{{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = suburb | name = Wheelers Hill | city = Melbourne | state = vic | image = File:Jells Park 1.JPG | caption = Jells Park in Wheelers Hill | coordinates = {{coord|37.899|S|145.183|E|display=inline,title}} | alternative_location_map = Australia Victoria metropolitan Melbourne | pushpin_map_caption = Location in metropolitan Melbourne | local_map = yes | zoom = 12 | pop = 20,652 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}} | pop_footnotes = <ref name=abs>{{Census 2021 AUS | id = SAL22766 | name = Wheelers Hill (Suburbs and Localities) | accessdate = 15 July 2022 | quick = on}}</ref> | postcode = 3150 | area = 10.3 | dist1 = 23 | location1 = Melbourne | lga = City of Monash | stategov = Glen Waverley | stategov2 = Mulgrave | fedgov = Chisholm | fedgov2 = Hotham | near-n = Glen Waverley | near-ne = Scoresby | near-e = Scoresby | near-se = Rowville | near-s = Mulgrave | near-sw = Mulgrave | near-w = Notting Hill | near-nw = Mount Waverley | est = }}
'''Wheelers Hill''' is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Monash local government area. Wheelers Hill recorded a population of 20,652 at the {{CensusAU|2021}}.<ref name=abs/>
At 152m above sea level{{cn|date=January 2025}} it includes one of the highest points in metropolitan Melbourne.<ref name=dom/>
==History==
Wheelers Hill was named after James Wheeler in 1888, who was an early settler in the Dandenong area.<ref name=dom>{{cite news | url=https://www.domain.com.au/news/wheelers-hill-the-surprising-melbourne-suburb-with-million-dollar-views-864055/ | title=Wheelers Hill: The surprising Melbourne suburb with million-dollar views | date=30 July 2019 | accessdate=8 January 2025 | author=Dubecki, Larissa}}</ref>
The Wheelers Hill Hotel was a post office and stopping point for farmers before a 6 to 8-hour drive to the city by horse to sell their goods. The Wheelers Mansion was destroyed by a fire in the late 1920s. The house was located somewhere to the south of the Wheelers Hill Library. The Post Office opened on 1 January 1869 and was called Mulgrave until 1888.<ref name = "a">{{Citation| last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Wheeler's*Hill* |access-date= 1 April 2021}}</ref>
==Sport== * Mulgrave Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve * Eastern Devils Women's Football Club at Mulgrave Reserve
==Education==
'''Secondary Schools''' * Wheelers Hill Secondary College * Brentwood Secondary College '''Primary Schools''' * Caulfield Grammar School
==Public library and art gallery==
The Museum of Australian Photography and the Wheelers Hill branch of the Monash Public Library Service co-located in a building at the corner of Jells Road and Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill. The architect of the original 1990 Gallery was Harry Seidler.<ref>Whole cultural precinct designed by Harry Seidler likely in late 1987, as the commissioned Max Dupain photos of the model of the whole scheme date to February 1988. The Gallery was completed in 1990.</ref> Even though Seidler had designed a further whole cultural precinct beyond the gallery,<ref>See "Waverley Cultural Centre" (scheme of 1988) page 356 of ''Harry Seidler: Four Decades of Architecture'' by Kenneth Frampton and Philip Drew (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992). This scheme was highly praised by modern architecture writer Kenneth Frampton in book's essay "1965-1991 Isostatic Architecture" being pages 86-111 at page 110</ref>
==See also== * City of Waverley – Wheelers Hill was previously within this former local government area.
==References== {{reflist}}
{{City of Monash suburbs}}
Category:Suburbs of Melbourne Category:Suburbs of the City of Monash