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Carnegie&postcode=3163 Carnegie] , accessed 13 March 2008]
stategov = Oakleigh
fedgov = Higgins, Goldstein, Hotham
dist1 = 14
location1= Melbourne
near-nw = Caulfield East
near-n = Malvern East
near-ne =
near-w = Glen Huntly
near-e = Murrumbeena
near-sw = Ormond
near-s = Ormond
near-se = Bentleigh East

Carnegie is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. It is in the Local Government Area of the City of Glen Eira. It is 12 km from the Melbourne CBD.

Its postcode is 3163.

The suburb's main shopping precinct is on Koornang Road, between Dandenong Road and Neerim Road.

Carnegie has a diverse cultural cross-section, with many permanent settlers from across the globe, and transient international students studying at the nearby Monash University campus. On Koornang Road alone there are restaurants and grocers offering Malaysian, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Indian, and Russian foods as well as the Rosstown Hotel.

Carnegie is home to a large suburban library and civic centre for the City of Glen Eira, which was built in 2005, as well as the Outdoor Caulfield Swim Centre located opposite Lords Park. [http://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=310&h=0 GlenEira Swimming Centres Page]

Transport

The terminus of the Carnegie tram route is just south of the shopping centre. The Public Transport Users Association has instigated calls for its extension to the nearby Carnegie railway station which services the shopping centre, as a major mode interchange [http://www.ptua.org.au/policy/network] .

History

Originally called Rosstown, after William Murray Ross, a developer. The name was changed in 1909 to try and distance the suburb from the connotations of failure brought about by Ross' sugar beet mill project which never began production, and the Rosstown Railway. The name Carnegie was chosen in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to secure funds for a library from the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The original name lives on in the name of the local hotel, and Rosstown Road. Leila Road is named after Mr Ross's wife, and Grange Road is named after Ross's estate, "The Grange", which has since been subdivided and is now suburban housing estates.
Carnegie Primary School (No. 2897) was established in 1888 as Rosstown State School.
The Carnegie theatre was, in the 1930s, a popular cinema, but has since been converted into offices.

ee also

* City of Caulfield - the former local government area of which Carnegie was a part.
* The Carnegie libraries
* Rosstown Railway, Melbourne

References

* Isabel Couper & Deirdre Lynch, "Carnegie Primary School no.2897 The first 100 years 1888-1988" ISBN 0 7316 28314

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20040511082346/www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/carnegie.html Australian Places: Carnegie]