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Hidden St Kilda mansion

Hidden St Kilda mansion

October 2018 Repost 2018: Check out what’s inside ! Hidden behind 60s flats at 40 Alma Road, St Kilda, there’s this mansion. Called Rhianva, later Shirley, built 1868 for David Rosenthal, jewellery merchant, part of the early concentration of well-off Jewish peeps in St Kilda starting in the 1850s. The architects were Crouch & Wilson, … Continue reading Hidden St Kilda mansion