An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Travancore
This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa with a large terrace and balcony, like its neighbours, is built on the high side of a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the rough cut stuccoed brick walls and brown brick foundations are Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the pattern directly beneath the eave above the French doors. The latticed glass windows upstairs and the French doors below are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet somewhere in the 1930s, the facade of the house was updated to one of the prevailing style of the time; Streamline Moderne, as the balcony has three speed lines around it, which then run across the rest of the width of the facade. The balustrade of iron is also very Streamline Modern. The house's front fence is made to match them.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone residence, the largest and argueably the grandest in the street, would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a large retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a well established garden of Australian natives and exotics.
An Arts and Crafts Style Villa - Travancore
This splendid Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style villa with a large terrace and balcony, like its neighbours, is built on the high side of a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the rough cut stuccoed brick walls and brown brick foundations are Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the pattern directly beneath the eave above the French doors. The latticed glass windows upstairs and the French doors below are also in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement. Yet somewhere in the 1930s, the facade of the house was updated to one of the prevailing style of the time; Streamline Moderne, as the balcony has three speed lines around it, which then run across the rest of the width of the facade. The balustrade of iron is also very Streamline Modern. The house's front fence is made to match them.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. This spacious stand alone residence, the largest and argueably the grandest in the street, would have been acquired by the latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a large retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a well established garden of Australian natives and exotics.