A Victorian Villa with an Arts and Crafts Facelift - Moonee Ponds
This beautiful double fronted Victorian villa of red brick built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds received a facelift in the early years of the Twentieth Century to modernise it.
Built in the 1880s or 1890s the formal double bay windows of this symmetrical villa which flank the central front door are very Victorian in spirit. However, in the early 1900s, the original verandah of corrugated iron and iron lacework was removed and replaced with a more modish Arts and Crafts wooden one that only spanned the entranceway, rather than the entire frontage of the villa. At the same time, the front windows, now exposed, were given new panes of Art Nouveau inspired stained glass. In spite of this amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it more unique than its neighbours which are both Queen Anne in style.
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. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Victorian family of moderate means, and would have required a live in maid-of-all work to help the family maintain it.
A Victorian Villa with an Arts and Crafts Facelift - Moonee Ponds
This beautiful double fronted Victorian villa of red brick built in a quiet, tree lined street in the Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds received a facelift in the early years of the Twentieth Century to modernise it.
Built in the 1880s or 1890s the formal double bay windows of this symmetrical villa which flank the central front door are very Victorian in spirit. However, in the early 1900s, the original verandah of corrugated iron and iron lacework was removed and replaced with a more modish Arts and Crafts wooden one that only spanned the entranceway, rather than the entire frontage of the villa. At the same time, the front windows, now exposed, were given new panes of Art Nouveau inspired stained glass. In spite of this amalgum of two very different styles, the house is quite charming, and its combination makes it more unique than its neighbours which are both Queen Anne in style.
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. Houses like these would have suited a medium sized Victorian family of moderate means, and would have required a live in maid-of-all work to help the family maintain it.