3 June 2018:
I think of #StVincentPlace #SouthMelbourne as full of grand terraces, but there’s actually a lot of free-standing #villas and single storey ones too. It’s now extremely expensive real estate, so they’re all totally renovated, paint taken off bricks, mostly heritage colours, but the paint-everything-shades-of-grey disease also to be seen. They’ve all got giant extensions behind, the first one even has a basement pool, but nothing allowed to stick behind thank goodness. St Vincent Place is the only urban area listed by #heritagevictoria- once they listed it they realised the work involved in approving every little thing (or big things in this case) created a giant workload, so they havnt done it again. Councils are mostly good at protecting precincts in any event. Mostly.
Repost this day 2018 : #StVincentPlace, a fine #terracepair. Proper #Victoriancolours, I’m very pleased to see. I’m guessing Manila, Cumberland Stone, and Rich Red. Yes it’s all very earthy, but that’s pretty typical for the period – though the walls would usually be #cementrender #grey, the Victorians liked a bit of contrast. It’s a far cry from the currently popular so boring dark grey on light grey. Nice to see two owners agreeing on matching colours too.
This grand but otherwise typical house in #stvincentplace has this great detail on the parapet! Classical dolohins. It’s also just been completely done over. But actually there wasn’t much original inside left, in fact in 2013 it was sold half gutted/renovated, but then they left just three walls and some roof; the end result though is very nice, channeling Victorian houses without being literal. By @b.e_architecture, and completed maybe 6 months before I took my photos.
Repost 2019: There’s not that much #ArtNouveau in Melbs really, especially on houses, but here’s one in #StVincentPlace that looks to me like it’s inspired by the 1898 Secession building in Vienna, with that little dome and vegetal ornament, though vastly simplified. This is a c1905 renovation of an earlier house, and no architect has been identified. But just might be #ArthurFisher who did a pair of terraces in Park Street South Yarra in 1906 that also features Art Nouveau, and has very similar wide leaf decoration. But then Billilla in Brighton from 1907 has similar ornament, and that’s by Walter Butler, then there’s also the 1910 Bayview hotel in Nelson place Williamstown, by architect Gordon McCrae. So maybe it was just what the modeller liked to do !
Repost 2019: Fantastic house in #StVincentPlace #AlbertPark by #FrederickDeGaris, who did some pretty OTT Italianate stuff esp in the south area, but here in 1893 went for an eclectic mix, #polychromebrick like the so-called #LombardicRomanesque, with round arched windows, the diagonal planning that was later so typical for Edwardian houses, and a wonderfully lacy, complex #castironverandah.
17 June 2018
Repost 2018: Elegant house in St Vincent Place, Albert Park, c1879. Very unusual #castironlace #verandah, curving out at the ends; it’s not like you get more balcony space, but it’s nice. Another house there that’s changed hands recently, sold in 2015, so there’s some pics of the inside – not terribly exciting though.
16 March 2020
When you build a #terracehouse, but you really want a tower too ! This is in #StVincentPlaceAlbertPark, from back in Oct that I never posted. Don’t know date or architect but prob 1880s, when towers were popular. Interesting that the front door is kind of hidden down the side, though it is marked by the tower.
Storey of Melbourne 