Repost this day 2018: Mansions of the #GildedAge, or at least a retail king in #EdwardianMelbourne. Dalsraith was built in 1906 for Mr Gibson of the #FoyandGibson department store empire, which dominated Smith Street. #UssherandKemp turned the picturesque #QueenAnne into a formal, really grand somewhat #TudorStyle mansion, rather oddly facing up the hill off #StudleyParkRoad. … Continue reading Dalswraith later Campion College, Kew →

Original post 3 November 2017: The 1881 Union Bank at 351 Collins Street was designed by English architect Macvicar Anderson, and demolished 1966. Various ideas were floated for saving the whole or parts of the stone facade, but all that was kept were the two statues, and 5 broken capitals, transferred to the new Architecture … Continue reading Union Bank remnants, Melbourne University →

Repeat this day 2019: Great #ArtDeco #blockofflats in #CarolineStreetSouthYarra, up from the river. Why don’t they build garden apartments like this any more ? Also, interesting layouts, most built as #onebedroom but with a separate #diningroom, so presumably for young couples who might entertain. Not my photo

LosAngesCourt, off Brighton Road, in Ripponlea was created in 1926 when a nursery closed and was subdivided, with small, wide lots, all at a slight angle and the houses and flats were all built between then and 1940. The court is in the middle of the Ripponlea #heritageprecinct (the tiny locality of Ripponlea doesn’t include … Continue reading Los Angeles Court, Ripponlea →

Mereen and Alton, #BurnettStreetStKilda, another case of 30s flats both with side gardens facing each other, virtually shared, presumably one came first the other followed, nice idea. I lived in the top middle of Alton in the early 90s the only drawback was you could pretty much see straight into the opposite lounge rooms. Exact … Continue reading Mereen and Alton, St Kilda →

This towered mansion on the top of the St Kilda hill looks a little run down, not to mention hemmed in by traffic at the corner of Princes and Barkly Streets. Called Liverpool, it was built in 1889 for estate agent Nathaniel Levi, named after his home town. He was the first Jewish MP in … Continue reading Liverpool, St Kilda hill, 1889 →

😮 repost 2015 : A c1972 proposed government office building just after they had purchased #tasmaterrace, and intended to #demolish it. The Catholic Ladies College and Unitarian Church behind Tasma had just been demolished, and so had St Patrick’s College behind the Cathedral - which it would have totally it would have dominated even the … Continue reading Tasma Terrace almost demolished →

Repost this day 2018: The house I grew up in, 58 Broadway, Camberwell. That was my attic bedroom window. A street of all Edwardian villas developed between 1900 and 1915, only one 30s house, now replaced. Leafy eastern suburbs, I guess I didn’t realise how privileged we were but back then, it was just an … Continue reading 58 Broadway Camberwell →

5 August 2021 Park Mansions, #ParkStreetSouthYarra, one of the earliest flat developments in Melbourne - I think - can’t find out much for certain! Earliest ads are from 1913, which makes it 3 years after #FawknerMasions, the oldest extant flats - but it seems it was more like a boarding house, with rooms and suites … Continue reading Park Mansions, 1913 →

Repost this day 2018, then two from a couple of weeks ago (all very edited): The #AssemblyHall was built in 1915, next to #ScotsChurch, designed by #HHKemp in a suitably Gothic style, complete with tower, to complement the 1874 church. It includes a hall for the ‘assembly’ of the Scots Church, and I’m sure rented … Continue reading Assembly Hall, 1915 →