7 November 2024
Looks like maybe a 1980s architect designed beach house, but it’s actually a 1938 one room school by Public Works architect Percy Everett! He liked contrasting horizontals and verticals, flat roofs, corner windows, highlight windows, and projecting semi-circular things, and he put them all into this tiny project for Newfield, near Port Campbell. The Age said that ‘its streamlined shape has led to many people to mistaking it for an ultra-modern home’. They praised the efficiency of the layout, that ‘cool water would be assured because of the placing of the tanks under the roof’, and that it was painted brown with cream details. Doesn’t seem to be there any more. Photos @vic_archives.
Storey of Melbourne 