White Metroland Art Deco Villa - Travancore
This wonderfully stylised "Metroland" Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore has a large street frontage, and would have been home to a medium sized family when first built.
Well proportioned, this stand alone villa has white stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the central porch. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. A thin decorative panel featuring two curls appear above each window. The black wrought-iron grille of curls enclosing the vestibule is very Spanish Mission in style.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and salvias and exotics, some of which have probably been growing in the garden since the house was first built in the early 1920s.
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 double brick residence would have been acquired by the former of these groups and is not as grand in size as some of its neighbours. Nonetheless, houses like these would have suited a medium sized family, and would still have required assistance from a full time servant and probably a "daily" woman to maintain.
White Metroland Art Deco Villa - Travancore
This wonderfully stylised "Metroland" Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore has a large street frontage, and would have been home to a medium sized family when first built.
Well proportioned, this stand alone villa has white stuccoed brick walls with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns along the interconnecting walls and around the central porch. It also features leadlight windows with a beautiful pattern picked out in frosted, bevilled and plain glass. A thin decorative panel featuring two curls appear above each window. The black wrought-iron grille of curls enclosing the vestibule is very Spanish Mission in style.
This house has a beautiful garden with any number of perenials including geraniums and salvias and exotics, some of which have probably been growing in the garden since the house was first built in the early 1920s.
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 double brick residence would have been acquired by the former of these groups and is not as grand in size as some of its neighbours. Nonetheless, houses like these would have suited a medium sized family, and would still have required assistance from a full time servant and probably a "daily" woman to maintain.