16 August 2024 Very nice leadlight shopfront at the bottom of Fitzroy Street St Kilda, note the cute motif in the door itself. Probably 1920s. There’s a permit for an apartment development to go behind the retained frontage of the Victorian shops, and the adjacent rather ordinary 1930s thing, and this shopfront is going to … Continue reading Leadlight shopfront St Kilda →

15 August 2024 A Modernist house at 208 Kooyong Road Nth Caulfield Street is up for sale, so here’s the r e photos, from now and before (only 2 years ago). It’s not super stylish, but really quite nice, and well designed, with the lounge facing north, and opening out to a rear pool. The … Continue reading Modernist House by Ernest Fooks →

13 August 2024 The really quite flamboyant former Crown Law Offices in Lonsdale Street, with lots of marvellous carved stonework. Designed by SE Bindley within the Public Works Department, and completed 1893, the lower part is sober Renaissance Revival, in a three bayed form, that then takes off in complicated early French or Dutch Renaissance … Continue reading Crown Law Offices, Lonsdale Street →

12 August 2024 The long gone Menzies Hotel once stood on the se corner of Bourke & William Streets, and was the hotel of choice of the elite from its opening in 1867 into the 1950s. It went through many additions over the years : the original hotel was 3 floors, designed by Reed & … Continue reading Menzies Hotel →

10 August 2024 The slightly famous and quite delightful ‘Green House’ in Burnley Street Richmond, which is a perfectly preserved time capsule of (probably) post-war migrant upgrading of an old house, at a time when the English speaking community thought they were just too old and dingy to bother with. (Update : I was wrong, … Continue reading Green House, Burnley Street Richmond →

11 August 2019: A rather luxe 1960s #blockofflats at 247 #GlenEiraRoad, #Elsternwick; its got huge windows and strips of marble and fancy #wroughtiron balustrades, and semi-hidden parking - only four spots and four letterboxes - only 4 flats. I think they’re all 3 beds, quite spacious. The lounges face north over the house next door, … Continue reading Spacious 60s flats, Elsternwick →

9 August 2018: A #VictorianMansion that’s so big and severe it looks like a public building ! Which it has been most of its life. Built 1890, called Blackhall, no other info. Better known as a #SalvationArmy home for girls from 1915 to 1978, then it became a campus for #Preshil, Melbourne’s main alternative school, … Continue reading Mansion / school, Kew →

5 August 2018: Amongst all the Federation villas in Camberwell are a few 1880s mansions that once had huge grounds, and two of them almost match and were right next door to each other off Mont Albert Road ! Parlington (originally Veralum, pics 1,2,3) was built in 1888 for Mr Macintosh, and designed by #JamesGall … Continue reading Tower Envy →

4 August 2024 Striking 60s block in Eildon Road St Kilda, in a fetching shade of blue … which actually dates from around 2018. But I like it. Seems to be all modest 1 beds, except for the 4 bedroom penthouse with a rooftop entertaining room and deck behind the #breezeblock pats pet. Reputedly it … Continue reading Mid century flats with penthouse →

6 August 2024 The exotically named twin apartments called Mandalay on the Upper Esplanade, St Kilda. Built 1935, and @cityofportphillip heritage planner tells me the architect was busy flat builder/designer Bernard Evans. It was built in the front garden of a large 1882 house originally called Rathlin, then Mandalay from 1916. Facebook people have found/scanned … Continue reading Mandalay, Upper Esplanade →