A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Travancore
Built in the 1920s, this pretty stylised white stuccoed brick Art Deco villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
This cottage style with its low slung tile roof in a mixture of shades, white stucco work, picked out brown and red feature bricks and rounded porch were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
This house has a beautiful garden with azaleas and a topiaried camelia covered in buds about to burst forth.
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 small residence was built on the lowest section of Travancore, which was the last portion of the suburb to be subdivided on what was formerly the mansion's old dairy.
A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Travancore
Built in the 1920s, this pretty stylised white stuccoed brick Art Deco villa can be found in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
This cottage style with its low slung tile roof in a mixture of shades, white stucco work, picked out brown and red feature bricks and rounded porch were very popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
This house has a beautiful garden with azaleas and a topiaried camelia covered in buds about to burst forth.
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 small residence was built on the lowest section of Travancore, which was the last portion of the suburb to be subdivided on what was formerly the mansion's old dairy.