4 February 2025

A few modernist houses in the Yarra Boulevard heritage precinct that I snapped in 2016 on the theme of ‘elevated above the carport’. It was a bit of a fight to get the precinct up, with some owners opposed, others all in favour, and very glad it happened in 2014. The precinct, between the Boulevard, Molesworth, Studley and Stawell, is very hilly, so lends itself to cars under, and is also why it didn’t get subdivided until the 40s. Not every house is outstanding modernist, but there’s a pretty high concentration.

These ones are : 14 Carnsworth, by Geoffrey Danne, 1957; two in White Lodge Court, no dates or architects, but love the Niemeyer forked support with matching shrub (update I’m told it was Drayton & Colman for Alex Tomkin); then the fab Guss House, McGlashan & Everist, 1964 (not my pic). Lastly, 31 Holroyd Street, Kurt Elsner, late 50s, with a jaunty metal zigzag support, which had already had an addition that you can’t see from the street, keeping it mostly intact (last pic real estate, 2013).

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