August 2019, updated 2025 A wonderful bit of #streetfurniture on #BalaclavaRoad, North Caulfield. There’s three of this type of #TramShelter, all built in 1916/17 by the #PrahranAndMalvernTramwaysTrust, the municipal body that built much of the tram system in the east and southeast suburbs in the 1910s, so their increasingly suburban citizens could get around. Built … Continue reading Tram Shelter, Caulfield →

Repost 2018: The most excellent #CaulfieldTechnicalSchool extension by the ever creative #PercyEverett, chief architect of the #publicworksdepartment. Streamlined Modernist designed during ww2 and built 1947, by when it looked a bit retro. The #hexagonal feature may or may not be inspired by the the #RussianConstructivist #melnikovhouse, since percy went to russia in 1930. A landmark … Continue reading Caulfield Tech, 1947 →

13 August 2018: #LindHouse, #DandenongRoad, #NorthCaulfield, #AnatolKagan, 1955. Realestate pic, and today’s pic from the driveway; a #midcenturymodern delight. Undercroft, #creambricks, #butterflyroof, #glasscurtainwall, #stonewalling, loads if decorative features inside, parquetry, panelling, built in shelving, even padded bed head. You can almost forgive #heritagevictoria for describing it as a ‘collection of disparate elements’ and refusing to … Continue reading Lind House, Anatol Kagan, 1955 →

A nice probably 1930s set of #SpanishMissionStyle flats in #BeaconsfieldParade - at least they would be nice if not for that clunky added ‘matching’ floor. Seems to have happened just after 2010, found a before image. Don’t know how it was allowed, since Port Phillip #heritageguidelines say additions should be under a line taken from … Continue reading Interwar Beaconsfield Parade →

Repost this day 2019 : Great photo in the #MelbourneUniversityArchives of an 1850s/60s house in #NicholsonStreetFitzroy that’s still there showing it had some kind of slatted ? canvas ? screen wall with arched openings following the arches of the verandah - no idea if that was 1850s too, but it shows that the Victorians had … Continue reading 19thC sun shading →

I was surprised recently to find out my great grandfather Elsdon Storey lived here ! In a big terrace house called Romanby on #BeaconsfieldParade, Middle Park, not far from me, from c1901-1920. In fact he might have built it; though it looks maybe 1860s it was actually built some time between 1900 and 1905, at … Continue reading Ancestral home on the beach →

Repost this day 2019: Very cute ! #Anselm, architect #RobertHaddon’s own house from 1906 in a little street in Caulfield just south of the Glenferrie and Dandenong Rd corner. Great details inside apparently. Love the spindly weathervane, the #terracotta on the turret and the gate is good too (with an angel holding a church ??). … Continue reading Anselm, Robert Haddon, 1906 →

Repost 2018 : Travancore, 1899, #RiversdaleRoad, down the hill towards the Alamein line crossing, designed by #UssherandKemp. This features as the archetypal #FederationQueenAnne house (Victorian version) in the 1970s ‘Architecture in Australia’ (though they don’t all have a fabbo corner turret); anyway they’re usually single storey, with a tall hip roof in red #marseillestile (imported), … Continue reading Travancore, 1899 →

Repost this day 2019: Yes it’s a bit of a #concretebunker but the 1993 #GottliebHouse in #CaulfieldNorth by #WoodMarsh has so much more presence and I guess integrity than every other ‘contemporary’ style house being built now. I like that the concrete is maturing into an almost organic rock formation with all that streaking, contrasting … Continue reading Gottlieb House, 1993 →

August 2021, updated 2025 with new pics. The Redmond Barry reading room at the State Library is quite grand but feels rather on a budget compared to the amazing Domed Reading Room. It was completed in 1893, and praised for its fine proportions and fireproof construction (concrete under the Karri timber, and the posts are … Continue reading Museum, Gallery, now Library →