Repost yesterday 2018 : What I think of as the dragon house, actually called Alton, 28 #StudleyParkRoad, #Kew, built 1905, but nobody knows the architect (possibly Christopher Cowper). I seem to recall seeing the dragon from a young age so maybe it’s not a 1980s creation like many of the others (update: it’s featured in … Continue reading Alton, Studley Park Road →

Limerick Lodge, 1928, by the ever versatile #ArthurPlaisted; fantastic exaggerated Old English style, with very rough plastering, equally rough half timbering, leadlight as if broken and repaired, and an excellent gate. So cute. Brighton Road, cnr Maryville Street, Ripponlea #heritageprecinct. Cute inside too, with an original or maybe 50s, kitchen. Montrose, a nice Spanish - … Continue reading Interwar variety, Ripponlea →

Repost August 2018 when I made the effort to search out notable Edwardian houses : A fabbo house and surgery for Dr Armstrong built 1904, and designed by #UssherandKemp. I’ve known this one for ever, standing prominently on #CanterburyRoad Canterbury, no trees in the 70s, so quite visible, and all the woodwork was white. Im … Continue reading Edwardian in Canterbury, birthplace of dragons →

Repost this day 2019: Very impressive #terracehouses on #FitzroyStreetStKilda which you can only see in winter really. Built 1882, architect not known, and a third one was demolished in 1970 😮 for a little 2 storey brown brick nothing. Not sure when but the two were combined, prob early on as a guest house, and … Continue reading Grand Terraces, Fitzroy Street →

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 →