A Large Queen Anne Style Villa - Travancore
This grand Queen Anne style villa is built on a tree lined avenue in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the shingled barge board below the upper gable are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick with which to build the house. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the enclosed verandah. The wonderful stained glass windows with garlands of flowers and ribbons are obviously Art Nouveau influenced.
Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
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 latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a splendid garden of exotics, including roses and ornamental fruit trees.
A Large Queen Anne Style Villa - Travancore
This grand Queen Anne style villa is built on a tree lined avenue in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
Built between Federation (1901) and the Great War (1914), the shingled barge board below the upper gable are very Arts and Crafts inspired, as is the choice of red brick with which to build the house. The builder has shown his admiration for the Arts and Crafts movement by making the bricks real features in their design and layout across the enclosed verandah. The wonderful stained glass windows with garlands of flowers and ribbons are obviously Art Nouveau influenced.
Queen Anne style was most popular around the time of Federation. With complex roofline structures and undulating facades, many Queen Anne houses fell out of fashion at the beginning of the modern era, and were demolished.
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 latter of these groups. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Edwardian family, and would have required a retinue of servants to maintain.
The whole house, which has a large street frontage, is surrounded by a splendid garden of exotics, including roses and ornamental fruit trees.