March 2015:

Random #victorianmansion on a suburban corner in #hawthorneast near camberwell junction (Havelock and Denmark Hill Road).

Built in peak boom 1889-91 like so many other mansions, it has the requisite tower and arcaded verandah. But what a verandah ! Wraps round three sides, double level plus a bit of basement, fat columns with corinthian capitals, and bowed on each side, where the arches above get squished into little pointy things. Goodness.

By architect #williamgeorgewolf who did the even more extrordinary Lalor House in Richmond pic 7, and possibly the Willows on St Kilda Road, last pic.

Apparently known as Graham’s Folly after the owner (who the architect had to sue to get his fees…but don’t know where I got that story). Been St Joseph’s convent since the 40s, now with attached old folks home.

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