Original post 27 February 2020

Repost 2020: St Kilda still surprises – another hidden mansion ! Behind the Spanish style flats at 39 #AclandStreet, there’s a completely intact big house, pretty much the same as the one next door, no 41, but that one never got flats built in the front yard. Both built by 1870, same size and setback and two storeys, but the hidden one was on a double block, so the entrance was on the side, and the portico is still there too. I reckon neither the flats in the house nor the flats in the front have much aspect or light, so it was clearly a $ making proposition, the most for the least outlay, maybe it was c1933-4, coming out of the depression. Thanks to Peter McEwan for pointing this one out. Pics 2-4 are across the garden of no 41, the pic of side entry, interior, and no 41 from real estate ads.

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