A Stylised Art Deco Villa - Moonee Ponds
This is a wonderfully stylised Art Deco 1920s villa on Eglington Street in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
Well proportioned, this neat, stand alone villa uses a mixture of facade treatments: red and brown brick banding, and stuccoed bricks painted in cream. The gable over the enclosed vestibule (which has now been converted into a small room with the inclusion of a matching stained glass window) has wonderful brick nogging on it. The villa also features pretty stained glass windows featuring geometric patterns.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and moderate wealth without undue showiness.
This villa features a cottage garden of camelias, roses and hydrangeas amongst other plants. It is all enclosed by its original stuccoed brick fence and metal gate.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens.
A Stylised Art Deco Villa - Moonee Ponds
This is a wonderfully stylised Art Deco 1920s villa on Eglington Street in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds.
Well proportioned, this neat, stand alone villa uses a mixture of facade treatments: red and brown brick banding, and stuccoed bricks painted in cream. The gable over the enclosed vestibule (which has now been converted into a small room with the inclusion of a matching stained glass window) has wonderful brick nogging on it. The villa also features pretty stained glass windows featuring geometric patterns.
This style of house would have appealed to the newly moneyed middle-classes who could finally afford to leave the inner city buy their own homes in the burgeoning suburbs. Comfortable and very English, it would have shown respectablity and moderate wealth without undue showiness.
This villa features a cottage garden of camelias, roses and hydrangeas amongst other plants. It is all enclosed by its original stuccoed brick fence and metal gate.
Moonee Ponds, like its neighbouring boroughs of Ascot Vale and Essendon, was etablished in the late 1880s and early 1890s. However, unlike its neighbours, it was an area of affluence and therefore only had middle-class, upper middle-class and some very wealthy citizens.