"Roseberry", an Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - North Caulfield
"Roseberry" is an elegant Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow is built in the Melbourne suburb of North Caulfield.
Built between Federation (1901) and the years just after the Great War (1914 - 1918), the use of red brick and the roughcast stuccoed wall treatment of "Roseberry" are very Arts and Crafts inspired as is are the rounded bay windows featuring latticed glass. The tall chimney, the half-timbered gable over the rounded portico and the unusual shaped piers of the portico are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia.
"Roseberry" must have been built for someone of affluence, as it was built with a garage to the right-hand side. Its beginning can just been seen to the right of the picture.
As in London, there was a huge expansion in Melbourne after the Great War in 1918, with ribbon development estates with names like "Oakhill" and "Golf Links" popping up seemingly overnight along rail lines and tram lines. These quickly became suburbs where the newly created and newly moneyed middle classes chose to settle, away from the crowded inner city with its dark Victorian houses and slums. These suburbs gained the mocking title of "Metroland".
Representing modernity the inspiration of these "Metroland" houses were derived from the Reformist and Arts and Crafts movement in England as well as the more modern lines of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architectural styles that were in vogue in the 1920s and 1930s.
"Roseberry", an Arts and Crafts Style Bungalow - North Caulfield
"Roseberry" is an elegant Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow is built in the Melbourne suburb of North Caulfield.
Built between Federation (1901) and the years just after the Great War (1914 - 1918), the use of red brick and the roughcast stuccoed wall treatment of "Roseberry" are very Arts and Crafts inspired as is are the rounded bay windows featuring latticed glass. The tall chimney, the half-timbered gable over the rounded portico and the unusual shaped piers of the portico are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement in Australia.
"Roseberry" must have been built for someone of affluence, as it was built with a garage to the right-hand side. Its beginning can just been seen to the right of the picture.
As in London, there was a huge expansion in Melbourne after the Great War in 1918, with ribbon development estates with names like "Oakhill" and "Golf Links" popping up seemingly overnight along rail lines and tram lines. These quickly became suburbs where the newly created and newly moneyed middle classes chose to settle, away from the crowded inner city with its dark Victorian houses and slums. These suburbs gained the mocking title of "Metroland".
Representing modernity the inspiration of these "Metroland" houses were derived from the Reformist and Arts and Crafts movement in England as well as the more modern lines of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architectural styles that were in vogue in the 1920s and 1930s.