Tag: StKilda
Original post 19 July 2020 Photos 29 June #Kingsclere in #FitzroyStreetStKilda has a rather late Edwardian facade for its 1926 date, but has an interesting interior, being built around a courtyard, very rare in Melbourne. Though seems architect #PJOconnor didn’t think the it needed to be anything other than very plain #redbrick; it’s quite lushly … Continue reading Kingsclere, Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, 1926
Original post 14 July 2020 This very stylish block on my street is called San Diego, but it’s quite obscured by some #damntrees. It’s clearly 1930s Art Deco, with a bit of Bauhaus influence, all those stepped volumes with corner steel framed windows, and little sticking out balconies. That's about all I know, except that … Continue reading San Diego, 1936
Original post 7 July 2020 The #victorianpridecentre is nearly topped out- looking very tubular ! And big. And the back is pretty interesting too!
Original post 3 July 2020 The #CataniClocktower on the #UpperEsplanade, one of largest memorials to anyone in Victoria, and definitely for an engineer! Catani was Italian, and studied in Florence, before coming out here in 1876, got a job at the Lands Department, and by the 1890s was responsible for big projects like draining the … Continue reading Catani Clocktower, 1932
Original post 10 April 2020 Rearing up in the middle of the otherwise low scale suburban #RobeStreetStKilda is this idiosyncratic pile. It was created in c1920 by rebuilding the Star & Garter Hotel, which was delicensed in 1919; the conversion was designed by AV Gillespie. The hotel was originally a three storey 5 bay thing … Continue reading Windsor Court, Robe Street, a converted pub.
20 Jan 2020: I do feel a bit lucky to waking past something like this on the way to the local Dr ! #EildonMansion, built in 1872, designed by #JosephReed of #ReedAndBarnes, an enlargement of an earlier house. This is actually the ‘back’, the other side is more elaborate and originally faced huge lawns and … Continue reading Eildon Mansion, St Kilda
Original post 27 February 2020 Linden in #AclandStreet is quite a survivor! While all around it were converted to flats, or demolished and replaced by flats, and St Kilda went from exclusive residential, to flats, and then cheap flats, the Michaelis family, who had built it in 1870, stayed on ! It was designed by … Continue reading Linden, Acland Street, 1870
Original post 27 February 2020 Repost 2020: St Kilda still surprises - another hidden mansion ! Behind the Spanish style flats at 39 #AclandStreet, there’s a completely intact big house, pretty much the same as the one next door, no 41, but that one never got flats built in the front yard. Both built by … Continue reading Hidden heritage in St Kilda No 2
Original post 25 February 2020 Cute Deco flats in #FitzroyStreetStKilda, BUT the two halves are so close together! Check out those balconies down the back, you could lean out and touch the other one ! As far as I can work out, they’re the stairs, but still, there’s lounge rooms facing each other only like … Continue reading Deco flats – bit too close for comfort
Original post 21 February 2020 Finally got a good shot of this fine elliptical #portico; part of Wyndham, a 1927 #blockofflats which has this portico as entrance and shared balcony overlooking their generous lawn, where I often see families with kids picnicking or even having parties. It faces another block that also has a side … Continue reading Wyndham, St Kilda, 1927
If the Nazi's never took power, would Berlin have Europe's tallest skyscraper and East Prussia be a honeymoon destination ?
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