"Hood's Court" Flats - Elwood
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), a new generation of young people who had survived the war years wanted nothing more than to live their lives in a way that challenged their parents' conventions. This included how they lived. They longed for independance and no longer wanted to live in the Victorian and Edwardian villas that were their family homes.
Somewhere like "Hood's Court" in the inner Melbourne suburb of Elwood would have suited the newly independant young woman or a well-to-do bachelor. With its Arts & Crafts Tudoresque brick nogging and large windows, this small block of boutique flats would have been light filled and comfortable, as well as being spacious enough to create a new kind of gracious living, without the need of a retinue of servants.
This block with its stuccoed brickwork and angular roofline is typical of the post war Arts and Crafts movement that came out of England.
"Hood's Court" Flats - Elwood
After the Great War (1914 - 1918), a new generation of young people who had survived the war years wanted nothing more than to live their lives in a way that challenged their parents' conventions. This included how they lived. They longed for independance and no longer wanted to live in the Victorian and Edwardian villas that were their family homes.
Somewhere like "Hood's Court" in the inner Melbourne suburb of Elwood would have suited the newly independant young woman or a well-to-do bachelor. With its Arts & Crafts Tudoresque brick nogging and large windows, this small block of boutique flats would have been light filled and comfortable, as well as being spacious enough to create a new kind of gracious living, without the need of a retinue of servants.
This block with its stuccoed brickwork and angular roofline is typical of the post war Arts and Crafts movement that came out of England.