Repost this day 2019:
Very cute ! #Anselm, architect #RobertHaddon’s own house from 1906 in a little street in Caulfield just south of the Glenferrie and Dandenong Rd corner. Great details inside apparently. Love the spindly weathervane, the #terracotta on the turret and the gate is good too (with an angel holding a church ??). Haddon was the leading light of the #ArtsAndCraftsMovement in #Melbourne, helped start the #ArtsandcraftsSociety, but also ran the architecture course at the #WorkingMensCollege (#RMIT) and also ran a practice called the Central Drawing Office doing designs for other architects ! This is one of the few things definitely only by him. He worked for architects who did lots of pubs and houses, so often anything with some Art Nouveau or unusual details like circular windows or artistic asymmetry is said to be him.
August 2026
Update : the house was sold in 2022 after many years with happy owners, who feature in the real estate video ! They loved the variety of the rooms each with a different feel and light, and the way the main lounge / dining could become a party room, and kitchen with a window/hatch opening to the bank yard- all original, no rear extension necessary. Though there is an almost attached bungalow with three more bedrooms. I love all the plain timber joinery, and that it looks cosy, but is actually quite spacious. And the bathroom ! Original round cornered tiles, with a nautical frieze, possibly painted by Haddon himself. It’s been on the Heritage Register since 1999.
